February 2012
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“I kissed thee ere I killed thee, no way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.”
- Othello, Scene ii, Act V
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“Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the...
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Zizek on Overidentification
“…the system itself has as its inherent condition of functioning that its own ideology must not be taken seriously. In other words, cynicism as today’s prevailing mode of ideology means that it is the positive condition of the functioning of the system that its own ideology must by its own subject not be taken seriously. An ideal subject today is the one who has ironic...
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LEAR: O reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man’s life is as cheap as beast’s. Thou art a lady: If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear’st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need— You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need. You see...
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Laura Marling and Robertson Davies
Rather, she looks for inspiration from books. The album’s first single, Sophia, which starts out sounding like stark early Dylan and ends up as roiling folk-rock, was sparked by Robertson Davies’s novel The Rebel Angels, in which Maria, a graduate student, is viewed by an older admirer as the embodiment of the Gnostic figure of Sophia, “feminine personification of God’s wisdom” who also “arouses...
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Happiness is always a by product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and...
– Robertson Davies
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