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“The myths and folklore of many premodern cultures have explanatory or at least mnemonic value. In stories that everyone can appreciate and even witness, they encode the environment.” – Carl Sagan, “The Demon-Haunted World” Here, Sagan is engaging in a critique of modern intellectual habits by reflecting on the purpose of ancient myth. He’s saying…
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The art of the essay is a practice much like medicine and law. There are no predefined rules besides conventions of grammar holding together your thoughtforms, what we call words. Every time we set ourselves to composing a work of writing, we must consider it as an experiment. Each time you set yourself to putting…