Julie
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Julie
It is felt that something precious and existential, something fragile and unique about our singularity, will be lost irretrievably when we find out that we are just like everybody else.
- Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism 343
Passion or Process?
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The Literature of Exhaustion
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“By paying a certain kind of attention, you can humanise or dehumanise, cherish or strip of all value. By a kind of alienating, fragmenting and focal attention, you can reduce humanity – or art, sex, humour, or religion – to nothing. You can so alienate yourself from a poem that you stop seeing the poem at all, and instead come to see in its place... See more
The Matter With Things Quotes by Iain McGilchrist
When we ‘see’ a landscape, we situate ourselves in it. If we ‘saw’ the art of the past, we would situate ourselves in history. When we are prevented from seeing it, we are being deprived of the history which belongs to us. Who benefits from this deprivation? In the end, the art of the past is being mystified because a privileged minority is
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Onions
How easily happiness begins by
dicing onions. A lump of sweet butter
slithers and swirls across the floor
of the sauté pan, especially if its
errant path crosses a tiny slice
of olive oil. Then a tumble of onions.
This could mean soup or risotto
or chutney (from the Sanskrit
chatni, to lick). Slowly the onions
go limp and then
how to live with the discomfort of learning (instead of running from it)
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