Word: cogito
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...each other, and fragments of self-taught Shakespeare are swept by the currents alongside recollections of patricide. It is here that Day exposes his full self to scrutiny. All is bared: his torturous conception of love, his conflicted feelings about his low class origins, his insatiable desire to learn. Cogito, ergo sum: And so from Day’s thoughts, a human being is born. Profoundly violent (apparently his sole solution to interpersonal disputes is his fist), he is also profoundly sensitive and reflective. And, while hesitant to admit it, Day is intellectual. Day is full of self-loathing...
...then one day I had what we hotshot English majors call an “epiphany.” Don’t we all live in a bubble? Isn’t that what Descartes meant by cogito, ergo sum? And didn’t the poet John Donne say that every man is a bubble unto himself? What makes one bubble more privileged than another...