Essential Reads
From the Honors Blog
holding on, letting go
back and forth i go My heart has become sore; it yearns for a rest, but i can barely take a breath anymore There’s a flame in my chest, crawling up my throat and drying out all the words. Is this really what I was made for? the words ring hollow and i try to…
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19th Century Poetry
19th Century Poetry Journal of Nathaniel Faust, Paranormal Investigator and Occult Scientist (must use contemporary terms, so they don’t get suspicious) 25 Apr 1882 It’s odd: I find myself writing this testament, even though I swear I’ve read it already. I found it buried in a box of records from the Resolute Sect’s outsourcing…
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The Elgin Marbles: Art, Empire, and the Yearning for Return
In the early nineteenth century, Thomas Bruce, the 7th Earl of Elgin, removed roughly half of the surviving sculptural decoration from the Parthenon in Athens and shipped it to Britain. Today, those sculptures sit in the British Museum. Greece has been asking for them back for over forty years. The sculptures themselves are extraordinary. Carved…
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