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[Carel Willink, Statue at Pleasure Chateau (1935), oil on canvas, © 2023, Estate of the artist] Recently I received for review a recent edition of On the Marble Cliffs by Ernst Jünger. On the cover is a painting by an artist I know relatively well, yet have barely written about. It prompted this article, which is about the Magic Realism of Carel Willink (1900-1983), which is due for wider appreciation in the anglophone world.

Shortly before he died, the astronomer Carl Sagan (1934-1996) offered a two-part warning in an interview with Charlie Rose. The first part of Sagan’s warning touched on humanity’s growing ignorance of science, which Sagan attributed largely to the failure of modern schools. Sagan saw this as a clear danger to humanity, especially in a society built on science and technology. "We've arranged a society on science and technology in which nobody understands anything about science and technology, and this combustible mixture of ignorance and power sooner or later is going to blow up in our faces,"

Hey, you met me on my 4th lap and gave me a Caffeinated Vanilla Gu, it and you were lifesavers, thanks for the encouragement. I was on pace to finish however there was a cutoff 5 miles out that I missed by 5 minutes, one of the volunteers stopped me to tell me and when she did my lower body seized up and I just couldn't get it back!! It was all good, I finished which is what I came to do.

Maybe only second to my fried chicken sandwiches, this meal is my husband and father’s favorite thing I make. They are my consummate taste testers. It’s outrageously delicious and surprisingly easy. I homemake the beans and pico de gallo. But you don’t have to! I’m giving you the full recipe for all of it, but you choose what you want to make from scratch and what you want to buy at the store or in a can.

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Caroline (née Gotschall) Calloway recently announced she was leaving her tableaux in the West Village in a series of since-deleted TikToks. If you’re not familiar with Caroline, I’m not even sure where to begin, and I’m also envious of you. I’ll try to make this quick, for those of you who aren’t as chronically online as I am: Caroline got her start as a quirky early “influencer” who chronicled her experience as an American girl at Cambridge University in the form of long, flowery Instagram captions.

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Carolyn Bryant Donham died on Wednesday, age 88. Donham played a pivotal role in one of America’s most enduring and symbolic tragedies: the murder of Emmett Till.   You know the story: a 14-year-old Black boy from Chicago comes to visit his rural Mississippi cousins for the summer. One afternoon, Emmett Till and his companions stop into a small grocery store. Words are exchanged with the young white woman behind the counter; perhaps, Till wolf-whistles at her.

Do you read what Steve Schmidt writes in "The Warning" via substack? It's frighteningly on target as are the discussions among subscribers and goes well with this. Which goes well with learning Angela Davis had an ancestor on the Mayflower. ("Finding Your Roots" 2/21) I digress. They seem to be groomers, those who are to die off. How are they doing so? Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmijlZ7BqbfNop6hrF6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6cmKusn6S7brvLnWSpnZWlwA%3D%3D