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(I find myself thinking of Terry Eagleton’s assertion that “capitalism plunders the sensuality of the body.”)
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
anything could mean anything; an author’s intent did not matter, could not in fact be discerned; there was no such thing as an obvious or commonsense reading, because everything had an infinitude of meanings. In short, there was no such thing as truth.
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
(I find myself thinking of Terry Eagleton’s assertion that “capitalism plunders the sensuality of the body.”)
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Aesthetic populism – Jameson, The Logic…
Eagleton complains that many people commit “the blunder of believing that religion is a botched attempt to explain the world, which is like seeing ballet as a botched attempt to run for a bus” (50).
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
