[lit-ideas] "Reading Lolita in Tehran" - "Reading Ricoeur in Manhattan"
- From: Scribe1865@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 14:50:56 EDT
John quotes John: "Telling a story, or listening to a story, gives structure
to time, and that's what life really is: Time."
A gee-whiz note rather than an explication. One reason I am so negligent in
finishing _Reading Lolita in Teheran_ is that I am also very slowly, pencil and
notebook in hand, plodding through Paul Ricoeur's _Time and Narrative_, now
volume two, where he compares the time of plot to the time of history.
Ricoeur's is one of those remarkable minds a reader can luxuriate in, like
Kenneth Burke's. Was quite surprised to learn (after reading the foreword to
_Oneself as Another_) that he is Christian.
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