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Universal Dependencies - English - LinES
| Language | English |
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| Project | LinES |
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| Corpus Part | test |
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| Annotation | Ahrenberg, Lars |
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What the literary imagination faces in these political times.
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What the literary imagination faces in these political times.
One of the finest Israeli writers, A B Yehoshua, speaks about this in an excellent book of interviews, Unease in zion, edited by Ehud ben Ezer.
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One of the finest Israeli writers, A B Yehoshua, speaks about this in an excellent book of interviews, Unease in zion, edited by Ehud ben Ezer.
'It is true,' Yehoshua writes, 'that because our spiritual life today can not revolve around anything but these questions [ political questions ], when you engage in them without end you can not spare yourself, spiritually, for other things.
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'It is true,' Yehoshua writes, 'that because our spiritual life today can not revolve around anything but these questions [ political questions ], when you engage in them without end you can not spare yourself, spiritually, for other things.
Nor can you attain the true solitude that is a condition and prerequisite of creation, the source and its strength.
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Nor can you attain the true solitude that is a condition and prerequisite of creation, the source and its strength.
Rather, you are continuously summoned to solidarity, summoned from within yourself rather than by any external compulsion, because you live from one newscast to the next, and it becomes a solidarity that is technical, automatic from the standpoint of its emotional reaction, because by now you are completely built to react that way and to live in tension.
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Rather, you are continuously summoned to solidarity, summoned from within yourself rather than by any external compulsion, because you live from one newscast to the next, and it becomes a solidarity that is technical, automatic from the standpoint of its emotional reaction, because by now you are completely built to react that way and to live in tension.
Your emotional reactions to any piece of news about an Israeli casualty, a plane shot down, are pre-determined.
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Your emotional reactions to any piece of news about an Israeli casualty, a plane shot down, are pre-determined.
Hence the lack of solitude, the inability to be alone in the spiritual sense, and to arrive at a life of intellectual creativity.'
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Hence the lack of solitude, the inability to be alone in the spiritual sense, and to arrive at a life of intellectual creativity.'
During the Six Day War, Yehoshua says that he felt himself linked to a great event, that he was within a historic wave and at one with its flow.
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During the Six Day War, Yehoshua says that he felt himself linked to a great event, that he was within a historic wave and at one with its flow.
This was a pleasant and elevating feeling.
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This was a pleasant and elevating feeling.
But today, unable to see the end of war, he has lost the sensation of being borne upon any such wave.
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But today, unable to see the end of war, he has lost the sensation of being borne upon any such wave.
'You do not achieve peace from history,' he says.
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'You do not achieve peace from history,' he says.
The feeling of being swept along and of uncertainty as regards the future prevents you from seeing things in any perspective whatsoever.
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The feeling of being swept along and of uncertainty as regards the future prevents you from seeing things in any perspective whatsoever.
You live the moment, without any perspective, but you can not break free of the moment, forget the moment.
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You live the moment, without any perspective, but you can not break free of the moment, forget the moment.
You can not cut yourself off and not read newspapers or stop hearing the news over the radio for weeks on end, as you could six or seven years ago. '
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You can not cut yourself off and not read newspapers or stop hearing the news over the radio for weeks on end, as you could six or seven years ago. '
It is slightly different with us.
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It is slightly different with us.
Our media make crisis chatter out of news and fill our minds with anxious phantoms of the real thing a summit in Helsinki, a treaty in Egypt, a constitutional crisis in India, a vote in the UN, the financial collapse of New York.
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Our media make crisis chatter out of news and fill our minds with anxious phantoms of the real thing a summit in Helsinki, a treaty in Egypt, a constitutional crisis in India, a vote in the UN, the financial collapse of New York.
We can't avoid being politicized (to use a word as murky as the condition it describes) because it is necessary after all to know what is going on.
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We can't avoid being politicized (to use a word as murky as the condition it describes) because it is necessary after all to know what is going on.
Worse yet, what is going on will not let us alone.
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Worse yet, what is going on will not let us alone.
Neither the facts nor the deformations, the insidious platitudes of the media (tormenting because the underlying realities are so huge and so terrible), can be screened out.
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Neither the facts nor the deformations, the insidious platitudes of the media (tormenting because the underlying realities are so huge and so terrible), can be screened out.
The study of literature is itself heavily 'politicized.'
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The study of literature is itself heavily 'politicized.'
There is a clever, persistent young woman who writes to me often from Italy, who insists upon giving the most ordinary occurrences in my novels a political interpretation.
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There is a clever, persistent young woman who writes to me often from Italy, who insists upon giving the most ordinary occurrences in my novels a political interpretation.
A cafeteria lunch in New York actually refers to a meeting in Canada between Churchill and Roosevelt, and a tussle with a drunk in the hallway of a rooming house corresponds to D-Day.
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A cafeteria lunch in New York actually refers to a meeting in Canada between Churchill and Roosevelt, and a tussle with a drunk in the hallway of a rooming house corresponds to D-Day.
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