NP but Walter Benjamin's Theses on History

[Mateus Domingos]

Thanks Mark,
I'm reading Robert Marfarlane's Underland at the moment, which is
fascinating and spends some time with Benjamin's The Arcades Project.
Well worth looking up. I find the description of these underland spaces
waking up memories of the underland spaces that tunnel through P

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On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 at 10:07, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> The most famous fragment, which lies at the heart of the work, was inspired
> by Paul Klee’s painting *Angelus Novus*, which Benjamin received from
> Scholem, who gave it to him with a poem titled: “Greetings from the Angelus
> on July 15.” The painting accompanied Benjamin for some 20 years of his
> life, and, as he describes it, pictures the angel of history being blown
> backward into the future by the forces of progress piling ruins at his
> feet.
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