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Watson, Peter (2005). Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud, 171. Story behind the Passage There are books that you can easily read in a few hours. And then there are books which take more time to read — so much that you might never actually complete them. Every page is so dense that…

Poem Maya Angelou’s SuperSoul Sunday — Part 2 (ca. 24:40) In Peter Modler’s book Das Arroganzprinzip (“The Arrogance Principle”), which we read in my Storytelling AG this week, one finds the following line: “Da ich pragmatisch vorgehe, scheue ich mich auch nicht vor vereinfachten Aussagen“ (19). This is what every person in the business world learns — pragmatism. And I…

Nice Little Penguins. “Flying.” LyricFind Story behind the Passage All the way during my run this morning, I had this song in my ear. It was not despite the run, it was because of the run. If you run for so many years, I mean, in total, you go through different phases of running and…

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (2005/1855). Die Leiden des jungen Werther, 10–11. Story behind the Passage Yesterday, I started getting deeper into Goethe. What I mean by that is that I really started studying him, not just on the surface like before. What differentiates “deeper” and “on the surface” for “normal” people, I do not know. For…

Do What You Can to Help, for Allah Will Ask What You Did Not How Much… | Amaliah Story behind the Passage Today in a conversation with a very wise, kind, and strong man, I learned about this story above. It touched me deeply, just like everything else he said. There were so many sentences which…

Walbank, Frank. W. Polybius: Greek Historian. Story behind the Passage Maybe it is because I am currently reading St. Augustine’s Confessions or maybe these days are simply so extraordinarily transformational that they trigger strong and clear emotions. It does not really matter why exactly this topic has come up now but insights are always related…

Kunze, Michael, and Michael Reinecke. Aufrecht geh’n. Musixmatch Story behind the Passage Today after visiting the cemetery, on my way back to the car, I heard the death bell ring. A funeral was just coming to an end. I paused for a minute to commemorate whoever was just finding his/her final resting place a few…

Moretti, Franco (2007). Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History, 70. Story behind the Passage Today, just a few minutes ago, I wrote a beautiful text for today’s post. It was about how I planted a mini tree in the garden today, a a red current bush. And I wrote about how much that made…