Byline: Peter Taylor

Will Toledo, Roberto Bolaño, and Some Notes on Growing Up

A senior looks back on his time at Princeton, as it comes to an end.

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Moments of Dreams: Dawes in Six Albums and Seven Stories

“In my moments of dogged hope, I would play “Moon in the Water,” an acoustic ballad where Goldsmith proclaims that ‘Love is for the fighter / Born to lose but never quit / Swinging for the moon in the water.’”

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Peter Taylor ’22 Reflection

“I had made a positive impact on someone else; I had connected through my words to another mind, another person.”

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Telescoping Space

To telescope, we begin with 300 words, then slice the word count in half for each successive section. We stop when the numbers stop dividing evenly. Looking around and beyond us, this week we telescope “space.”

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Solutions of the Spirit: Art Under Climate Threat

Advocating for art and creativity despite despair about the environment.

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Nass Recommends

Praise for Islands by Bear’s Den.

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Perfect Songs

“The dead linger after their passing in the memories of those who knew them; this poem, however, lingers only on my hard drive, contextless and adrift in the sea of my thoughts and memories.”

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In Princeton with You

“Your clothes are spilling from their drawers / It seems I’d rather stay indoors / When I’m in Princeton with you.”

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Notes from Home

Writers reflect on the miasma of quarantine.

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Notebook of a Departure from an Adopted Home

“For two years I’ve liked to think that my Bolivian ID is more than just a conversation starter, that it grounds my daily life in my relationship to a country I for a time called my home.”

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Nass Recommends: A Guide to the Conscious Consumption of Content

Need a new book, show, or album? Look no further.

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“That Tender Infinity” : Or, Fifteen Vignettes on Love

“When I saw him again for the first time in nearly thirteen months, we chatted as though no time at all had passed, as though we were still standing there, waiting for the train to arrive.”

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