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CRITIC AT LARGE
"Man loves company, even if only that of a small burning candle," wrote Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-99), the Göttingen polymath whose aphorisms fixed the form in classical German literature.
Who but a lonely scholar would close the thought on such an image? When we think of the ilk before the age of electricity, isolation...
A Hunched Back, a Searching Heart, and a Fiery Wit
By CARLIN ROMANO"Man loves company, even if only that of a small burning candle," wrote Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-99), the Göttingen polymath whose aphorisms fixed the form in classical German literature.
Who but a lonely scholar would close the thought on such an image? When we think of the ilk before the age of electricity, isolation...
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