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The nonidentity problem focuses on the obligations we think we have in respect of people who, by our own acts, are caused both to exist and to have existences that are, though worth having, unavoidably flawed – existences, that is, that are flawed if those people are ever to have them at all.
It is from within contradictory existences that some of our greatest works of literature have been born.
But in the watching there is no perspective: a satirical reading requires its various aspects to have their own autonomies, existences that reach beyond the claustrophobic neurotic ego that drives the narrative.
Set, for the most part, in the gilded co-ops of New York's Upper East Side and the expensive villas of the "new New Delhi," Jhabvala's stories lay open the rootless, chameleon existences that thrive in habitats requiring no firm commitments, just a bundle of money and a great address.
Ultimately, consciousness runs upward by insensible degrees from the lowest forms of life through to vertebrate existence, and far beyond us to extracorporeal (transcendental) existences that we can't even begin to fathom.
Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, author of The Gifts of Imperfection and research professor at the University of Houston, has spent the last 12 years figuring out what keeps us from living -- despite our best efforts -- the kind of wholehearted, fully involved existences that we're trying to lead.
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It's a view of existence that suggests that all experiences are transient.
Just as, on the basis of our human existence, that little boy was ours.
In the entirety of NYC FC's MLS existence, that would spell doom.
In a year and a half of label existence, that is a meager output.
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