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Jung, the Quakers and Hitler: Irene Pickard (1891–1982) – reflections on researching her archive and other musings

Showing posts with label language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language. Show all posts
Monday, 21 November 2011

Houses of words

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We build houses out of the words we believe so that we made hide inside them safe from the unknown, safe from the uncomfortable, safe from...
Wednesday, 4 May 2011

"if I had not the body, what great calamity could come to me?"

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... 及 吾 無 身 , 吾 有 何 患 ? (Tao Te Ching - 13) It is an odd trick of language and of logic to separate the "mind" from the ...
Tuesday, 12 April 2011

Layers

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We build our lives out of layer after layer of meaning, each piled chaotically one on top of the other, each weaving in and out of the rest...
Sunday, 10 April 2011

Words fall like raindrops

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Words fall like raindrops on the surface of a pool, each making their disturbance for a while, making patterns of ripples that soon die awa...
Friday, 8 April 2011

words

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Word, constructs, ideas, ways of seeing, explanations, concepts, theories, discourses, scripts - piles and piles of words on words; each the...

Distrusting words

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You are right to distrust words, the warp and weft of their connotations are too persuasive. Our minds flow along those far too easily, far...
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Word: Chimera. Definition: 1) An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two zygotes. 2) A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination. (Wiktionary)
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