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If a point is reached in understanding that blueberries are more than blue, and certainly more than berries
what is food? what is fruit, actually? and how much does the animal understand? how much does the noble understand?
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The Life You Give: Robin Williams *VII 21 1951
Robin Williams, born Robin McLaurin Williams, July 21, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., is the comedian and actor known for his manic stand-up routines and his diverse film performances. He won an Academy Award for his role in Good Will Hunting (1997). Williams’s father, Robert, was an executive for the Ford Motor Company, and his…
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The Life You Give: Ernest Hemingway *VII 21 1899
Ernest Hemingway, born Ernest Miller Hemingway, July 21, 1899, in Cicero [now in Oak Park], Illinois, U.S.A., is the novelist and short-story writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He was noted both for the intense masculinity of his writing and for his adventurous and widely publicized life. His succinct and lucid prose…
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The Life You Give: Pinchas Zukerman *VII 16 1948
Pinchas Zukerman, born July 16, 1948, in Tel Aviv, Israel, is the violinist, violist, and conductor who earned widespread acclaim in a career that spanned more than five decades. Zukerman began playing at about the age of seven; when he was eight he entered the Tel Aviv Academy of Music. In 1962, sponsored by violinist…
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The Life You Give: Walter Benjamin * VII 15 1892
Walter Benjamin, born July 15, 1892, in Berlin, Germany, is the man of letters and aesthetician, now considered to have been the most important German literary critic in the first half of the 20th century. Born into a prosperous Jewish family, Benjamin studied philosophy in Berlin, Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich, and Bern. He settled in…
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