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Things That Glow In The Dark

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is not a concrete jungle, but a human zoo.

*Narcissism is the earliest stage of human development, and the person who in later life has returned to this stage is incapable of love... in the extreme case he is insane.

is itself a threatening natural disaster.

The physiognomy of Paris, which has been shaped by social forces, is compared by Benjamin to a geological formation that has the attraction of a volcanic landscape: As a social formation, Paris is a counterimage to that which Vesuvius is as a geographic one: A threatening, dangerous mass, an ever-active June of utjust as the slopes of Vesuvius, thanks to the layers of ...rn, have become a paradisiacal orchard, so here, out of lava of the Revolution, there bloom art, fashion, and festive existence as nowhere else' (Benjamin arcades V.p1047 in Buck-Morss 1989:66).

is a place where time becomes visible and mind takes form.

In Mumford's view, the city, "with language ... remains man's greatest work of art," a place where "time becomes visible" and "mind takes form ... " In each case, the artifactual city is implied.

is the only desert still available to us.

is what lights us through the dark to Deity.

is generally strongest in those whose character may be called weakest.

Faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called weakest.

is the soul of religion, and works the body.

Faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.

is a gross little bug which people only like because they have nice butts.

Fireflies are gross little bugs similar to a lot of others, but people only like them because they have nice butts.

A jellyfish is one of the sun’s muscles.