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From the Inquisition to the voting booth to the human heart In 1799, Francisco Goya etched a man asleep at his desk, head buried in his arms, while owls and bats swarm out of the darkness behind him. Below it he scratched a caption: El sueño de la razón produce monstruos. In Spanish, sueño means both sleep and…
A Brief Tribute to America’s Halloween and Barcelona’s Castanyada (5 min read) Why We Reach for the Dark This morning, a timely New York Times article asked a question: Why is every book Gothic now? Deirdre Coyle’s answer wanders through crumbling manors, family secrets, and a governess trapped in a gloomy mansion in the twenty-second century. The…