March 2012
23 posts
“In his 1967 essay “The Death of the Author,” Roland Barthes announced the...”
– Lee Konstantinou, Anti-Comprehension Pills
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“Even before we actually tell any stories, the language we use teems with them in...”
– Tim Parks, Do we need stories?
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“When I tell you that I love you
Don’t test my love
Accept my love,...”
– Dan Bern, Jerusalem
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“And I watched as everyone I knew spent their lives
Trying to be watched on a...”
– Dan Bern, Wasteland
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“Causal relationships are vast, complicated nets. Everything is connected to...”
– Alva Noë
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“Language can only begin with the void; no fullness, no certainty can ever speak;...”
– Maurice Blanchot, Literature and the Right to Death, The Gaze of Orpheus. Trans. Lydia Davis, 1981; p 381
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“Bato à porta da pedra.
– Sou eu, me deixa entrar.
– Não tenho porta – diz a...”
– Wislawa Szymborska
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“To say that I would have done otherwise had I wanted is simply to say that I...”
– Sam Harris, Free will
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“In the age when life on earth was full, no one paid any special attention to...”
– Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu
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“The task of the narrator is not an easy one, he said. He appears to be required...”
– Cormac McCarthy, The crossing
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“Amigos ficam mais amigos em caminhadas.”
– Alexandre Rodrigues
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“A book is like a man—clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly....”
– John Steinbeck em carta a seu editor
