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    Berfrois

    berfrois.com · Publication · on HN since 2010

    Berfrois is a literary and cultural magazine publishing essays on philosophy, poetry, literature, and ideas.

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    What HN says

    No comments were given, so there is no stated opinion; HN links it for essays on literature, philosophy, and writers like Woolf and Orwell.

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    29HN people shared it
    31linked in comments
    462story points
    2025last shared

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      The Principles of Newspeak (1949)
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      Letter to a young poet by Virginia Woolf (1932)
      1 person · 31 points · first shared 2019 · 10 comments on HN
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      The Poet, the Physician and the Birth of the Modern Vampire
      1 person · 23 points · first shared 2015 · 2 comments on HN
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      1 person · 22 points · first shared 2022 · 1 comments on HN
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      1 person · 12 points · first shared 2018 · Discussion on HN
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