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May Fly
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Álvaro was drawn to Hans’s quiet conviction, the feeling that he knew more than he was saying. He was intrigued by Hans’s way of both being and not being there, that polite frontier from which he listened with an air of being about to turn
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“Elisabeth had been listening to the programme in the bath. She'd switched the radio off after it and wondered if she'd be able to listen to Radio 4 in any innocence ever again. Her ears had undergone a sea-change. Or the world had.
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and —
Rich and what? she thought.
Rich and poor.”
― Autumn
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and —
Rich and what? she thought.
Rich and poor.”
― Autumn
“The historian (and for that matter the philosopher) is not God, looking at the world from above and outside. He is a man, and a man of his own time and place. He looks at the past from the point of view of the present: he looks at other countries and civilizations from the point of view of his own. This point of view is valid only for him and people situated like him, but for him it is valid. He must stand firm in it, because it is the only one accessible to him, and unless he has a point of view he can see nothing at all.”
― The Idea of History
― The Idea of History
“It's a question of how we regard our situations, how we look and see where we are, and how we choose, if we can, when we are seeing undeceivedly, not to despair and, at the same time, how best to act. Hope is exactly that, that's all it is, a mater of how we deal with the negative acts towards human beings by other human beings in the world, remembering that they and we are all human, that nothing human is alien to us, the foul and the fair, and that most important of all we're here for a mere blink of the eyes, that's all.”
― Autumn
― Autumn
“The self is undone before the impossibility of naming: all the previously known names and essentialist categories representing the world and the self are dismantled.”
― The Decolonial Abyss: Mysticism and Cosmopolitics from the Ruins
― The Decolonial Abyss: Mysticism and Cosmopolitics from the Ruins
“Rule Britannia, a bunch of thugs had been sing-shouting in the street at the weekend past Elisabeth's flat. Britannia rules the waves. First we'll get the Poles. And then we'll get the Muslims. Then we'll get the gyppos, then the gays. You lot are on the run and we're coming after you, a right-wing spokesman had shouted at a female MP on a panel on Radio 4 earlier than same Saturday. The chair of the panel didn't berate, or comment on, or even acknowledge the threat the man had just made. Instead, he gave the last word to the Tory MP on the panel, who used what was the final thirty seconds of the programme to talk about the real and disturbing cause for concern — not the blatant threat just made on the air by one person to another — of immigration.”
― Autumn
― Autumn
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