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I really enjoy short pieces of writing. “Short” is of course relative, it could be a short story, a short poem, a short novel, or a short article. Below you can find some recommendations based on what I have been reading recently. Hope you enjoy them too!
- Roger Ebert. Review of "Being There" (1979). (link)
- Dante Alighieri. De Vulgari Eloquentia.
- Marcus Aurelius. Meditations 4.3.4. ("ὁ κόσμος ἀλλοίωσις, ὁ βίος ὑπόληψις"; translation)
- W. B. Yeats. The Lake Isle of Innisfree.
- John von Neumann. The Computer and the Brain.
- Greek Anthology. Book VII: Sepulchral Epigrams. (Epigram 670 in particular.)
- Warren S. McCulloch. What is a Number, that a Man May Know it, and a Man, that He May Know a Number?
- Salvatore Quasimodo. Lirici Greci.
- John F. Nash. Equilibrium Points in N-Person Games.
- Jorge Luis Borges. An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain.
- Junichiro Tanizaki. In Praise of Shadows.
- Luigi Pirandello. Con Altri Occhi.
- M. R. James. Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You.