Christian Pecaut
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Think Books Without Reading https://t.co/NMb2v46eRq
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Joined August 2016
death itself is a translation from living speech and action to told; reading machine text, whether by living or dead, begins and ends without life
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...happiness should not wait for peace that may never come... -- Götz von Berlichingen, Goethe
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Regine Schlegel and her husband departed for the Danish West Indies in 1847, removing her from Kierkegaard's daily orbit but not from his obsessive thoughts. He sent her husband a sealed letter to be opened only if she asked about him.
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The Corsair affair confirmed Kierkegaard's alienation from the crowd and deepened his religious turn toward suffering as the mark of authentic Christianity. He abandoned plans for a pastoral calling, instead remaining in Copenhagen as a witness against the age.
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The satirical weekly The Corsair had praised Kierkegaard while mocking other writers, prompting him to demand he too be attacked in its pages. Editor Meir Goldschmidt obliged with months of caricatures mocking Kierkegaard's uneven trouser legs and hunched back. The sustained
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At the Borgerdyd School under Headmaster Nielsen's iron discipline, Kierkegaard earned the nickname 'Soren Sock' for his unfashionable short trousers and thick wool stockings. Classmates remembered him as a clever tease who mocked larger boys while remaining withdrawn and
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