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“I'm trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws and meaningless customs.”

Law House Fun Crazy Reflection Mirrors Mad Historical Driven Customs Meaningless Trapped Irrational Default

Book:Glasshouse

Source: Glasshouse

“Historical romance is still very strong in the market. Writers of historical romance are making the bestselling lists on a regular basis and careers are growing. However, since there is much more variety in romance today, the total sales of historicals might be down from their peak. The talk of the market softening is a reflection of this, and of the fact that one does not see big growth in this area of the market.”

Doe Stills Facts Bigs Might Today Romance Strong Growth Careers Growing Reflection Areas Bases Historical Lists Variety Very Strong

Author:Madeline Hunter

“I think Stephen Crane too becomes trapped in a myth that poetry should be operating at a certain level, that there's the real world and the reflection of that real world. I don't exist in any of these historical periods. I exist in the period in which I'm writing the book. So I only attempt to frame this in a way that I myself relate to.”

Thinking World Writing Book Real Reflection Historical Myth Real World

Author:Douglas A. Martin

“One cannot, without reflection, make some into bearers of goodness and others into miscreants, judging them by relative positive or negative criteria. These, like everything else, change according to historical circumstances, the character of a society, the time and subjective points of view.”

Character Views Judging Circumstances Goodness Reflection Negative Historical Point Of View Relative Subjective Criteria

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and to others, as I am now realizing it: I am all that I see, I am an intersubjective field, not despite my body and historical situation, but, on the contrary, by being this body and this situation, and through them, all the rest.”

World Body Realizing Situation Fields Reflection Historical Contrary Despite Contemplation Idle Identical Subjectivity Inaccessible Phenomenology

Book:Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings

Source: Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings

“The historical mission of our times is to re-invent the human—at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life-systems, in a time-developmental context, by means of story and shared dream experience.”

Humans Mean Stories Dream Community Levels Reflection Historical Species Missions Critical Our Time Developmental Critical Reflection

Book:The Great Work: Our Way into the Future

Source: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future

“The linguistic and literary reality of the biblical tradition is folkloristic in essence. The concept of a benei Israel ... is a reflection of no sociopolitical entity of the historical state of Israel of the Assyrian period”

States Reality Periods Reflection Concepts Tradition Essence Historical Israel Biblical Entity Assyrians

Book:Early History of the Israelite People: From the Written & Archaeological Sources

Source: Early History of the Israelite People: From the Written & Archaeological Sources