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• Metro

  November 21, 2009

  • This morning I went to the Cité Universitaire for Helene Cixous's seminar, cutting through the Luxembourg Garden to the metro station.  The leaves were still on the trees a week ago; now they are on the ground; it was the joggers' hour.Going down into the station I was a few steps behind a couple of men--father and son?--I decided were masons.  The station is being renovated; on the walls, ...
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• A Long Walk

  November 15, 2009

  • Yesterday late afternoon I took a long walk along the Seine with my daughter, visiting from London for the weekend.   I love to walk, I walk almost everywhere both here and in California, but strangely enough this was a walk I'd never taken before:  along the quays, not at street level, where I usually stay, but under the bridges.  The poplars along the water yellow, losing their leaves, a few ...
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• Death and the Author

  November 4, 2009

  • The time has come, the walrus said, to solve the problem of death.  God has been dead for at least a century.  Existentialism has come and gone.  Beckett ("I can't go on, I must go on"):  in his grave (just around the corner, as it turns out).  Derrida, who was obsessed by it:  gone.  Reincarnation:  not too many adepts.  Behavior therapy: is there any hope there?  Can we ...
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