WOF 342: Breaking Through the Buffered Self
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The Language Doesn't Care
You might want a foreign language to correspond to you expectations and be subjectively satisfying to you, but the language does not care. I am quoting again from iris murdock, if i am learning for instance, russian, i am confronted by an authoritative structure which commands my respect. Love of russian leads me away from myself towards something alien to me,. Something which my consciousness cannot take over, follow up, deny or make unreal. If i were the king of spain, get rid of the sara star distinction. It affects almost every dimension of it. And it's unnecessary, as far as we're concerned. The master concept that presides over this entire manner of thinking
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