By Laura Kasischke
ISBN-10: 0061909505
ISBN-13: 9780061909504
In a while, Terri will inform everybody that, from the start, she knew whatever negative was once going to ensue on spring break.
Something undesirable was once going to happen.
She knew.
It was once imagined to be the correct holiday: sizzling men, impeccable tans, and no mom and dad. yet for 2 highschool seniors, an blameless automobile trip will force them into the guts in their worst nightmare.
Feathered is a provocative and eerie story that flies readers from secure, predictable suburbia to the sun-kissed shorelines of Cancún, Mexico, and into mysterious Mayan ruins, the place historical myths flirt dangerously with current realities.
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I recognized in what Blanchot calls the instant of my death this experience of immortality. I would be interested today not to recount this but to formulate it. 18520$ $CH2 12-20-13 09:11:50 PS PAGE 27 28 Discussion Between Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy JD: Just a word, Jean-Luc, to complicate a bit what I said about immortality. It is true that, in the Spinozistic sense, I never feel immortal. That being said, in the sense in which Freud says that no one believes in his or her own death, that even when one is obsessed with being followed at every instant by mortality, there is something here that I cannot believe.
Allow me first of all to say straightaway and straightforwardly: I am very happy, truly, that the College is twenty years old and that I’ve been given the opportunity, the chance, to take part in the festivities and in the celebration of this event, and, more modestly, in reflections upon what came to pass, as it is put in the title chosen by Jean-Luc Nancy, and in the projections, hopes, and resolutions that this anniversary elicits for the future. The College ‘‘Twenty Years After,’’ therefore, though I shall resist the temptation to recount its history, intrigue, or drama against the backdrop of The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte of Bragelonne, which I’ve just finished rereading, with great enthusiasm as a great book and, among other things, a great history lesson and lesson in political philosophy regarding the relationship between civil society and the sovereignty of the state, the secret and public space, and so on.
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