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The following advice

6/25/2017

 
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Indeed, to those who want to find the essence of a world philosophy, one could give the following advice–look for its adjective.

Chapter 6.IV: corners in The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard, transl. Maria Jolas

Photo taken in Bristol, RI

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The corner denies the palace

6/24/2017

 
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For the corner denies the palace, dust denies marble, and worn objects deny splendor and luxury.

Chapter 6.III: corners in The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard, transl. Maria Jolas

Photo taken in Bronxville, NY

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The silence of our thoughts

6/22/2017

 
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When we recall the hours we have spent in our corners, we remember above all silence, the silence of our thoughts.

Chapter 6.I: corners in The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard, transl. Maria Jolas

Photo taken at Amherst College, Amherst, MA

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The entrails of the wolf

6/22/2017

 
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To put it more simply, the phenomenologist would need to have, for one moment, the entrails of the wolf, faced with a prey that has turned itself into stone.

Chapter 5.XIII:  shells The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard, transl. Maria Jolas

Photo taken in Bronxville, NY

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Shelter, protect, cover or hide

6/21/2017

 
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I have simply wanted to show that whenever life seeks to shelter, protect, cover or hide itself, the imagination sympathizes with the being that inhabits the protected space.

Chapter 5.XII:  shells The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard, transl. Maria Jolas

Photo taken in Bronxville, NY

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