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“When I check my phone
to remember I exist and I shake it and shake it I shake
myself, as if to clear the Etch A Sketch
of my face. If I’m dead inside
how would I know, how
would a bulb
check its own filament.”
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to remember I exist and I shake it and shake it I shake
myself, as if to clear the Etch A Sketch
of my face. If I’m dead inside
how would I know, how
would a bulb
check its own filament.”
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“The light of that
jet, overhead, is my mind I’m seeing so scintillant, unreachable.
I am never where my body is.”
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jet, overhead, is my mind I’m seeing so scintillant, unreachable.
I am never where my body is.”
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“John Finnis observed that, since there is no doctrine of subjective rights in Aquinas and there is such a doctrine in Suarez, a “watershed” must be situated somewhere between the thirteenth century and the seventeenth. But this view rests on the fallacy, widespread among modern jurists and philosophers who are not medieval specialists, that if an idea is not to be found in Aquinas it is not really a medieval idea at all.”
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| The History Book ...: ARCHIVE - BYZANTIUM: THE SURPRISING LIFE OF A MEDIEVAL EMPIRE - TOC AND SYLLABUS | 72 | 214 | Dec 11, 2011 03:08PM | |
| The History Book ...: LATE MIDDLE AGES | 103 | 325 | Jan 30, 2019 09:04AM | |
| The History Book ...: CHURCH AND STATE, FAITH AND RELIGION IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE | 92 | 344 | Oct 19, 2021 12:39PM |
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