Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen
Reflections on Sixty and Beyond
by Larry McMurtry
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Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond
2001, Simon & Schuster
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Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: reflections at sixty and beyond
2001, Simon & Schuster
in English
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Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: reflections at sixty and beyond
1999, Simon & Schuster
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Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: reflections at sixty and beyond
1999, Thorndike Press
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Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: reflections at sixty and beyond
1999, Simon & Schuster
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"IN THE summer of 1980, in the Archer City Dairy Queen, while nursing a lime Dr Pepper (a delicacy strictly local, unheard of even in the next Dairy Queen down the road-Olney's, eighteen miles south-but easily obtainable by anyone willing to buy a lime and a Dr Pepper), I opened a book called Illuminations and read Walter Benjamin's essay "The Storyteller," nominally a study of or reflection on the stories of Nikolay Leskov, but really (I came to feel, after several rereadings) an examination, and a profound one, of the growing obsolescence of what might be called practical memory and the consequent diminution of the power of oral narrative in our twentieth-century lives."
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"IN THE summer of 1980, in the Archer City Dairy Queen, while nursing a lime Dr Pepper (a delicacy strictly local, unheard of even in the next Dairy Queen down the road-Olney's, eighteen miles south-but easily obtainable by anyone willing to buy a lime and a Dr Pepper), I opened a book called Illuminations and read Walter Benjamin's essay "The Storyteller," nominally a study of or reflection on the stories of Nikolay Leskov, but really (I came to feel, after several rereadings) an examination, and a profound one, of the growing obsolescence of what might be called practical memory and the consequent diminution of the power of oral narrative in our twentieth-century lives."
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