387 "Because one of the vital ways we recognize an I-Thou relation, according to Buber, is the .manner in which it seems almost to suspend time"
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As the love object, Bieber is only in the I-it realm. He is just a person amongst objects or even he is an object amongst people. He doesn't have the I-thou connections and is not complete.
page 384 "In all the seriousness of truth, hear this: without It man cannot live. But he who lives with It alone is not a man." For, alongside our relationship with things and ideas, we are also human beings wh meet and form relations with other beings . This is the world o I-Thou."
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They are just there. Maybe going through the motions. Not being raw, don't see the full picture of someone. I feel like the only person that fully knows someone is themself.
page 383 "ever-meet their closest friends, mothers don't always meet their children, and many a husband has never met his wife, though he may sleep next to her every night.
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He is just a product, not a person. Words make hin sound like a machine being adjusted or a lab rat being prodded
page 382 "he is a kind of object to be analyzed, tweaked, examined."
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he goes rogue. offers explanation of why celebs go crazy?
page 382 "What meetings he does have all seem to go awry: people get punched, phones are stolen, babies are dangled out of windows, drugs taken, cars crashed."
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changes tone here. went from a good thing to a bad one.
"tragic figure". page 382
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too good to be true. Trying to sell this lifestyle by making it sound magical and flawless. Doesn't take into account any backlash from the public.
page 382 "To walk into the world and meet love, from everyone, everywhere-this is a rational dream."
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Being famous- everyone loves you and you are an idol. object instead of a person... you aren't really real they don't know you as a person but more of a product.
page 382 "Why would we aspire to be doctors or teachers when we have before us the model of the love object?"
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Strange to think about. Music and musicians can profoundly impact someone's life. Hearing about it from a stranger might not even feel real.
page 381 "accepting professions of love from complete strangers: each one apparently sincere, each one essentially the same."
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I do not know which of us has written this page
Beginning they were distinctly two. Now he can't tell.
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Years ago I tried to free myself from him
he can't escape him
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I shall remain in Borges,
He is merging into him but staying partially separate?
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Spinoza
Dutch philosopher
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I am giving over everything to him, though I am quite aware of his perverse custom of falsifying and mag-nifying things.
Not too sure. Maybe they are merging into one? He is losing part of himself. (doesn't view himself as writing and is giving in?)
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no effort for me to confess that he has achieved some valid pages, but those pages cannot save me, perhaps because what is good belongs to no one, not even to him, but rather to the language and to tradition.
He admits Borges's work is worthy and successful but it doesn't matter because it gives value to his country's legacy.
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live, let myself go on living, so that Borges may contrive his literature, and this literature justifies me.
They depend on each other. Borges uses author to write and Author uses the writing to feel worthy.
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he shares these preferences, but in a vain way that turns them into the attributes of an actor
Borges makes his simple, modest interests in coffee and maps into a pretentious, disingenuine way. The word vain once again implies he doesn't like Borges.
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I know of Borges from the mail and see his name on a list of professors or in a biographical dictionary.
He has seen Borges gain fame or recognition. He is almost a voyeur watching himself.
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he other one, the one called Borges, is the one things happen to.
He sees himself in multiple versions. Borges is the one that has a more exciting life. He doesn't seem to like Borges as he refers to him as "the other one"
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