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although art and philosophy are practices of investigation of the ways we find ourselves habitually organized, it is critical that these second-order activities arise out of the first level. Art is like mapmaking, in this respect. And
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“There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“At Oran, as elsewhere, for lack of time and thinking, people have to love one another without knowing much about it.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they die.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
Adolescent Literature: EDUC 1090
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For students enrolled in EDUC 1090.
Angela Carter Reading Group
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This is a book group devoted to the writings of the British 20th-century author Angela Carter (1940-1992). It complements my Angela Carter Bookclub, w ...more
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