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Say we spend our last moments staring at each other, hands knotted together, clutching the dog, watching the sky burn. —Ada Limón, newly elected Academy Chancellor poets.org/poem/condition…

Friday 1/17 is the deadline for our Women@MIT Fellowship proposals. Have an idea for sharing our Women@MIT collections in informative and engaging ways? Apply now! ow.ly/h0PT50UGg3O #WomenInSTEM

3. J. R. R. Tolkien's letter from Aragorn to Sam Gamgee, in which the King of Gondor informs the hobbit of his future visit and expresses his desire to "greet all his friends." This handwritten letter, penned in Sindarin Tengwar, was created as an epilogue to The Lord of the

"Some thoughts are just more interesting than others. I’ll have an idea to go get a cup of coffee, for instance. Or for a scene in a film. Or for making a chair. This is why daydreaming is so important to me. All the thoughts just flow."—David Lynch Good night David Lynch.

Born #onthisday in Dublin in 1882, James Augustine Aloysius Joyce. Celebrate with a listen to him reading his very own work (excerpts from Ulysses and Finnegans Wake) in two rare recordings from the 1920s: buff.ly/31kl75l #otd

Libraries are good for you, and research agrees. lithub.com/its-official-r…

Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important. —Baldwin

On this day, 65 years ago, Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita " (1960) premiered in Rome, Italy

MIT MLK Jr. celebration luncheon. The MIT community gathers annually to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Mark your calendars! 🗓️ Thurs. Feb. 20 🕚 11:00 AM–1:30 PM 📍 Location: Walker Memorial, 142 Memorial Drive mitsha.re/qh5a50UTflY @MITStudents

“One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience… Storytelling is a tool for knowing who we are and what we want.” An Ursula K. Le Guin gem themarginalian.org/2018/01/30/urs…

Edgar Allan Poe was big into code cracking. He once challenged readers of a Philadelphia paper to stump him with coded messages, deciphering dozens before having to “swear off” cryptograms forever. More on how code factors into his stories here: buff.ly/2OByWXF

Happy birthday to two sages, Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde! Dreaming new worlds with you 🪐 Here’s Toni at home in upstate New York in the 1980s, and Audre at a cafe in Berlin in 1992 🎈

This week's edition of SHASS Weekly features the SHASS Faculty Fellows, American attitudes on global policies, movement's pedagogical possibilities, and more. mailchi.mp/mit/shass-week… mit philosophy LIT@MIT MITPoliticalScience MIT STS Program MIT Anthropology

In "Opening the doors of perception: Perspectives on SHASS," MIT alum Peter Godart, LIT@MIT professor Mary Fuller, and second-year MITPoliticalScience major Siddhu Pachipala discuss SHASS's value. MIT Alumni youtu.be/tpmzBrhgIFI

.LIT@MIT professor Eugenie Brinkema reviews the latest Anselm Kiefer installation for Art in America. "How brave, then, of the Van Gogh and the Stedelijk to organize their show around none of these old stories," she says. artnews.com/art-in-america…

MIT students: Create an important impact with your Kelly-Douglas-funded travel. These fellowships offer opportunities to pursue independent projects or collaborate in humanitarian projects. Apply before the 4/13 deadline. bit.ly/3Yo3aAI #MITSHASS #travel

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, —Emily Dickinson poets.org/poem/hope-thin… Happy Poem in Your Pocket Day! Share a poem using #PocketPoem

Today we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of “The Great Gatsby.” Since April 10, 1925 this American classic has been read and reread by generations across the globe. The Library of Congress Rare Books Division has a first edition. blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/20…

Haunting century-old art for fairy-poems by Dorothy Lathrop, born on this day in 1891 – the first person to win the Caldecott Medal (the Nobel Prize of children's book illustration) themarginalian.org/2021/03/09/dor…

I find myself most alone  When I believe I am striving for glory. —Tracy K. Smith, Academy Chancellor, born #OTD in 1972 poets.org/poem/everybody…