Karie Westermann
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July 2011
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This Thing of Paper
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Bespoke
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“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”
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“We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.”
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“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
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“Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.”
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“We are meaning-seeking creatures. Dogs, as far as we know, do not agonise about the canine condition, worry about the plight of dogs in other parts of the world, or try to see their lives from a different perspective. But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value”
― A Short History of Myth
― A Short History of Myth

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