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The Swerve
by Stephen Greenblatt
How a book hunter found Lucretius in a German monastery in 1417 and helped launch the modern world. Pulitzer-winning intellectual adventure.
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you want the story of how an idea came back.
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you want Lucretius himself.
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Three things you will actually use
- Ideas survive by luck.
- Books change worlds.
- Hunt for what was lost.
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