Knausgaard has a tremendous essayistic talent, and Book 2, like Book 1, is rich in reflections on everything from the sociology of death to the psychopathology of everyday life.
The nihilistic young characters weren't especially memorable, but they were hip and smart, and their reflections on everything from McJobs ("low pay, low prestige, low benefits, low future") to retro fashions breathed life into the slender, plotless book.
As someone whose relationship to that wildly popular digital forum has ranged from indifference to mild curiosity to irritation, I don't relish the thought of a steady flow of theater that consists of average folk advertising their daily accomplishments, likes and dislikes and casual reflections on everything from the presidential election to the latest viral video.
The facilitators explain the necessity of scheduled ethics reflection since there is too little time and space for reflection during a hectic work day; "You do not reflect on everything you do because you do it every day, and you do not think about what's in it for the patients.
In these volumes Scholem reflects on everything from the state of the university, general Israeli education, Israeli politics, the state of the Diaspora, and personal reflections of his own on studying Jewish mysticism.
Everything is a reflection of everything else, with no such thing as disconnection.
It is a complete reflection of everything that we are, everything we have resigned ourselves to being.
"These wages are a reflection of everything that is deplorable about football," Fourneyron said.
"Facebook was not in the index of my old book!" Wow! Thomas Friedman failed to mention Facebook in 2008, and that is somehow a reflection on everyone and everything else in the world, and not a reflection of the fact that Thomas Friedman notices things years after they've become apparent and then acts like they've only gotten real once he starts writing about them.
