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30 July 2009

Five Moral Pieces (Umberto Eco)

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In his introduction, Umberto Eco writes that the five essays in this book are occasional pieces and ethical pieces. Their occasional nature...
15 July 2009

Stairway to hell: Two translations of “Rashōmon”

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In my previous notes on Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s Rashōmon and Other Stories (translated by Takashi Kojima and published in 1952 by Charles E....
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Rashōmon and Other Stories (Akutagawa Ryūnosuke)

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Consider the first story. A Police Commissioner interviews seven individuals regarding an alleged crime of murder: - The first witness ...
11 July 2009

Stark white

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And is not blindness precisely the condition of men who are entirely cut off from knowledge of any reality, and have in their soul no clear ...
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07 July 2009

Ecology and the End of Postmodernity (George Myerson)

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It appears that we do not need to be so hung up about the future. The cult of the future belongs to the future, with all its gross and insat...
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