Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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My last days in France before returning to New York: picking books from my family’s library, dissertation work, philosophy, poetry, art, swimming and big emotions

books:
Le visible et l’invisible (The Visible and the Invisible) by Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1964)
Phénoménologie de la perception (Phenomenology of Perception) by Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1945)
the poetry of Emily Dickinson
the poetry of William Blake
Message by Fernando Pessoa (1934)
Lettres à Milena (Letters to Malina) by Franz Kafka (trans. Alexandre Vialatte) (1956)
“Le Grain de la voix“ (“The Grain of the Voice”) by Roland Barthes
Landscapes by Christine Lai (2023)

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