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Philosopher

Lucretius

Roman poet whose On the Nature of Things set out Epicurus's atomism: nothing comes from nothing, and nothing is destroyed into nothing. One essay so far.

Essays
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Death as the way life continues in The Fountain

Three men chase the same tree across the centuries. Aronofsky’s answer to the oldest story we tell is that death is how life continues.
Jan 2023