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2 février 2018
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- isbn: 9782878540833
- eisbn: 9782878548785
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Charles Simic, « Chinese Boxes and Puppet Theaters », Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, ID : 10670/1.hxmyoo
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Consciousness is the only home of which we know. — Dickinson Two images come to mind when I think of Emily Dickinson’s poems: Chinese boxes and puppet theaters. The image of boxes inside boxes has to do with cosmology, and theaters and puppets with psychology. They’re, of course, intimately related. The intimate immensity of consciousness is Dickinson’s constant preoccupation. I imagine her sitting in her room for hours on end, with eyes closed, looking inward. To be conscious is alre...