In 463 pages, Ms. Knox recounts her darkest moments in prison — at one point, she writes, she imagined committing suicide by suffocating herself with a garbage bag — as well as her routines there.
"We couldn't imagine committing blasphemy let alone doing it.
Those who lament, for example, that life extension will undermine marriage (imagine committing to a century together) forget that advances in public health added three decades to American lifespans in the 20th century.He addresses some difficult questions.
Goethe's observation that he never heard of a crime he could not imagine committing himself has its limitations, as anyone unable to read a detailed account of a sexual assault on a child will agree.
Another mourner, a high school student named Eren Yigit who is 17 — the same age as Ogun Samast, the suspected killer — said that he could not imagine committing such a crime.
At one point, Harriet jokingly announces that her best friend, the brooding, timid Sport Rocque, is "my husband"; later in the book, while listening to her parents relate the story of their own courtship, a vision of Sport comes to mind, and she imagines committing an act of physical violence against him.
One might think that, characteristically, arousal-directed imagining towards a sexual representation is de se in that one uses the image as a prop to imagine committing or witnessing certain sexual acts and, indeed, Todd argues that the engagement with sexual imagery can possess certain cognitive values, insofar as it involves the self in de se imaginative projects.
All that might console you a bit here is that, on the other side of the river, your pursuer is trapped in exactly the same quandary, unable to decide which bridge to wait at because as soon as she imagines committing to one, she will notice that if she can find a best reason to pick a bridge, you can anticipate that same reason and then avoid her.
Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, the state of Israel, or even for acts committed by non-Jews.
Camus imagined Sisyphus committed to his daily act; he doesn't encourage him to hope for a better stone and a shorter hill.
