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{ Thursday, February 4, 2010 }

A man must have aunts and cousins, must buy carrots and turnips, must have barn and woodshed, must go to market and to the blacksmith's shop, must saunter and sleep and be inferior and silly.

-- Emerson, quoted by J.D. Salinger

Salinger said writers had trouble abiding by that, and cited Flaubert and Kafka as "born non-buyers of carrots and turnips". From this week's New Yorker.

LINK | 4:54 PM | TB

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Reminds me of one of my favorite (supposed) quotes by Hegel, who said Kant can't possibly truly understand moral philosophy since he's never been married.

chris | February 5, 2010 4:32 AM

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