“Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river,” Borges wrote in his timeless “refutation” of time. “No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only…

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02.06.2025

The One Hundred Milliseconds Between the World and You: Oliver Sacks on Perception – The Marginalian

“If the doors of perception were cleansed,” William Blake wrote, “everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” But we are finite creatures, in time and in space, and …

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04.06.2025

Mushrooms and Our Search for Meaning – The Marginalian

This essay was originally published as the cover story in the Summer 2025 issue of Orion Magazine. “Who are you?” the caterpillar barks at Alice from atop the giant mushroom, and Alice, never quite…

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05.06.2025

The Majesty of Mountains and the Mountains of the Mind – The Marginalian

Mountains are some of our best metaphors for the mind and for the spirit, but they are also living entities, sovereign and staggering. I remember the first time I saw a mountain from an airplane &#…

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Imagine Water Otherwise: Robert Macfarlane on the Personhood of Rivers and the Meaning of Aliveness – The Marginalian

The One Hundred Milliseconds Between the World and You: Oliver Sacks on Perception – The Marginalian

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The Majesty of Mountains and the Mountains of the Mind – The Marginalian

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