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Friday
Reading Mary Oliver’s Invitation: Oh do you have time to linger for just a little while out of your busyand very important day for the goldfinches that have gathered in a field of thistlesfor a musical battle, to see who can sing the highest note, or the lowest,or the most expressive of mirth, or the…
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Wednesday
Maybe its because I’ve started working, maybe its because I have more responsibilities, or i start to feel I should say the look of others eyes on me, that the weight of it feels heavy, dea of Sartre’s look… well, its this: The Look: famous example, the peephole. I look through the peephole, observing you…
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Monday
On Sense and Reference, Frege Sign: Names, combination of words, letters. For example, points of intersection of a and b & points of intersection of b and c Reference of the signs: what the signs refer to. What is designates. Points of intersection of a and b & points of intersection of b and c…
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Wednesday
Fragmented nature of Eliot Prufrock Contradiction and Women Derogatory: Talking of Michelangelo Sense of Paradox Prufrock’s voices do not stand for anything but their interactions with Prufrock and such inventions do. Vantriquilzation Prufrock through the women, scenes, and dialogue Prufrock wears the mask, but projects it on to the reader He wears a mask, assumes…
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The Emperor of Ice Cream
The Emperor of Ice Cream Steven WallaceCall the roller of big cigars,The muscular one, and bid him whipIn kitchen cups concupiscent curds.Let the wenches dawdle in such dressAs they are used to wear, and let the boysBring flowers in last month’s newspapers.Let be be finale of seem.The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.Take from…
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Monday
Metaphor Metaphor highlights our perception of something literal Humans are always caught up in an artificial makeup of order Reality is always beyond description or metaphor Metaphor gives us a sense of the real at a remove
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Monday
an illusion is still an illusion
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Tuesday
On beginning and end On Kant’s dualism
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Monday
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Monday
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