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...very self-referential, and that any explanation of the concept bends back onto the same concept again. The resulting loop, though, isn’t like most loops caused by self-reference, since there’s no feedback as in a noisy heavy metal performance or an infinite corridor of TV screens on videotape. So consciousness isn’t a regular loop; it’s a strange loop.Meanwhile, while presenting arguments of logic, clever bits of analogy here and there add up to reveal that the book itself is more than just a friendly essay: everywhere...
...impressive miniaturist painting seem careless.RELICS AND ORNAMENTSIt is little surprise, then, that the photographs which sustain and reward lengthy viewings are those that shift the focus away from naturalistic subjects. “Shamanistic mirror worn at exorcism festival” (1923) shows a large, round, ornamented, and polished metal mirror. Surrounded by swatches of a colorful robe, the bright, silvery-blue hue of the mirror is radiant. Rather than merely reflect the viewer—the mirror’s original purpose—the photograph offers a transcendent enchantment.This soft glow, as if the print were lit from...
...that sense, it's little surprise that business at the Baghdad Country Club has never been better. For many, it is the ultimate bubble. Escape is the club's most attractive offering. "It helps us forget what is out there," says a sheet-metal worker from Michigan named Alex Manikas, 63. "It is a place you go to keep you sane." On one hand, the popularity of the BCC is proof that a good time can still be found in the world's most dangerous city. But it also captures the contradiction of the Green Zone today: a place that...
...questions and demands, issued in Georgian ("gamarjoba," or hello), Spanish ("amigo"), English ("badge"), Arabic ("silah," or weapon) and Iraqi slang ("mamnoon," or thank you). During the course of a recent day of meetings in the Green Zone, I was sniffed by dogs six times, sent my bags through four metal detectors, was photographed once by a body scanner that can see through my clothes and was patted down too many times to count...
...crops to harvest. So Kelso was not surprised to dig up the goods they offered the Indians in exchange for food. Among them: Venetian glass beads (blue ones were preferred), sheet copper (a commodity prized by the Powhatan, who wore pendants and other ornaments fashioned from the reddish metal), European coins (useless in Virginia) and metal tools (the Indians had ones made only from stone, wood, bone and shell). By the 1660s, when the English had established a number of settlements in the area, the Indians were even issued silver or copper badges that allowed them safe passage while conducting...