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"I really hate that Hamori has tried to make this book hip and accessible to the reader. The juvenile tone is distracting and cringey.
Just write a good academic book, I promise it will be interesting enough for us to keep reading.
Also- my kingdom for an editor! So repetitive!!" — Feb 18, 2026 02:39PM
"I really hate that Hamori has tried to make this book hip and accessible to the reader. The juvenile tone is distracting and cringey.
Just write a good academic book, I promise it will be interesting enough for us to keep reading.
Also- my kingdom for an editor! So repetitive!!" — Feb 18, 2026 02:39PM
“Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at one another back toward the community. If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to marry, but they must think of others and of other things. They say their vows to the community as much as to one another, and the community gathers around them to hear and to wish them well, on their behalf and its own. It gathers around them because it understands how necessary, how joyful, and how fearful this joining is. These lovers, pledging themselves to one another "until death," are giving themselves away, and they are joined by this as no law or contract could join them. Lovers, then, "die" into their union with one another as a soul "dies" into its union with God. And so here, at the very heart of community life, we find not something to sell as in the public market but this momentous giving. If the community cannot protect this giving, it can protect nothing...”
― Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays
― Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays
“There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self conscience, so apparently moral...But I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous...more extravagant and bright. We are...raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.”
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