I wish to bring five graduate students to Yosemite to read a set of texts, namely the ethics/aesthetics of Immanuel Kant and a set of essays from Walter Benjamin's Illuminations, particularly the essay, The Storyteller which links changes in nature to the rise of the novel: "One must image the transformation of epic forms occurring in rhythms comparable to those of the change that has come over the earth's surface in the course of thousands of centuries."

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