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DETONATING VOCABULARY: Invisible Fame Of An Anti-Language

The final paradox of the search for purity is that it is an attempt to force experience into logical categories of non-contradiction. But experience is not amenable and those who make the attempt find themselves led into contradiction. — Mary Douglas A publisher … Continue reading

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AUTUMN OF IMPERIAL VIENNA: Illusions Haunted by the Shadow of Death

When Adolf Hitler left provincial Linz in late adolescence there was only one place to go: Habsburg Vienna, the great imperial city, home to a veritable Babylon of peoples, the ineffable seat of an ancient empire. But the crowded streets … Continue reading

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