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  • Federico or a manifesto on the ethics of description

    January 20, 2026

    If I speak – If in this minute, I prise open the spines of old texts and extract the root Mirror it ten-fold to consequence and stymy it in time – have I caught history? Like one might catch a cold? Is it upon me, the malign epic, the stentorian saga? By my naming do…

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