“Even the works of Shakespeare might be more thoroughly appreciated if they were re-examined from unorthodox positions. Someone, once in a while, should take a good long look at Hamlet through his legs.”
― I Am a Cat
― I Am a Cat
“I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.”
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
“Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.”
― Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979
― Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979
“I have analyzed the peculiarity of cultural capital, which we should in fact call informational capital to give the notion its full generality, and which itself exists in three forms, embodied, objectified, or institutionalized.”
― An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology
― An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology
“In the sentence “She’s no longer suffering,” to what, to whom does “she” refer? What does that present tense mean?”
― Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979
― Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979
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