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Novelist Orhan Pamuk, a Nobel laureate, said in a lecture yesterday that he was once a na??ve young man who read while lounging beside a stinking ashtray at home in 1970s Istanbul...
...after 35 years of writing novels, Pamuk told an audience in Sanders Theater that “being a novelist is the art of...being both na??ve and sentimental.” Pamuk said that he was using the word sentimental in its particular German sense—reflective—which he came to admire by reading Friedrich Schiller’s “On Na??ve and Sentimental Poetry,” an inspiration for his current lectures, called “The Na??ve and the Sentimental Novelist...
...make the most of Opening Days you’re going to need to find a party or two. Don’t fret, we understand your social na??veté, which is why we offer you a suggestion: Just grab a GPS-enabled iPhone and map a course to that massive cluster of your “new friends” wandering the Yard. Better yet, buy a hundred iPhones and turn them on right now in your dorm room—the party’s right here...
...Constitution intends that this debate never end, and it is na??ve to think that one side should always win. But most of the na??veté is on the side of the rule of law, whose temporary supporters today are willing to shoot amateur pirates but not rough up far more dangerous terrorists at Guantanamo...
...Na??ve scholar and teacher that I was when I entered Harvard a second time, I quickly received lessons in leadership that I hope will not be necessary to remember at Duke: When you take over a unit, fire or transfer anybody with power who does not owe it to you. Next, choose somebody with a high profile but tenuous backing to beat up on publicly. It cows everybody else into submission...