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Author: Matthew Battles

Part of the founding HILOBROW crew, Matthew Battles is a maker and thinker whose work merges literary, scholarly, and artistic forms of inquiry. His writing on the cultural dimensions of science and technology has appeared in such venues as The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, and Orion. His most recent book,Tree, was published in Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series in 2017. After ten years exploring the dark abundance of libraries and museums with metaLAB (at) Harvard, Matthew now edits Arnoldia: the Nature of Trees, the magazine of the Arnold Arboretum.

VURT YOUR ENTHUSIASM (15)

By: Matthew Battles

Larry Niven’s THE INTEGRAL TREES

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BESTIARY (5)

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They come from over the horizon.

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BESTIARY (INTRO)

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Animals come to us “as messengers and promises.” Of what?

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BESTIARY (1)

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Today’s map of the rhinoceros is broken.

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The Scarlet Plague (Intro)

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Introduction to our 2012 edition of Jack London’s sci-fi novel.

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#SQUADGOALS (22)

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THE ANIMAL FAMILY

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Hermenautic Tarot (23)

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Matthew Battles on ADUMBRATION

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Kern Your Enthusiasm (1)

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Matthew Battles on ALDINE ITALIC

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Encounter

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He appealed to the bright canoe.

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Faces

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Of evolution and SEO.

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Parenthetical Celebration

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Abraham Lincoln & Charles Darwin, bracketed.

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Voyager ex voto

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In the long run, the bottle tells more than the message.

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Resistant Objects

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The inner lives of things.

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The Slow Build

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Liking patience in the cinema.

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Coming and Going

By: Matthew Battles

At 3000 posts, HiLobrow is as indefatigable as Nellie Bly.

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