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How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen
phrases I liked: in “My Father’s Brain”: the brain as “lovely and postmodern” p. 10 “medicalization of human experience” p. 19 “ever-expanding nomenclature of victimhood”p. 19 “My sense of private selfhood turns out to have been illusory” p. 20 “the … Continue reading
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Pyrrhic victory = a victory with devastating cost to the victor; takes its name from King Pyrrhus, whose army suffered irreplaceable casualties when he defeated the Romans during the Pyrrhic War in 280/279 B.C.; (referred to in Joyce’s Ulysses) Gordian … Continue reading