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categorizing life

Posted on July 18, 2012 by twotreatises

“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 →

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City Life

Posted on November 3, 2009 by twotreatises

by Witold Rybczynski Notes: Ch. 1 Why Aren’t Our Cities Like That? -leaders as architects: FDR (amateur) and Jefferson vs. Louis XIV -from the French: avenues = important diagonal streets; boulevards = broad promenades -“With very few exceptions… we have … Continue reading →

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How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen

Posted on September 14, 2008 by twotreatises

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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