Interesting, Max. Thanks.
On 29 August 2015 at 13:54, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> A quick ask of Google brings up this, of great interest…
>
>
> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/sep/25/walter-benjamins-angel-hitler/
>
> Max
>
> On Aug 28, 2015, at 19:05, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > I have scads of Benjamin quotes, but no Benjamin book. Any
> recommendations?
> > I'd like to buy one, or get a couple out of the library.
> >
> > When I was doing my PhD my super wouldn't let me use Walter B as he was
> > 'too old'!! Annoying super ...
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > On 29 August 2015 at 09:59, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Ah, the Benjaminian angel!
> >>
> >> And also, a Benjaminian caesura, perhaps …
> >>
> >> J
> >>
> >> On 29/08/2015, at 2:49 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks Jill, Patrick, & Bill.
> >>>
> >>> 'that angel’ can be found in Benjamin, actually…
> >>>
> >>> Doug
> >>> On Aug 28, 2015, at 2:46 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> angel = plane? Not that we're in the equation business.
> >>>>
> >>>> Like 'layer after layer of lives/sifted through time, Doug.
> >>>>
> >>>> cunning/conning loses me but hey.
> >>>>
> >>>> Bill
> >>>>
> >>>> On 28/08/2015, at 3:01 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> City of Clouds
> >>>>>
> >>>>> as any city might be
> >>>>> seen through that angel’s eyes
> >>>>>
> >>>>> layer after layer of lives
> >>>>> sifted through time
> >>>>> s low cunning
> >>>>> a con ning tower
> >>>>> of epic song
> >>>>>
> >>>>> always in the wrong key
> >>>>> to the cities
> >>>>> buried below
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Douglas Barbour
> >>>>> [log in to unmask]
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
> >> Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
> >>>>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Done in by creation itself.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
> >>>>> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
> >>>>> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Robert Kroetsch.
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >>> Douglas Barbour
> >>> [log in to unmask]
> >>>
> >>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
> Continuation
> >> 2 (UofAPress).
> >>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> >>>
> >>> Done in by creation itself.
> >>>
> >>> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
> >>> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
> >>> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
> >>>
> >>> Robert Kroetsch.
> >>
>
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