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sign-posts: To Be Hurt [Beckett]
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To Be Hurt [Beckett]. From 'The Painful Comedy of Samuel Beckett', John Banville, NYRB. Vol 43 no 18, 14 Nov 1996. In return for some work Beckett did on the proofs of Finnegans Wake. Joyce paid him a miserly couple of hundred francs and "supplemented it," Beckett reported, "with an old overcoat and 5 ties! I did not refuse. It is so much simpler to be hurt than to hurt.". Posted Monday, June 30, 2008. Subscribe to Post Comments [ Atom. Selected by Peter Fremlin.
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sign-posts: Risks The Soldiers Themselves Accept [Margalit, Walzer]
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Risks The Soldiers Themselves Accept [Margalit, Walzer]. From ' Israel: Civilians and Combatants. By Avishai Margalit and Michael Walzer,. The New York Review of Books. Vol 56 no. 18, May 14, 2009. But merely "not intending" the civilian deaths, while knowing that they will occur, is not a position that can be vindicated by Israel's condemnation of terrorism. So how can Israel prove its opposition to the practices of its enemies? Its soldiers must, by contrast with its enemies,. Selected by Peter Fremlin.
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sign-posts: To See What It Is 'Like' [Fremlin]
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To See What It Is 'Like' [Fremlin]. The Seven Chars of Chelsea. By Celia Fremlin, 1940, pp. 1-2. And the astounding, and sociologically horrifying, thing is that they listen to us; we are considered to have a real function as purveyors of information. The trouble is that the two of you speak different languages; you think different thoughts; you live in different worlds. In a word, you belong to different classes in this British society of ours. Posted Saturday, February 6, 2010. Selected by Peter Fremlin.
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Chumbados in Rio: Ch1: Many Ways To Access
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Blogging my masters' thesis. Based on research done with disabled people. In Rio de Janeiro. Sunday, 20 March 2011. Ch1: Many Ways To Access. We've seen that the physical state of physical accessibility in Rio de Janeiro. Isn't great. But my idea of an imagination. Is to look at other ways of doing things. Before any of Rio's buses were accessible,. Still got about using them. To go to university Matheus. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). You can get updates by email. Chapter 1: Setting the Scene.
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sign-posts: One Definition Of Dignity [Todorov]
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One Definition Of Dignity [Todorov]. Facing The Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps. By Tzvetan Todorov, 2000 [1991], pp. 61-62. Trans, Arthur Denner and Abigail Pollack. The Exercise of Will. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen. Borowski tells of a young woman who, having understood the fate in store for her, decides to jump into the truck ferrying new arrivals to the gas chambers. Posted Thursday, January 7, 2010. Subscribe to Post Comments [ Atom. Selected by Peter Fremlin.
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sign-posts: Impatient with Snapshots of Squalor [Boo]
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Impatient with Snapshots of Squalor [Boo]. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum. By Katherine Boo, 2011, "Author's Note". Whose capabilities are given wing by the market and a government's economic and social policy? Whose capabilities are squandered? By what means might that ribby child grow up to be less poor? Posted Saturday, April 7, 2012. This comment has been removed by the author. December 14, 2012 at 5:25 AM. December 14, 2012 at 5:28 AM. Selected by Peter Fremlin.
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Day 10: otherwise known as positive-thinking monday | thewhalebytes
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Experimental real time fact based fiction story telling in blog form… Different bloggers. Different bytes. Auditioning for life. One day at a time. No drafts. No planning. No pressure then :). What is the whale bytes? Day 9: an anish kapoor sunset in hyde park. Day 11: there’s SOMETHING on your arm! Day 10: otherwise known as positive-thinking monday. January 10, 2011. Dear all that is holy (i.e. science, my cats, my laptop, etc. and ad nauseam),. That the world just. To reflect my ‘ sunny-natured. I tot...
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sign-posts: Your Sensitivity [Naipaul]
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From An Area of Darkness. Ch 2, V.S. Naipaul. Posted Saturday, June 28, 2008. Subscribe to Post Comments [ Atom. Selected by Peter Fremlin.
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sign-posts: Never Any Great Risk [Forster]
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Never Any Great Risk [Forster]. E M Forster, 1910. But after all,' she continued with a smile, 'there's. Never any great risk as long as you have money.'. What a shocking speech! Money pads the edges of things,' said Miss Schlegel. God help those who have none.'. But this is something quite new! Said Mrs. Munt, who. Collected new ideas as a squirrel collects nuts, and was. Especially attracted by those that are portable. New for me; sensible people have acknowledged it for. Posted Monday, March 23, 2009.
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sign-posts: Encounter [Wexler]
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A teacher-student encounter. One side seeks to 'improve' the other, who doesn't mind being improved, so long as it doesn't involve being different. One side seeks to displace, the other has an inbuilt inertia. The resultant is something in between, which both sides settle for. It's difficult (as you see) to stop thinking of one side of this engagement as being somehow Nominative and the other Accusative. Posted Saturday, October 18, 2008. Subscribe to Post Comments [ Atom. Selected by Peter Fremlin.