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- ...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your way…
- My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me,…
- His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out upon me; it…
- But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out…
- But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on…
- His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need…
- His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises…
- He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an…
- Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on to the goat’s back and…
- (I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.
- Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look…
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