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January 19, 2013August 29, 2023 - Archives, Uncategorized

The cultural machine

I have started reading Donald Sassoon’s monumental The Culture of the Europeans (1,400 pages not counting notes, I may be…

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May 7, 2010March 8, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Uncategorized

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Roy Kesey

“A sentence is a length of awareness.” —William H. Gass, “Culture, Self and Style,” Habitations of the Word   The…

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