A HORSE WITHOUT A cause
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The Bell - Iris Murdoch (opens the original)
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# I started reading the bell in search of an answer to the question how can we be accountable to other people, and more importantly (for me) when can we hold other people to account. when is it right to say, you have wronged me, and i am going to raise a scene, complain to the authorities, demand reparations or restitutions, when am I right to be repelled by another, and when am I -- a word that murdoch repeatedly attributes to the consciousness of the bell’s most innocent member, rebarbative --
Paper Girls (opens the original)
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# paper girlsI read it all in one day; loved the tardigrades, pterodactyls, the fantasy of infinite access to human history past and present; the idea that time goes on a loop, that is a loop in which repeated human usage degrades, emphasize every word of the last four. The friendship between the girls was perhaps....though I skipped through many complaints in the fan written letters, the weakest part of the series. I got a sense of individual histories for each of the girls, but not individual
Couples Therapy (opens the original)
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# couples therapy couples therapy asks the viewer to judge couples, orna (though nearly everyone seems to have a very positive transference to her, everyone I have talked to, and by extension, because I am beginning watching belatedly, after people important to me told me to, me). But on what basis are these judgments formed? Essentially one scene per couple per episode -- less than 9 scenes per couple, and a forward progression in time. Watching each couple has an addictive quality for me, as I
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