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the totality
It’s not like I don’t get it — the iceberg as Freudian symbol of the psyche. Yeah, got it, all that submerged stuff that motivates us, and the deeper and deeper and darkerzzzzzz….. As a metaphor, the...
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love
So! A week from today is St. Valentine’s Day (remember the St.? I think we’ve Hallmarked that word out of the day at this point, but that’s what we called it when I was a kid). The morning news shows...
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prescriptive v. descriptive
Do you know that distinction, prescriptive vs descriptive? It’s easy to figure out from the words themselves, but here’s what it means. It’s ordinarily used by linguists (or philosophers), so I’ll use...
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smarty-pants Voltaire
my copy is so old, it has this cover Did you ever read The Heart is a Lonely Hunter? If you haven’t, it’s about a deaf man named Singer, whose sole companion in the world dies (another deaf man) and...
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I just like to share!
Through the terrible stress of this everlasting nightmare of our presidential election, I have relied on a number of ways of coping — some have been good, and some have NOT been so good. And I’ve been...
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