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  • monet’s cathedrals--12/6
    on December 6, 2024 at 7:02 am

    Today's selection--from Monet by Jackie Wullschläger. For Claude Monet, painting his famed series of the Rouen Cathedral was “long, hard work”: “‘To think that I abandon everything, you, my garden, to work eleven hours a day, it's killing,’ Monet wrote to Alice from Rouen. But not to paint was worse. Before and after the wedding, Monet's refrain was, ‘I think only about my cathedrals.’ In early 1893 he was back in the city, in new […]

  • A linkless internet
    by Collin Jennings on December 6, 2024 at 11:00 am

    In creating anonymous summaries, AI flattens out all the fascinating architecture of thought that makes the internet hum - by Collin Jennings Read at Aeon