Category Archives: Language

The Modern World-System

There seems to be much too great a distance between loving and hating for one to be able to have the right to bring them so close together, in one breath, in one single thought, in two words that, without … Continue reading

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Intermission

Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain’t heard nothin’ yet! –Al Jolson, The Jazz Singer My watch said I had only four minutes to get to class.  Shit.  Lagkagehuset is nowhere near DIS.  It was a new pastry that … Continue reading

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A Failure to Communicate

The terrible tower of Babel will be built again, though, like the one of old, it will not be finished. –Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov This Wednesday, Bjarne, Hanne, Frederik, Sofie, and I piled into our tiny Eurocar on the … Continue reading

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