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raymond carver is very good at making me sob

It is interesting to note how vocab of anarchist discourse is diff in Spain than in the US. Notably with the terms libertarian municipalism (which Id only seen used to describe Bookchin’s philosophy of local gov, rather than the contemporary practice of transforming local legislatures) and direct action

reading this because of that car seat headrest lyric. it’s amazing so far

Chateaubriand merits psychoanalyzing

The chapter on symbols didnt differentiate between something being a symbol and being symbolic. In his example, when the person entered the cave, it was literally a confrontation with Nothingness - the atmosphere of the cave invokes that, so the cave is not being a symbol. BUT the cave was symbolic since entering it symbolized her larger struggles. The cave story is a symbol, but the cave is part of the symbolism.

feel like more could have been said on the concept of myth!!

any book that takes a jab at harold bloom is a friend of mine

i might just not apply to college at this point

first book to make me cry

Said is a GREAT writer and INCREDIBLE historian but i wish he would translate all these french passages he’s quoting

wonderful work so far

so far I’m sensing that kind of writing style continentals love to use that subsumes argument to prose - but more particularly, narrative progression — almost a romanticization of the cartesian epiphany, drawn out for an entire course of argumentation. the first essay was just droll