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"Ch. 1: the thesis-as-brick congeals from what is presented, at first, as straightforward: the rhetoric employed by Barthes was very much the same, but Barthes's wit and sharper sense of irony made his work much more pleasant, from a reader's perspect...more
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| I was fairly blown away by the language and images in this collection, which rattles along like some jagged, ruthless machine. There is, however, a streak of amateurishness running through some of these poems: an odd line out that pushes a theme or m...more | |
“I call architecture frozen music.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We are struggling with language.
We are engaged in a struggle with language.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
We are engaged in a struggle with language.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
“I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
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