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For Arendt, the possibility for creating such strange "gaps" in time arises from the character of thinking.
The importance of this is that a believer runs the risk of accepting bad proofs of the non-physical character of thinking and thus of the human soul.
To borrow from the great literary critic and Shakespeare expert Harold Bloom, "This is not just a question of rhetoricity or word-consciousness; it is the essence of Shakespeare's greatest originalities in the representation of character, of thinking, and of personality".
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One version of "Hamlet" includes a soliloquy in which Hamlet nails the very essence of his own character—his habit of "thinking too precisely on the event".
Creating an alter ego, i.e., a character or way of thinking of yourself that accentuates, magnifies, even exaggerates the authentic you is perhaps the greatest tool you can use on your journey to uncovering the true you.
The general character of John's way of thinking comes over rather nicely in the introduction, where he makes it clear that his hugely ambitious study is inevitably going to be somewhat wayward and cannot take itself too seriously.
Yet if "Parisians" resembles Simon Schama's "Dead Certainties," which is also about the limits of historical knowledge, Robb, in employing the techniques of the novelist, animates his characters mainly for "the pleasure of thinking about Paris".
Writing in the Nation, the critic William Deresiewicz complained: "Instead of thinking about the character, I was thinking about the author, and the fact that they were the same individual only made it worse.
That is the danger of the job, because it's a lot of thinking about a character, and thinking about yourself, and so one can fall into that trap pretty quickly".
Now that Ms. Fensterer's composition has had more than two decades to mature, the shaded nooks are even more hidden, the billowing flower beds are even more billowy, and the trees have become "characters," to Ms. Fensterer's way of thinking.
By character, we mean a set of behavior and manners of thinking that individuals use in their everyday life situations.
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