Ron Richard Arriola
@coffeediem.bsky.social
SNHU - English Literature & Creative Writing.
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
—T. S. Eliot
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
—T. S. Eliot
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"It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it."
Anaïs Nin on how reading awakens us from the slumber of near-living www.themarginalian.org/2017/01/19/a...
Anaïs Nin on how reading awakens us from the slumber of near-living www.themarginalian.org/2017/01/19/a...
Anaïs Nin on How Reading Awakens Us from the Slumber of Almost-Living
“It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it.”
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November 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it."
Anaïs Nin on how reading awakens us from the slumber of near-living www.themarginalian.org/2017/01/19/a...
Anaïs Nin on how reading awakens us from the slumber of near-living www.themarginalian.org/2017/01/19/a...
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A beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world’s most influential and distinguished historians.
Peter Brown's Journeys of the Mind is now available in #paperback (6 Jan UK pub).
Order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Peter Brown's Journeys of the Mind is now available in #paperback (6 Jan UK pub).
Order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
November 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
A beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world’s most influential and distinguished historians.
Peter Brown's Journeys of the Mind is now available in #paperback (6 Jan UK pub).
Order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Peter Brown's Journeys of the Mind is now available in #paperback (6 Jan UK pub).
Order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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A stunning love poem to life at the horizon of death from Nobel laureate Louise Glück www.themarginalian.org/2020/10/11/l...
August 12, 2025 at 5:07 AM
A stunning love poem to life at the horizon of death from Nobel laureate Louise Glück www.themarginalian.org/2020/10/11/l...
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200 years of great artists and writers on the creative and spiritual rewards of gardening www.themarginalian.org/2022/05/07/w...
200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Gardening
Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Oliver Sacks, Rebecca Solnit, Bronson Alcott, Michael Pollan, Jamaica Kincaid, and more.
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May 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
200 years of great artists and writers on the creative and spiritual rewards of gardening www.themarginalian.org/2022/05/07/w...
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The great artist Ralph Steadman, who turns 89 today, illustrates Orwell's Animal Farm www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/25/a...
George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” Illustrated by Ralph Steadman
“I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.”
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May 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The great artist Ralph Steadman, who turns 89 today, illustrates Orwell's Animal Farm www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/25/a...
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Let Steinbeck show you how to break up with a false friend www.themarginalian.org/2016/03/18/j...
Steinbeck and the Difficult Art of the Friend Breakup
“I can’t consider you a friend when out of every contact there comes some intentionally wounding thing.”
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May 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Let Steinbeck show you how to break up with a false friend www.themarginalian.org/2016/03/18/j...
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Ever feel like you will never find your way out of the week? Happy Friday! Here's "Amaze," by Rob McClure. #litmag #poetry
penmenreview.com/amaze/
penmenreview.com/amaze/
Amaze
by Rob McClure Didn't mean to leave you lost in the corn mazeso long,didn't know the gown of moonlightcould come caress your candy-bonesand bathe you in milk cherry blood.Didn't mean to set the cornro...
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May 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Ever feel like you will never find your way out of the week? Happy Friday! Here's "Amaze," by Rob McClure. #litmag #poetry
penmenreview.com/amaze/
penmenreview.com/amaze/
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Adrienne Rich would have been 96 today. Her magnificent poem "Hubble Photographs: After Sappho" – a timeless meditation on love and our cosmic destiny – animated: www.themarginalian.org/2019/04/26/a...
Adrienne Rich’s Haunting Poem About Love and the Cosmic Perspective
“…equations letting sight pierce through time into liberations, lacerations of light and dust…”
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May 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Adrienne Rich would have been 96 today. Her magnificent poem "Hubble Photographs: After Sappho" – a timeless meditation on love and our cosmic destiny – animated: www.themarginalian.org/2019/04/26/a...
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Bunny & Tree – a tender illustrated parable about friendship and the improbable saviors who make our lives livable www.themarginalian.org/2023/07/11/b...
Bunny & Tree: A Tender Wordless Parable of Friendship and the Improbable Saviors That Make Life Livable
Traversing the landscape of life on the wings of trust.
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May 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Bunny & Tree – a tender illustrated parable about friendship and the improbable saviors who make our lives livable www.themarginalian.org/2023/07/11/b...
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"No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone.
