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Monday, September 14, 2015
Letter from Franz Kafka to Oskar Pollak
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"Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a b...
A History of Reading
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" 'Reading,' wrote Petrarch in one of his many letters, 'rarely avoids danger, unless the light of divine truth shines upon...
Reflections
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"What my first books were to me -- to remember this I should first have to forget all other knowledge of books. It is certain that all ...
Rocket and Lightship
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"But then, the present is always lived ambiguously. It is only in retrospect that we begin to simplify experience into myth -- because ...
Sunday, July 7, 2013
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
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"In Catholic dogma, the definition of noble work had mostly been limited to that done by priests in the service of God, with practical ...
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
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"But then had come a transformation to which we were still the heirs, and of which Ariane was an exemplar. Over the course of the ninet...
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
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"The great works of art have about them the quality of a reminder. They fix that which is fugitive: the cooling shadow of an oak on a w...
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
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"Nevertheless, no quayside can ever appear entirely banal, because people will always be miniscule compared to the great oceans and the...
Monday, September 27, 2010
Hegel on the Future of Art
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How many of us would seriously place Rauschenberg besides Rembrandt, Cage besides Bach? Stepping into a museum or concert hall we enter an a...
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The End of Art
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[Post-aesthetic art] must be swallowed raw -- in post-aesthetic art the idea is raw and intellectually and emotionally undigested, and there...
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