Rüdiger’s Reviews > Orientalism > Status Update

ready to be done with this one already y'all ...

it feels like in a dream when you're running somewhere and you just keep getting further away -- i shouldn't make my main goal just to finish this book, hehehe, but i hope i do someday. microdosing it over a long period is making me internalize its ideas a little better, or i'd like to think so at least

Apparently i've read this chapter before, my highlights are all over the PDF, although i don't remember any of it...
'Space acquires emotional and even rational sense by a kind of poetic process [...] The same process occurs when we deal with time. Much of what we associate with or even know about such periods as "long ago" or "the beginning" or "at the end of time" is poetic—made up.'

'And so, indeed, is the Orientalist attitude in general. It shares with magic and with mythology the self-containing, self-reinforcing character of a closed system, in which objects are what they are because they are what they are, for once, for all time, for ontological reasons that no empirical material can either dislodge or alter.'

IT BEGINS AGAIN AND THIS TIME IT WILL REACH THE END