It is a powerful book, but with the dangerously charmed inertia of heroin's spell cast across its prose, which moves between story and writing about story, observing oneself in an act that for Trocchi was becoming untenable.
Estimated to occur in about 20% of patients who survive cardiac arrest, near-death experiences are frequently described as hypervivid or "realer-than-real," and often include leaving the body and observing oneself from outside, or seeing a bright light.
In fact, observing oneself engaging in effortful behaviors can rather ironically give one the impression of higher available levels of energy.
The best way to observe a monastic calm is to find oneself obliged to do so". There's a deep sense of relief when spring comes, and with it seals, ducks, insects, bears and drowsing in hammocks.
Suddenly, I fully understood something I observed at work all the time — how it was possible to love a frail relative, prioritize his comfort and well-being, and yet repeatedly find oneself doing things that felt awful to everyone.
'Being good with quotations means avoiding having to think for oneself," observes the narrator of Optic Nerve, a seductively clever debut novel about an art historian who sees her life through the paintings and artists who enthral her.
"In person" or "personal" (qin) is explained as "observing it there oneself".
It is worth the trip to Paris if only to remind oneself how Henri Cartier-Bresson defined photography as the art of observation, and to observe how his images still hold sway over our collective visual understanding of the past century.
The Trial Chamber did observe that "the right to defend oneself in person is not absolute …, as there may be circumstances where it is in the interests of justice to appoint counsel" (Prosecutor v. Milošević 4 April 2003, para. 40).
We did not observe a higher risk of postnatal depression or thinking about harming oneself in the physical and/or sexual abuse group.
