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  • I love junk food - but that's my choice - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent on 2009-10-11
    • I want to be buried in an immense polystyrene Big Mac box.
  • Minimalism and the Short Story on 2009-10-08
    • reflected in slivers of individual experience.
  • Blog - On the Road on 2009-10-08

    • The people on the Red Line could be pretty grotesque. Not ugly, not disgusting, but a little too real, a little too human. The old black man who ate cashews and spit the empty shells at his feet. The child with the white bandage over his right eye and a bruise on his cheek. The Latina woman, just about my mother's age, who handed me a Kleenex because my nose was running.

      Once the El train doors parted, once I found an empty seat, checked to be sure there was no feces, human or otherwise, beneath it, and opened the dog-eared copy I had not bothered to return yet to the library, the clatter and clangor of the train jostling beneath the metropolis, beneath the skyscrapers and busy multitudes above suddenly faded away. What remained was a way of looking, a way of moving about the world, a way of seeing people, as frightening, as unfamiliar as they might seem, as both odd, necessary, and lovely.

       

  • Sherwood Anderson on 2009-10-08
  • BPAS - Mark Solms: Psychoanalysis and the Brain on 2009-10-06
    • In short, Freud observed that
      the essential nature of neurotic symptoms needed to be described
      in subjective (psychological) terms,- using concepts like
      remembering and feeling rather than objective (anatomical) ones.

      Of course Freud recognised that all subjective events must somehow
      exist also in a physiological form. It should be possible in
      principle to identify processes in the brain which correspond (for
      example) to emotionally charged memories of the type described
      above. However, things like personal memories and the feelings
      attached to them are only perceptible as such from the
      viewpoint of subjective awareness. They cannot be perceived
      objectively; they cease to exist as memories and feelings when
      they are approached from an external (material) point of view. A
      memory of being slapped in the face literally disappears when it
      is studied through the anatomist's microscope. One can never find
      a subjective experience inside the tissues of the brain.
    • In short, Freud observed that
      the essential nature of neurotic symptoms needed to be described
      in subjective (psychological) terms,- using concepts like
      remembering and feeling rather than objective (anatomical) ones.

      Of course Freud recognised that all subjective events must somehow
      exist also in a physiological form. It should be possible in
      principle to identify processes in the brain which correspond (for
      example) to emotionally charged memories of the type described
      above. However, things like personal memories and the feelings
      attached to them are only perceptible as such from the
      viewpoint of subjective awareness. They cannot be perceived
      objectively; they cease to exist as memories and feelings when
      they are approached from an external (material) point of view. A
      memory of being slapped in the face literally disappears when it
      is studied through the anatomist's microscope. One can never find
      a subjective experience inside the tissues of the brain.
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  • Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Winesburg, Ohio: Text and Criticism (Viking Critical Library) on 2009-10-04
    • own of Winesburg, and usually depict a point where the character goes wrong, usually because of stubbornly clinging to a misguided belief or idea
    • This book from 1919 really deserves to be read more often and by more people. It is a collection of 23 linked short stories, and is prefaced by a very strange frame narration called "The Book of the Grotesque." Anderson's basic premise is that any time a person clings to a notion of truth, he or she becomes grotesque. This is an interesting rallying cry for cultural relativism, particularly given the time period in which it was written. The stories themselves, which tend to have a quiet, almost meditative tone reflective of small town life in the midwest, are subtle. They usually concern only one or two people in the town of Winesburg, and usually depict a point where the character goes wrong, usually because of stubbornly clinging to a misguided belief or idea. The stories are further linked by the young man George Willard, who for a while serves as the town's newspaper reporter. Highly recommended!
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  • Amazon.com: Used and New: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (English Library) on 2009-09-22
  • Biography on 2009-09-16
    • died of tuberculosis, c. 1831
  • A BACKWARD GLANCE O'ER TRAVEL'D ROADS. (Leaves of Grass [1891-1892]) - The Walt Whitman Archive on 2009-09-02
    •  PERHAPS the best of songs heard, or of any and all true love, or life's fairest episodes, or sailors', soldiers' trying scenes on land or sea, is the résumé of them, or any of them, long afterwards, looking at the actualities away back past, with all their practical excitations gone. How the soul loves to float amid such reminiscences!
    •  PERHAPS the best of songs heard, or of any and all true love, or life's fairest episodes, or sailors', soldiers' trying scenes on land or sea, is the résumé of them, or any of them, long afterwards, looking at the actualities away back past, with all their practical excitations gone. How the soul loves to float amid such reminiscences!
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  • Physics on 2009-08-29

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