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“[A]usterity-loving pundits and policy makers really are like medieval doctors who believed in treating illness by bleeding their patients, making the...”
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“Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of...”
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“[I]t is not particularly difficuly to move towards a solution the problem raised by Hume, which Kant believed he had solved. The belief in the...”
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Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
The sea is calm tonight,
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
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I am twenty-nine, pocket flap folded
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And I am smiling I am looking out at a world that
I significantly re-created from inside
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No, words are not made to designate things. They are there to situate us amongst things. If one sees them as designations, one demonstrates the most impoverished idea of language. And the most common. It is the combat, but as it always has been, of the poem against the sign. David against Goliath. Goliath, the sign.
Henri Meschonnic, The Rhythm Party Manifesto (via sonofapritch)
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