Dear Colleague: Common and Uncommon ObservationsU of Minnesota Press - 223 Seiten |
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... experiences, the sum of which constitutes a life. In every life, each waking hour is filled with observations and experiences. Almost all soon disappear. But not all. Why some are retained, or considered worthy of retention, is a ...
... experiences, the sum of which constitutes a life. In every life, each waking hour is filled with observations and experiences. Almost all soon disappear. But not all. Why some are retained, or considered worthy of retention, is a ...
Seite 1
... experience of human beings striving to pierce the ocean dark in a submersible might be compared to “travelling across Asia by oil-lit hansom cab with the condition of a Dickensian fog outside,” as James HamiltonPaterson wrote in The ...
... experience of human beings striving to pierce the ocean dark in a submersible might be compared to “travelling across Asia by oil-lit hansom cab with the condition of a Dickensian fog outside,” as James HamiltonPaterson wrote in The ...
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... experience vertigo of time? Very rarely, I should think, because time, unlike space, is not something that one can see. Its vastness has to be imagined. I have known how it feels to be dizzy in the presence of time only once, when I ...
... experience vertigo of time? Very rarely, I should think, because time, unlike space, is not something that one can see. Its vastness has to be imagined. I have known how it feels to be dizzy in the presence of time only once, when I ...
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... experience, I wonder how people can possibly find geological scenery relaxing. Or, rather, I know how they can: by attending to landscape, which, however vast, is always bridgeable and, simultaneously, suppressing all unwelcome ...
... experience, I wonder how people can possibly find geological scenery relaxing. Or, rather, I know how they can: by attending to landscape, which, however vast, is always bridgeable and, simultaneously, suppressing all unwelcome ...
Seite 8
... experience. Alas, science once again seeks to destroy a fond fantasy. Dolphins, it would appear, can be the cold-blooded killers of their own young. They have been observed to bite, hit, and butt into the air calves for as long as an ...
... experience. Alas, science once again seeks to destroy a fond fantasy. Dolphins, it would appear, can be the cold-blooded killers of their own young. They have been observed to bite, hit, and butt into the air calves for as long as an ...
Inhalt
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Civilization and City | 20 |
Politics and Ideology | 33 |
Culture Society Work | 48 |
Home Rootedness Place | 58 |
Human Ties and Isolation | 67 |
Ancestors | 81 |
Sex | 84 |
Geography | 118 |
History | 131 |
Aesthetics | 134 |
Intellect | 147 |
Language | 161 |
Morality | 170 |
Religion | 191 |
Stages of Life | 203 |
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