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The idea that you can read a book, he said, put it down, think about what you have just read, pick it up again, or the idea that you can reread a book — such notions, common to civilized people for centuries, are fast disappearing.
Josipovici wrote this book twenty-five years ago. I think his main character was being overly pessimistic. We are still reading, still reflecting, still rereading.
— Feb 07, 2019 09:31AM
Josipovici wrote this book twenty-five years ago. I think his main character was being overly pessimistic. We are still reading, still reflecting, still rereading.
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Fionnuala
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the sexual liberation and flower power were merely the flip side of a rigid Puritanism which is obsessed by the body and which, it seems, will never leave these shores until England is well and truly merged with Europe. And not even then for England and Europe are now in thrall to America and America will remain a Puritan country for a long time yet. When religion dies, morality is waiting to step into its shoes
— Feb 10, 2019 09:50AM
Fionnuala
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He who would speech find about must and about must go.
If I hadn't come across an example of synchysis in Queneau's 'Exercises de Style' yesterday, I wouldn't have recognized it here. And it's very apt in the context of Josipovici's book because the main character is talking about how we learn to put a scatter of words together and make meaning.
— Feb 10, 2019 08:24AM
If I hadn't come across an example of synchysis in Queneau's 'Exercises de Style' yesterday, I wouldn't have recognized it here. And it's very apt in the context of Josipovici's book because the main character is talking about how we learn to put a scatter of words together and make meaning.
