I was also sick of my neighbors, as most Parisians are. I now knew every second of the morning routine of the family upstairs. At 7:00 am alarm goes off, boom, Madame gets out of bed, puts on her deep...
Stephen Clarke
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bed, cannonball, cartoon, cartwheel, ceiling, deep sea divers boots, family, floor, kangaroo, kids
During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan Sontag and her son, my dear friend David Rieff. On one occasion, we made a special detour to the...
Christopher Hitchens
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bosnia, bosnian war, city councils, croats, david rieff, extremism, humour, intellectuals, islamic extremism, jews
According to Melanie Klein, we develop moral responses in reaction to questions of survivability. My wager is that Klein is right about that, even as she thwarts her own insight by insisting that it i...
Judith Butler
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boundaries, butler, dissociation, grief, klein, life, loss, morality, otherness, self preservation