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The visual image of the "deep red peony of nineteen" contrasts sharply with the reunion of the septuagenarians. Paradoxically, this highlights the depth of an essential love and longing that has remained unweathered by the passage of...

of fifty years into the mundane expression of "merely a brief visit to a relative's house." By doing so, he paradoxically highlights how absurd and futile that long period of disconnection truly is. The speaker’s hesitation at the end...

no-thing-ness). You are the Primordial Emptiness (beyond distinctions, labels, stories and descriptions) which paradoxically is the fullness appearing as ‘everything’. You are the field of limitless potential, the ground in which all...

times by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's cabinet to a degree that makes my teeth grind with rage. Paradoxically, because of this, there is very little left that truly terrifies me, and I am entirely daunted. I will close...