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“Home Away from Home”
“Home Away from Home” “Abigail has always felt abandoned,” Léo Bronstein, my father’s best friend, once said. Léo was a sort of godfather to me and said this after he read the earlier version of my Confessions of a Young … Continue reading →
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Tagged "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", 1930's, abandonment, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", accuracy, afterlife rewards, age-mates, aggresion, attachment, Auschwitz, building superintendant, café atmosphere, café habituées, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, danger, defense, Divine permission, dysfunctional family, earthly Jerusalem, enemy agent, FBI, German spies, godfathers, hatred, heavenly Jerusalem, Hitler, Holocaust, home, homelessness, homelike, identity, international media, Jerusalem, Jihad, journalists, knife attacks, Leo Bronstein, Madison Avenue, medieval cartography, navel of the world, New York, nonsurvivors, offense, Park Avenue, provocation, security, sense of safety, short wave radio, sincerity, SS guard, survival, the objective case, The Wizard of Oz, troop ships, trust, truthfulness, U boats, Upper East Side, violence, World War II, Yorkville, Zyklon B
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“Chronology”
“Chronology” From precognitive dreams, where the future is recognizably predicted before it happens, we can infer that time is other than what ordinarily we think it is. From the way philosophers have sometimes talked, mathematicians and physicists too on occasion, … Continue reading →
Posted in alienation, culture, eternity, guilt and innocence, history, history of ideas, legal responsibility, literature, memoir, nineteenth-century, Phenomenology of the Mind, philosophy, political, psychology, relationships, time, work
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Tagged "To His Coy Mistress", accuracy, agression and self-defense, Andrew Marvell, anomie, cause and effect, chronology, Classical, clock time, Copernicus, despair, dimensions, disorientation, Enlightenment, factory workers, George Washington, Hellenistic, history of civilization, injustice, justice, mathematics, memory, metaphysical poetry, Modernity, narrative, Newton, past and future, personal power, philosophy, physics, precognitive dreams, reality, Romanticism, Rome, seduction, Socrates, students, synchronization, Taylorism, temporality, theology, time and eternity, time and place, time zones, trans -continental railroads, world history
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