Music speaks louder than words through what it leaves unsaid

The ineffable in music resides in the gap between saying and not saying. Music neither states nor conceals. It hints

by Elena Gigante

https://psyche.co/ideas/music-speaks-louder-than-words-through-what-it-leaves-unsaid?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7a7b166988-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_05_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972

Music at PG:
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How Virginia Woolf broke the rules of storytelling | David Epstein

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fv6bTqIIHPA

Woolf at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89

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Guide to the classics: ‘all for one, and one for all’ – the enduring appeal of The Three Musketeers

by Darius von Guttner Sporzynski

https://theconversation.com/guide-to-the-classics-all-for-one-and-one-for-all-the-enduring-appeal-of-the-three-musketeers-279455

All available editions (in several languages) of The Three Musketers are available at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1257
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13951
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56054
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58211
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40169
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37885
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60641

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The History Of New York’s Tenements, The City’s Run-Down Housing For Millions Of Impoverished Immigrants In The Early 20th Century

By Elisabeth Sherman

For decades, millions of people lived in New York City's tenements — which were notoriously cramped, dark, poorly maintained, and often became hotbeds of disease.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/new-york-tenements

Tenement in Brooklyn, NY, 1890

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Galileo’s handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text

Discovery sheds new light on how famed astronomer came to lead a scientific revolution

By Joshua Sokol

https://www.science.org/content/article/galileo-s-handwritten-notes-found-ancient-astronomy-text

Galileo at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1629

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A New Language: On Primo Levi’s Translation of Kafka

Maïa Hruska Considers the Act of Writing and Translating After Auschwitz

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Books by Kafka (including Metamorphosis) at PG:
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The Cherokee Bible, one of the language’s first books, is a window between worldviews

By Margaret Bender and Tom Belt

https://theconversation.com/the-cherokee-bible-one-of-the-languages-first-books-is-a-window-between-worldviews-271717

Books about Cherokee Indians -- History at PG:
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A.A. Milne's crossword-puzzle heart in the Hundred Acre Wood

A hundred years of Winnie-the-Pooh

by Henry Oliver

https://www.commonreader.co.uk/p/aa-milnes-crossword-puzzle-heart

Winnie-the-Pooh (illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard) at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098

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