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Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things [Kindle Edition]

Professor Steven Connor
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`Recommended... Readers will enjoy the "eroticism of rubber", the fascination of pop-smoking, and the joy of fidgeting' --New Statesman

'A writer who can seemingly conjure the profoundest insights out of the most minute or mundane topics.' --Guardian

'Urbane, witty and seductive ... challenging and often enchanting' --Independent

'the little things we surround ourselves with and barely notice are as important as the huge things we obsess about' --Sean French of Nicci French

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A unique and quirky exploration of the stories and meanings behind the everyday objects that shape our lives

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 569 KB
  • Print Length: 268 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1846682703
  • Publisher: Profile Books (9 Jun 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B0053G0CPE
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #210,221 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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The author, Steven Connor, is Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck College, a post that signals the sort of book this is - long on literary theory and short on technical historical detail. It is not a more diverse version of, say, The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance but rather a playful application of literary theory to household objects. If that is what you like, then you should find the book highly enjoyable.
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a chair irresistibly proposes that one lower oneself into it backwards. &quote;
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time, we need the solidifying supplements of things to mark and grasp its passage. &quote;
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Beings like us emerge, evolve and die, because, we persuade ourselves, we are essentially on the side of time, while things, by contrast, inhabit the domain of space. But things also provide an indispensable adjunct to our sense of emergence and elapsing, duration and disappearance, forgetting and recall. &quote;
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