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My Own Personal Soap Opera: Looking for Reality in All the Wrong Places--

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“when the great intolerance of faith was lost, the secular robe of office had to supplant the sacred one, and society had to separate itself into secular hierarchies with secular uniforms and invest these with the absolute authority of a creed. And because, when the secular exalts itself as the absolute, the result is always romanticism, so the real and characteristic romanticism of that age was the cult of the uniform, which implied, as it were, a superterrestrial and supertemporal idea of uniform, an idea which did not really exist and yet was so powerful that it took hold of men far more completely than any secular vocation could, a non-existent and yet so potent idea that it transformed the man in uniform into the property of his uniform, and never into a professional man in the civilian sense; and this perhaps simply because the man who wears the uniform is content to feel that he is fulfilling the most essential function of his age and therefore guaranteeing the security of his own life.”

SecuritySacredCertaintySecularRomanticismSymbolSignUniformPasenowThe Romantic
Book:The Sleepwalkers
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“Zaman hiç kesintiye uğramadan hep aynı şekilde akarsa, elimizden kaymaya başlar ve zaman duygumuz, yaşam duygumuzla öylesine bağlantılı ve iç içedir ki, bu duygulardan birinin zayıflaması demek, öbürünün de acı ve yıpratıcı bir deneyimden geçmesi demektir. Can sıkıntısının kaynağı ile ilgili bir yığın yanlış düşünce dolaşır ortalıkta Can sıkıntısı denen şey, aslında, zamanın tekdüzeliğinin neden olduğu sağlıksız bir kısalmadır. Alışkanlık, zaman duygusu uykuya yatarsa ortaya çıkar ve insana gençlik yılları yavaş yavaş, daha sonraki yıllar ise gitgide hızlanarak akıp gidiyor gibi gelirse bu alışkanlık yüzündendir. Yeni alışkanlıklar edinmenin ya da eskilerini değiştirmenin altında yatan şey, yaşamı korumak, zaman duygumuzu yoğunlaştırmak, zaman deneyimimizi yavaşlatmak ve böylece yaşam duygumuzu yenilemek arzusudur.”

Magic Mountain
Author:Thomas Mann
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