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Kyle’s books-in-guangzhou shelf

On the Heights of Despair by Emil M. Cioran

Care Crosses the River by Hans Blumenberg

History of the Conquest of Mexico/History of the Conquest of ... by William Hickling Prescott

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Kyle Clewett is currently reading

六个道德故事

by Éric Rohmer

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— Nov 26, 2023 07:47AM

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Care Crosses the River (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

by Hans Blumenberg

bookshelves: author-german, philosophy, currently-reading, books-in-guangzhou

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— Nov 26, 2023 07:38AM

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History of the Conquest of Mexico/History of the Conquest of Peru

by William Hickling Prescott

bookshelves: history, mexico, peru, spain, author-american, currently-reading, books-in-guangzhou

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Kyle’s Quotes

“Hegel observed that newspapers serve modern man as a substitute for morning prayers”
― Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

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“Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

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“I am reminded of Housman's remark that 'accuracy is a duty, not a virtue.' To praise a historian for his accuracy is like praising an architect for using well-seasoned timber or properly mixed concrete in his building. It is a necessary condition of his work, but not his essential function.”
― Edward Hallett Carr, What Is History?

tags: factish, facts, historical-facts, historiography, history

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“No more arresting emblems of the modern culture of nationalism exist than cenotaphs and tombs of Unknown Soldiers.”
― Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

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“Put romantic love at the center of a novel today, and who could be persuaded that in its pursuit the characters are going to get to something large? That love is going to throw them up against themselves in such a way that we will all learn something important about how we got to be as we are, or how the time in which we live got to be as it is. No one, it seems to me. Today, I think, love as a metaphor is an act of nostalgia, not of discovery.”
― Vivian Gornick, The End of The Novel of Love

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