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WORKS HAUNTED BY GOD
Underlined sections from Orthodoxy by G K Chesterton (1908)
00:04:32 mp3 / No problemo / ISBN 0898705525
KEYWORDS: Theology, Love, topsy turvy, Christ, pessimists, Satan, gravity, love again.

Theologico historical fragment by Walter Benjamin (1939)
00:04:03 mp3 / Odd rhythm of reading, mispronounced Latin / ISBN 080520802X
KEYWORDS: History, messiah, nihilism, messianic time, just plain difficult.

The aesthetics of silence by Susan Sontag (1969)
01:14:56 mp3 / Mispronounced French, German / ISBN 0312420218
KEYWORDS: Art, silence as aesthetic form of spirituality, Samuel Beckett, Robbe-Grillet, sound is the chatter of immobility, what is at stake is a new form of void from which the new is possible.

Text for nothing #2 by Samuel Beckett (1967)
00:07:28 mp3 / Easy to read in your mind, but much harder out loud / ISBN 0802150624
KEYWORDS: Art, Light, shadow, Mother Calvert, going home (not that one).

Nonknowledge by Georges Bataille (1958)
00:31:10 mp3 / Mispronounced English, lose train of thought and speech in the middle / ISBN 0816635048
KEYWORDS: Philosophy, anti-philosophy, systematic anything is inadequate, chatter of knowledge becomes balm that pacifies, illumination without gain.

What is a myth by Karen Armstrong (2005)
00:14:47 mp3 / No problem except the war / ISBN 184195716X
KEYWORDS: History, myth as another form of knowledge, myth is not reason.