Edgar Allan Poe, from Tamerlane & Other Poems of E. A. P.; “The Sleeper,”

Alfred Tennyson, from "Mechanophilus"

— Will Rees, “Kafka the hypochondriac”

— Khalil Gibran; Sand and Foam (1926)

A man offers prayer on a stone in the fast flowing river Swat.

Photographer: Herb Slodounik

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

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Friedrich Nietzsche, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra“, originally published 1873

Gif Illustration: Passenger side

Georges Perec, A Man Asleep, 1967 (translated from the French by Andrew Leak)

Jonice Webb, Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect

Andrew Garfield on losing his mother, The Believer