Yu's Blog: a sinking arsonist , page 35
February 18, 2015
"Where there is sadism there is the suffocation of a passion."
“Where there is sadism there is the suffocation of a passion.” - The Uses of...
February 17, 2015
"Unlike almost all social thinkers before and after him, Fourier does not want to change human..."
“Unlike almost all social thinkers before and after him, Fourier does not want to change human...
February 16, 2015
"…because for him Civilization was a determinate period, preceded by Barbarism, and as it had..."
“…because for him Civilization was a determinate period, preceded by Barbarism, and as...
February 15, 2015
"But never is writing so ill-used as it is in legal documents."
“But never is writing so ill-used as it is in legal documents.” - The Uses of...
February 14, 2015
"The poetics of the ineffability of existence are and always will be bound to rare individual..."
“The poetics of the ineffability of existence are and always will be bound to rare individual...
February 13, 2015
"To look at life without any mythical or cultural middlemen, and to wait for “the revelation of..."
“To look at life without any mythical or cultural middlemen, and to wait for “the...
February 12, 2015
"Balzac discovered the big city as a den of mysteries, and the sense he keeps ever-alert is that of..."
“Balzac discovered the big city as a den of mysteries, and the sense he keeps ever-alert is...
February 11, 2015
"To make a novel out of a city, to represent the streets and the various districts as dramatis..."
“To make a novel out of a city, to represent the streets and the various districts as dramatis...
February 10, 2015
"It is a no-place, a utopia."
“It is a no-place, a utopia.” - The Uses of Literature 178Italo Calvino
February 9, 2015
"Orlando Furioso is a poem that refuses to begin and refuses to end."
“Orlando Furioso is a poem that refuses to begin and refuses to end.” - The Uses of...
