To what extent is the "original work" original? Does mechanical reproduction destryct or re-create aura? What role does the audience play in the generation of aura?
Related works: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Walter Benjamin)
Related works: Tempo Curvo a Krems (Claudio Magris), Special Relativity (Einstein)
If the past can be reconstructed by memory, is the past still "past", or does it belong to the present? Should language abolish all the tenses and retain only the present?
Why do people in Omelas keep the tradition of taking their children to see the suffering child? The ones who leave Omelas escape moral anguish, but do they still possess true happiness?
Related work: The Ones Who Walk away from Omelas (Ursula Le Guin)
What if some day or night a demon were to steal into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more?"
Related works: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera), The Gay Science (Nieztsche)
Mortals become vain upon their finitude, whereas the Immortal become insubstantial upon the endless repetition...
Related works: The Immortal(Jorge Luis Borges), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
I saw Borges in Adam, but Eve—could she be Kundera and Nietzsche?Or I should ask, could she be Kundera OR Nietzsche?
Related works: Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch), Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)