The accidents happen, we’re not heroines,
they happen in our lives like car crashes,
books that change us, neighborhoods
we move into and come to love."
Adrienne Rich, who would have been 96 today, on life and love: www.themarginalian.org/2012/12/14/a...
The accidents happen, we’re not heroines,
they happen in our lives like car crashes,
books that change us, neighborhoods
we move into and come to love."
Adrienne Rich, who would have been 96 today, on life and love: www.themarginalian.org/2012/12/14/a...
Adrienne Rich on Love, Loss, Public vs. Private Happiness, and the Creative Process
“No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone. The accidents happen.”
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May 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
"No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone.
The accidents happen, we’re not heroines,
they happen in our lives like car crashes,
books that change us, neighborhoods
we move into and come to love."
Adrienne Rich, who would have been 96 today, on life and love: www.themarginalian.org/2012/12/14/a...
The accidents happen, we’re not heroines,
they happen in our lives like car crashes,
books that change us, neighborhoods
we move into and come to love."
Adrienne Rich, who would have been 96 today, on life and love: www.themarginalian.org/2012/12/14/a...
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In two decades of doing what I do, it has been my ongoing lamentation to see works of enduring beauty and substance perish out of print. Because the most valiant way to complain is to create, introducing Marginalian Editions
Introducing Marginalian Editions: Extraordinary Forgotten Books Brought Back to Life
I have become a person on the pages and in the margins of books. In nearly two decades of reckoning with my reading in writing, it has been my ongoing lamentation to see works of enduring beauty an…
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April 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In two decades of doing what I do, it has been my ongoing lamentation to see works of enduring beauty and substance perish out of print. Because the most valiant way to complain is to create, introducing Marginalian Editions
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April 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Tired of having algorithms divine what you care about, decide what you see, and distract you with ads? Try the Marginalian newsletter — the week’s most inspiring and nourishing reads, free, ad-free, algorithm-free, entirely human, made of feeling and time since 2006: themarginalian.org/newsletter
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The art of befriending time and change — Debbie Millman's illustrated love letter to gardening as a portal to self-discovery www.themarginalian.org/2025/04/25/l...
April 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The art of befriending time and change — Debbie Millman's illustrated love letter to gardening as a portal to self-discovery www.themarginalian.org/2025/04/25/l...
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Love and limerence – the forgotten pioneer Dorothy Tennov's revelatory research into the confusions of the heart www.themarginalian.org/2021/11/25/l...
Love and Limerence: The Forgotten Psychologist Dorothy Tennov’s Revelatory Research into the Confusions of Bonding
“It may not be in contemplation of outer space that the greatest discoveries and explorations of the coming centuries will occur, but in our finally deciding to heed the dictum of self-unders…
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April 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Love and limerence – the forgotten pioneer Dorothy Tennov's revelatory research into the confusions of the heart www.themarginalian.org/2021/11/25/l...
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The half room of living and loving www.themarginalian.org/2025/03/21/h...
The Half Room of Living and Loving
When I can’t sleep, I read children’s books. One night, I discovered In the Half Room (public library) by Carson Ellis in my tsundoku — an impressionistic invitation into a world …
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April 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The half room of living and loving www.themarginalian.org/2025/03/21/h...
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SAVE THE DATE for the next Professor of #poetry lecture by A.E. Stallings.
'Repetition is a Form of Change: An Oblique Strategy in Poetry'
📆9 May 2025 at 5.30pm
📍Examination Schools, Oxford
No booking required. This is a public lecture and all are welcome!
#poetrycommunity #poetrysky
'Repetition is a Form of Change: An Oblique Strategy in Poetry'
📆9 May 2025 at 5.30pm
📍Examination Schools, Oxford
No booking required. This is a public lecture and all are welcome!
#poetrycommunity #poetrysky
April 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
SAVE THE DATE for the next Professor of #poetry lecture by A.E. Stallings.
'Repetition is a Form of Change: An Oblique Strategy in Poetry'
📆9 May 2025 at 5.30pm
📍Examination Schools, Oxford
No booking required. This is a public lecture and all are welcome!
#poetrycommunity #poetrysky
'Repetition is a Form of Change: An Oblique Strategy in Poetry'
📆9 May 2025 at 5.30pm
📍Examination Schools, Oxford
No booking required. This is a public lecture and all are welcome!
