DIMIR

Most of the time I write and read, reasearch and then pretend to be social. I'm a first year MFA student in the Creative Writing program at Temple University.

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Pythagoras, the Pythagoreans, and Plato

Hidden from the eyes of history and philosophy, the Pythagoreans are the people who inspired Plato. They came up with and proposed most of the ideas that we attribute Continue »

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  Sylvia Plath: Her Life and Importance to American Literature and History

  6 months ago

  Sylvia Plath is sadly remembered more for her suicide than her body of work as a poet. What people seem to miss is that Plath changed an entire hemisphere of readers and writers, influencing many of the top thinkers today. What was this woman's history, so misunderstood for her mental instability...

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  Why Inception is Just Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Republic VII

  10 years ago

  Inception hit the box offices like a fighter just out of anger management, and yet, a few viewers were not so stunned by the "greatest plot of all time." Why? Because it was written before by a great man you might know: Plato. In his Allegory of the Cave, an eerily odd string of similarities...