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Writer’s Block #49
Read more: Writer’s Block #49The Writer’s Block board is thrilled to share our 49th issue! We would like to thank all the writers for their wonderful contributions. The printed version will soon be available at PCH, but here is the online magazine. If you would like to see your work in the next issue, please see our Submission Guidelines for more…
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The ‘then leave’-Mentality and the Death of American Optimism
Read more: The ‘then leave’-Mentality and the Death of American OptimismWhalers, by J. M. W. Turner America, like any place on earth, is problem-riddled, and has been from the start. No matter where we claim that beginning to be; whether it’s the moment Pangea split open and the world unfurled into its current shape, ravenous magma regurgitating up out of cracked tectonic plates; or when…
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Can we communicate dreams?
Read more: Can we communicate dreams?Morris, R. C. (2013, July 26) I have always been a dreamer; both during the day with my teachers yelling at me to pay attention and during the night, where I fly through the sky or run from a herd of elephants. Frequently, I wake up and remember the dream, sometimes clearly ‘scene for scene’,…
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Expectations, List-making and New Beginnings.
Read more: Expectations, List-making and New Beginnings.Edward Hopper, Lee Shore, 1941 Now that we are getting deeper into winter, I am left with the same feeling as usual. I always feel like December is the nice part of winter. The season is still new, the first frosts are beautiful, Christmas and New Year are still ahead. By mid-January, things tone down…
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The Art of Categorizing Creation
Read more: The Art of Categorizing CreationDiagrams from Laurence Sterne representing “the lines I moved in through my first, second, third, and fourth volumes.” Part 1: Theory Section I, or Why This Article Has Two Parts, Four Sections, and an Intermission We have been dividing stories into chewable bites for as long as we’ve been telling them. Perhaps most famously with…



