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Leap by Terry Tempest Williams
My grandfather's desire is for voices, to be held as he dies in the comfort of conversation, even if he rarely contributes words; it is his constancy of being that shapes my thoughts.—100
My grandfather's desire is for voices, to be held as he dies in the comfort of conversation, even if he rarely contributes words; it is his constancy of being that shapes my thoughts.—100
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The Parallax View by Slavoj Zizek
So what about this obvious contrast between Hegel and Kierkegaard: for Hegel, everything has already happened (and thought is, in its basic dimension, a recollection of what happened); while for Kierkegaard, history is open toward the future?—77-8.
So what about this obvious contrast between Hegel and Kierkegaard: for Hegel, everything has already happened (and thought is, in its basic dimension, a recollection of what happened); while for Kierkegaard, history is open toward the future?—77-8.
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Galactic Patrol by E. E. "Doc" Smith
As soon as it was safe to do so, out darted an armored figure with a space-line, whose grappling end clinked into the socket of the old man's armor as the pilot rammed it home.—192
This was eminently tricky work, necessity as it did such nicety of synchronization with the Delgonians' own compulsions as to be indetectable even to the monsters themselves.—28
Both of these developments were starkly incredible, and Worsel's long body tightened convulsively, rock-hard, in the violence of the mental force now driving his exploring mind.—89
As soon as it was safe to do so, out darted an armored figure with a space-line, whose grappling end clinked into the socket of the old man's armor as the pilot rammed it home.—192
This was eminently tricky work, necessity as it did such nicety of synchronization with the Delgonians' own compulsions as to be indetectable even to the monsters themselves.—28
Both of these developments were starkly incredible, and Worsel's long body tightened convulsively, rock-hard, in the violence of the mental force now driving his exploring mind.—89
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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Stalin returned to the ascetic Bedouin life of the underground Bolshevik, with the tension and the variety of the revolutionary on the run, except now his restless progress more resembled the train of a Mongol Khan.—114
Stalin returned to the ascetic Bedouin life of the underground Bolshevik, with the tension and the variety of the revolutionary on the run, except now his restless progress more resembled the train of a Mongol Khan.—114
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The Prophet Armed by Isaac Deutscher
The idea of a revolution through the people was gradually replaced by that of a conspiracy to be planned and carried out by a small and determined minority from the intelligentsia.—4
Yet, before parting with the Mensheviks he once again assailed Lenin with a hailstorm of his most hurtful invective, which made any reconciliation with him wellnigh impossible.—88
The idea of a revolution through the people was gradually replaced by that of a conspiracy to be planned and carried out by a small and determined minority from the intelligentsia.—4
Yet, before parting with the Mensheviks he once again assailed Lenin with a hailstorm of his most hurtful invective, which made any reconciliation with him wellnigh impossible.—88
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The Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability by Laura Kipnis
Foot binding (the conventional emblem of fettered feminity) has all sorts of cosmopolitan equivalents, though the happy new development is that they're now entirely self-imposed.—x
Foot binding (the conventional emblem of fettered feminity) has all sorts of cosmopolitan equivalents, though the happy new development is that they're now entirely self-imposed.—x
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The Fragile Absolute by Slavoj Zizek
What better example is there than Hasek's immortal 'good soldier Schweik,' who caused total havoc in the old Imperial Austrian Army simply by obeying orders all too literally?—148
What better example is there than Hasek's immortal 'good soldier Schweik,' who caused total havoc in the old Imperial Austrian Army simply by obeying orders all too literally?—148
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Radical Evolution by Joel Garreau
"My thesis is that in just 20 years the boundary between fantasy and reality will be rent asunder," writes Rodney Brooks, director at the Artifical Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.—5
"My thesis is that in just 20 years the boundary between fantasy and reality will be rent asunder," writes Rodney Brooks, director at the Artifical Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.—5