#poetrycommunity #poetrysky
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Work alone – Hemingway's short, superb Nobel Prize acceptance speech www.themarginalian.org/2013/03/21/e...
Work Alone: Ernest Hemingway’s 1954 Nobel Acceptance Speech
“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.”
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April 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Work alone – Hemingway's short, superb Nobel Prize acceptance speech www.themarginalian.org/2013/03/21/e...
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The daily routines of great writers www.themarginalian.org/2012/11/20/d...
The Daily Routines of Great Writers
“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.”
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April 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
The daily routines of great writers www.themarginalian.org/2012/11/20/d...
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'He tried his best to use his prominent position to hold power to account.'
Prof Celia Deane-Drummond highlights three ways Pope Francis influenced the global climate movement ⬇️
#OxfordClimate
Prof Celia Deane-Drummond highlights three ways Pope Francis influenced the global climate movement ⬇️
#OxfordClimate
Three ways Pope Francis influenced the global climate movement
At the centre of the social and ecological polycrisis is a religious crisis of the human heart.
theconversation.com
April 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM
'He tried his best to use his prominent position to hold power to account.'
Prof Celia Deane-Drummond highlights three ways Pope Francis influenced the global climate movement ⬇️
#OxfordClimate
Prof Celia Deane-Drummond highlights three ways Pope Francis influenced the global climate movement ⬇️
#OxfordClimate
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Quantum pioneer Neils Bohr on subjective vs. objective reality and the uses of religion in a secular world www.themarginalian.org/2018/02/01/n...
Nobel-Winning Physicist Niels Bohr on Subjective vs. Objective Reality and the Uses of Religion in a Secular World
“The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer. But that does n…
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April 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Quantum pioneer Neils Bohr on subjective vs. objective reality and the uses of religion in a secular world www.themarginalian.org/2018/02/01/n...
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If You Come to Earth – a tender illustrated celebration of the myriad ways to be human and what makes our planet a miraculous world www.themarginalian.org/2020/12/05/i... #EarthDay
If You Come to Earth: A Tender Illustrated Celebration of the Many Ways to Be Human and What Makes Our Miraculous Planet a World
A humanistic love letter to who and what we are, together on this lonesome, wild, and wondrous rock adrift around a common star.
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April 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
If You Come to Earth – a tender illustrated celebration of the myriad ways to be human and what makes our planet a miraculous world www.themarginalian.org/2020/12/05/i... #EarthDay
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Myths, facts, and poetic truth – Amy Lowell (one of the most underestimated geniuses of the past century) on legends as a lens on our limitations and our powers www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/30/a...
Myths, Facts, and Poetic Truth: Amy Lowell on Legends as a Lens on Our Elemental Limitations and Powers
“Legends… are bits of fact, or guesses at fact, pressed into the form of a story and flung out into the world as markers of how much ground has been travelled.”
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April 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Myths, facts, and poetic truth – Amy Lowell (one of the most underestimated geniuses of the past century) on legends as a lens on our limitations and our powers www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/30/a...
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Sundogs and the sacred geometry of wonder – the fascinating science of the atmospheric phenomenon that inspired Hilma af Klint www.themarginalian.org/2023/05/17/h...
Sundogs and the Sacred Geometry of Wonder: The Science of the Atmospheric Phenomenon That Inspired Hilma af Klint
Notes on the eternal dialogue between art and science in our yearning to know reality.
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April 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Sundogs and the sacred geometry of wonder – the fascinating science of the atmospheric phenomenon that inspired Hilma af Klint www.themarginalian.org/2023/05/17/h...
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"Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life."
Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell on how to grow old: www.themarginalian.org/2018/07/03/h...
Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell on how to grow old: www.themarginalian.org/2018/07/03/h...
How to Grow Old: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life
“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.”
www.themarginalian.org
April 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
"Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life."
Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell on how to grow old: www.themarginalian.org/2018/07/03/h...
Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell on how to grow old: www.themarginalian.org/2018/07/03/h...
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The Peace of Wild Things – Wendell Berry's poetic antidote to despair, animated www.themarginalian.org/2021/03/12/w...
The Peace of Wild Things: Wendell Berry’s Poetic Antidote to Despair, Animated
On where to seek refuge from the forethought of grief.
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April 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The Peace of Wild Things – Wendell Berry's poetic antidote to despair, animated www.themarginalian.org/2021/03/12/w...