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    How to Collapse the Distinction Between Art and Biology

    • By Ed Simon
    What Xenotext does is cause its audience to reevaluate their ideas of creation, both literary and biological.Illustration by GiroScience / Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Language,” the Beat writer William S. Burroughs supposedly once exclaimed, “is a virus from outer space.” Burroughs was making a metaphorical extrapolation […]
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    Can PTSD Be Good for You?

    • By Brian Gallagher
    There’s no way to be sure what will traumatize someone, and not everyone exposed to “trauma” develops PTSD.
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    Does Science Diminish Wonder or Augment It?

    • By Nina Martyris
    In its pursuit of explaining things that previously seemed beyond words, does reason stifle the imagination? Can rationalism coexist with a reverence for mystery? Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Two great poems with opposing views, composed over 200 years apart—“Lamia” by John Keats and “Water” by Philip Larkin—address these […]
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