The Tempest
1611 · 259 pages
Prospero raises a storm to strand the men who stole his dukedom on an island where a spirit and a monster obey him. What he does with that power reads as Shakespeare's farewell.
★ 8.6
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The Enneads
270 · 558 pages
Everything pours out of one source Plotinus calls the One, which is beyond words. Mind, soul, and matter follow from it, and a soul can climb back. Christian mysticism was built on this.
★ 7.3
Discourse on Method
1637 · 207 pages
Good sense is the most equally distributed thing in the world, Descartes begins, then shows how to use it: doubt all you can, divide each problem, and rebuild only on what survives.
★ 7.1