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... catastrophes . Perfect is the event or language which assumes its own mode of disap- pearance , knows how to stage it , and thus reaches the maximal energy of appearances . The catastrophe is the maximal brute event , here too more ...
... catastrophes . Perfect is the event or language which assumes its own mode of disap- pearance , knows how to stage it , and thus reaches the maximal energy of appearances . The catastrophe is the maximal brute event , here too more ...
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... catastrophe ? On the pretense of prevention , they materialize all the consequences in the immediate future . How true it is that we cannot rely on chance to bring on catastrophe : we have to find its programmed equivalent in the ...
... catastrophe ? On the pretense of prevention , they materialize all the consequences in the immediate future . How true it is that we cannot rely on chance to bring on catastrophe : we have to find its programmed equivalent in the ...
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... catastrophe is this descending on these ruins ? What kind of ruin is it that needs to be once again dismantled and buried ? The sadistic irony of catastrophe , secretly waiting for things , even ruins , to regain their beauty and ...
... catastrophe is this descending on these ruins ? What kind of ruin is it that needs to be once again dismantled and buried ? The sadistic irony of catastrophe , secretly waiting for things , even ruins , to regain their beauty and ...
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