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[20 Oct 2004|09:34am]

[ music | talk talk- eden ] "the idea that a man plays roles- that if he is a goldsmith you should judge him qua goldsmith, and that his private life has nothing to do with it, that if he is a writer you judge him solely by the merit of his novel or poem- was rejected by the best-known Russian men of letters, because they believed that man was one, that any form of compartmentalisation was a maiming of human beings and a distortion of the truth." - isaiah berlin, "the role of the intelligentsia," the power of ideas. princeton: princeton univ. press, 2000. p. 105. found this in my german text book. naturally, it has been scanned and adorns the door: lecture at nyu's deutsches haus...thursday at 6: Julia Kristeva (University of Paris - VII, Paris) Lecture: "Narration in Literature and Psychoanalysis"