Re: What are you reading?
"The Swerve, How the World Became Modern" by Stephen Greenblatt
Describes the "discovery" in the 1500s of ancient pagan roman and greek texts - and specifically the rational humanist philosophy - and how those texts and that philosophy influenced the renaissance.
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"All this of Pot and Potter - Tell me then, Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?" Omar Khayyam
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