Exoplanet revealed to be nothing but a large cloud of dust.
A Dance to the Music of Time, by Nicolas Poussin, c. 1635. Wallace Collection, London.
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In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer wrote, “Four o’ the clock it was, to make a guess; / Eleven foot long, or little more or less, / My shadow was, as at that time and place, / Measuring feet by taking in this case / My height as six.”
In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798Lapham’s
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Peter Fritzsche
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich. More