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I love Identity for the myriad of twists. This afternoon‘s movie for #scarathlon and #TeamMonsterMash +6 pts

“That is why she dislikes dreams: they impose an unacceptable equivalence among the various periods of the same life, a leveling contemporaneity of everything a person has ever experienced; they discredit the present by denying it its privileged status. As in that night‘s dream, it obliterated a whole chunk of her life...”

#nostalgia #quotsyjune18
This book is a fascinating look at how we shape and are shaped by ideas and instances of identity

"To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends."
Milan Kundera, Identity

#TheBookKeeper #milankundera #identity #reading #books #memories #whyweread #consolation

http://thebookkeepersite.wordpress.com/2017/07/17/the-old-lady-who-bought-a-book...

I just read the Arabic translation of this book (Identity) and I'm left with a huge question mark: what on earth have I just read??
I didn't like it at all! Felt like forced philosophy! I didn't get the identity issue or the conflict he was trying to present. I don't know if the translation has failed to pass the point he was trying to make but to me it was just words pretending to be real philosophy