identity

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• Mar 29 What Playing Is For Donald Winnicott, Playing and Reality It is creative apperception more than anything else that makes the individual feel that life is wort...
• Mar 13 The Route Back Toni Morrison, The Site of Memory (in Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir, ed. William Zinsser) You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable...
• Feb 25 What We Bring to the Shuffle Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have ...
• Feb 21 What the Wall Returns Leonardo da Vinci, A Treatise on Painting (Trattato della pittura) I cannot forbear to mention among these precepts a new device for study which, although it may seem ...
• Feb 4 A Single Taste Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science One thing is needful.— To 'give style' to one's character—a great and rare art! It is practiced by t...
• Jan 20 The Demon and the Windowpane George Orwell, Why I Write Sheer egoism. Desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your o...