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Icarus at home # 7
Sometimes a posting just has to happen because you hear a song, somewhere in a quiet place and I can't resist this one. Strangely I never saw the film that made it famous, just never got round to it but I do love this song, country at its very best. All this week I have been doing research for my book, and what a joy its been and during that time I was reminded of Althusser's autobiography, L'Avenir dure Longtemps (The Future Lasts a Long Time) and I love that notion. In it he wrote a great description of my view on bloggin, it is not "a diary, not my memoirs, not an autobiography... My aim is not to confuse matters; on the contrary, I wish to highlight the crucial and marked similarity of those emotional experiences which occurred at different parts of my life and made me what I am." Yay! You're the one who taught me after all - how to find a soft place to fall...
Sometimes a posting just has to happen because you hear a song, somewhere in a quiet place and I can't resist this one. Strangely I never saw the film that made it famous, just never got round to it but I do love this song, country at its very best. All this week I have been doing research for my book, and what a joy its been and during that time I was reminded of Althusser's autobiography, L'Avenir dure Longtemps (The Future Lasts a Long Time) and I love that notion. In it he wrote a great description of my view on bloggin, it is not "a diary, not my memoirs, not an autobiography... My aim is not to confuse matters; on the contrary, I wish to highlight the crucial and marked similarity of those emotional experiences which occurred at different parts of my life and made me what I am." Yay! You're the one who taught me after all - how to find a soft place to fall...
