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Rainer Maria Rilke: Stories of God
Rainer Maria Rilke – Stories of God, “A Story Told to the Dark” “The things we experience often cannot be expressed, and anyone who insists on telling them nevertheless, is bound to make mistakes…”
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a list of lists
15 lists in literature, listerature
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categorizing life
“Giving names to objects consists in moving immediate, unreflected, perhaps ignored events on to the plane of reflection and of the objective mind.” – Being and nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre (as quoted in Home: A Short History of an Idea) … Continue reading
Posted in art/architecture, history/memory, language, literature, science/math
Tagged radiolab, robots, sartre, witold rybczynski
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Joan Didion @ Aloud 11/16/11
in conversation with David Ulin @ The ex-Cathedral of St. Vibiana (now just Vibiana) UPDATE 11/18/11: watch (now you can check if I misquoted anything! and I can figure out what my various illegible notes said…) Notes: started with a … Continue reading
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Tagged aristophanic, didion
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declarations
I am Arturo Bandini I am Jack’s wasted life I am legend I am the walrus I am that I am I am I said Will I am call me Ishmael call me Al my name is Jonas my name … Continue reading
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