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**erepsysoulptnw** · 07-30-2009, 10:01 PM

Claudio Magris, author of the wondrous book that is Microcosms, writing this in an essay for AlmostIsland

Our identity is our way of looking at things. If I were asked to speak about myself, I would instinctively begin to speak about other people ? my parents, my wife, my sons, people I love, friends of both sexes, teachers, landscapes, perhaps even animals ? but certainly not about myself. I would relate stories of what has happened to others, but which are in some way integrated with my own. And through the way I spoke about other things and other people, one could perhaps understand something of my ability or inability to love, my courage, my fears, my obsessions, my beliefs, my disillusionments.
the German quotes I mentioned above can now be found here Korrekt shigekuni. and here Geld/Poesie shigekuni.

07-30-2009, 10:01 PM	#2
erepsysoulptnw Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 503 Senior Member	Claudio Magris, author of the wondrous book that is Microcosms, writing this in an essay for AlmostIsland Our identity is our way of looking at things. If I were asked to speak about myself, I would instinctively begin to speak about other people ? my parents, my wife, my sons, people I love, friends of both sexes, teachers, landscapes, perhaps even animals ? but certainly not about myself. I would relate stories of what has happened to others, but which are in some way integrated with my own. And through the way I spoke about other things and other people, one could perhaps understand something of my ability or inability to love, my courage, my fears, my obsessions, my beliefs, my disillusionments. the German quotes I mentioned above can now be found here Korrekt shigekuni. and here Geld/Poesie shigekuni.
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