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Orwell, Freud, and 1984
… The Freud of history was a bourgeois gentleman. The commercial imagery of his writings reflects the declassed … of unauthorized, and supposedly misleading, biographical studies necessitated violating that request. In his lifetime … Orwell’s famous novel was also published at one of the high points of Freud’s influence, which may help account still …
Past Tomorrow: A Letter From Bolivia
… of fertilizers and explosives. By 1877, a British-Chilean company was working the guano deposits, and they wanted only … massacred indigenous leaders, and disappeared intellectuals and politicos, like Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, the … In 1544, as the story goes, a llama herder named Diego Huallpa discovered silver near Potosí, some 500 …
The Expense of Greatness: Three Emphases on Henry Adams
… of an education, when its inherent possibilities are compared with those it achieved, must strike the honest … fraction of the life we yet deeply know and endure and die. It is the failure the mind comes to ultimately and all … recognised, with the failure which as we feel it is also our own in prospect. Let us take for our first emphasis …
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Of Marsupials and Placentals
… Of Marsupials and Placentals Why are there no giant tree-climbing, … classification, but now that cladistic approaches are common—using behavior and ecological setting to guide … up next to a real saber-toothed placental cat, and so they died. And as for arboreal kangaroos, forget about it. One …
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… learn to hate so purely it could have swept me cleanly and completely out of myself. Perhaps that’s what civilization … to be able to feel only one way. But who hasn’t imagined committing some unforgivable act? What does it prove that … the papers, afraid, sometimes, of what we understand. 525-526 By Lawrence Raab …
Blue Windows
… a few calls, tell stories on the phone of a brother who died though I have no brother who died; I make up a sad involved tale about my sister, and the … in bed instead of getting up; we have to let what wants us come in. We’ve both heard this before, this accurate …
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