by
The Paris Review
(editor)
The Paris Review Issue 137
The Paris Review Issue 137
by
The Paris Review
(editor)
by
The Paris Review
(editor)
The Paris Review Issue 137
by
The Paris Review
(editor)
by
The Paris Review
(editor)
Manichaeism
(en)
an ancient religious movement that has to do with duality? "an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness"
60
This is a very peculiar form of heresy. It's a form of Manichaeanism. And I call myself a Manichaean, a rather baffled Manichaean
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1 year, 4 months ago
This is a very peculiar form of heresy. It's a form of Manichaeanism. And I call myself a Manichaean, a rather baffled Manichaean
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1 year, 4 months ago
apodictic
(en)
(adjective) expressing or of the nature of necessary truth or absolute certainty
70
his words cut through me at that time: the authority of that man, the charisma, the apodictic contempt in that statement. So I accepted.
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1 year, 4 months ago
his words cut through me at that time: the authority of that man, the charisma, the apodictic contempt in that statement. So I accepted.
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1 year, 4 months ago
somnambular
(en)
to walk or perform another act while asleep or in a sleeplike condition
97
It's quite clear that there are degrees of somnambular at-homeness (the fashionable word in Cambridge now is inwardness) which I will never attain
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1 year, 4 months ago
It's quite clear that there are degrees of somnambular at-homeness (the fashionable word in Cambridge now is inwardness) which I will never attain
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1 year, 4 months ago
palaver
(en)
(noun) a long parley usually between persons of different cultures or levels of sophistication / (noun) conference discussion / (noun) idle talk / (noun) misleading or beguiling speech / (verb) to talk profusely or idly / (verb) parley / (verb) to use palaver to; cajole
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a delegation of American writers sent to the Soviet Union for one of their literary palavers
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1 year, 4 months ago
a delegation of American writers sent to the Soviet Union for one of their literary palavers
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1 year, 4 months ago