June 2010
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“The circle-triangle-square is Sengai’s picture of the universe. The circle...”
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Genkoan Temple May 3, 2007 Takagamine, Kyoto, Japan
Pulled from the blog Intense City
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Narrative is transcultural. Specific thought patterns of another culture may be difficult to understand but it is often simple to comprehend their stories.
Narrative might well be considered a solution to a problem of general human concern, namely, the problem of how to translate knowing into telling. — Hayden White
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“He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But...”
– Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
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“Nature-nurture is dead because they’re really the same thing. Nature is the...”
– Louann Brizendine
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“Silence is so accurate.”
– Mark Rothko
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“The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and...”
– Mark Zuckerberg
via Tomorrow Museum, where a commenter writes:
It bothers me that this sort of idea is so popular. It’s a cousin to the “flip-flopper” attacks on politicians. If you can carve a single identity for yourself and stand by it, you are a cardboard hero. Hurrah for you. I’d rather boot...
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Nostalgia...a way back home
“Nostalgia…it’s delicate,but potent…in Greek,nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound.It’s a twinge in your heart,far more powerful than memory alone…”Don Draper from the show “Mad Men,quoted in “Eating the Dinosaur”by Chuck Klosterman
This is a time when home matters more than anything. Not just the brick and mortar part,but the part that is carried in my heart. I spent the last...
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