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essay on The Present is exciting stuff. i like the idea that consciousness facilitates observing the present and self-consciousness obliterates the senses. the artful connection of self-consciousness to non-innocence is good, too. it seems to live in a city (self-conscious in windows, other ppl) is to sacrifice the present/innocence
— Jun 11, 2019 08:05PM
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is on page 157 of 288
did not very much find 'intricacy' chapter very compelling. i think the questions of like "why did god make nature so intricate and weird' just falls flat compared to previous chapters about the wonder/horror of nature being so intricate and weird, the striving to get to that wonder/horror. like the problem of evil, just a little old school.
— Jun 19, 2019 01:34PM
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is on page 120 of 288
really compelling how imperative knowledge is to seeing nature? god? the present? - anne dillard drops factoids, horrible, about insects and amoeba, etc. she names trees by their species. i think there's interesting play with the idea of estrangement here (probably suvin's fault) - this paradoxical way in which losing a since of the human scale by engaging nature is "anti-estranging" to ... reality? god?
— Jun 15, 2019 06:55AM
