5/20/2023 0 Comments Popova figuring![]() Her aim is to answer questions that “raze to the bone of life”, including the most profound of all: “How, in this blink of existence bookended by nothingness, do we attain completeness of being?” ![]() Popova’s unique act of “figuring” in this book is to create resonances and synchronicities between the lives of visionary figures. Her approach subverts the idea that lives “unfold in sensical narratives”. ![]() It interweaves the “invisible connections” between pioneering scientists, artists and writers – many of them gay women – to create a richly patterned tapestry of ideas and biographies. Her first book is also a highly original survey of life, love and creativity an intellectual odyssey that challenges easy categorisation. ![]() “W e spend our lives trying to discern where we end and the rest of the world begins.” Maria Popova is best known for her insightful and eclectic website Brain Pickings, an exploration of what she reads and “a record of my own becoming as a person”. ![]()
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