Tag: philosophy

Venetian blinds

I’m still traversing through the pages of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice with the same awe that I had when first starting the novel. Last night as I read through chapter four, I frequently stopped to mark sentences, passages, and pages that are extraordinarily powerful. I just thought I would share a couple of the …

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Poor Evelyn, Poor World

My wonderful Adolescent Psychology professor was in quite a funk today. She came in and yelled at us because she found out that a student had been plagiarizing all of her papers. I can understand Evelyn’s pain as that is the bane of any professor’s existence. To make matters worse, she was really upset about …

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The opposite of love…

Tonight is simply one of those nights where I am overly frustrated with the state of the world and society at large. Injustice runs rampant and nobody seems to take an active approach to correct the problem. Those people that could potentially make a difference are too unethical and apathetic to do so, and those …

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