Cultural Complicities
School can take the place of the family milieubut it depends on which school, of course. Éva Thomassin, as we have seen, daughter of a rich family originally from Argentina, boarder at a Lausanne school frequented by royal children and heirs of great international fortunes, shows that these exceptional private schools replicate this relationship of complicity with the cultural universe. "We took a trip to Italy, from Milan to Naples; all of Italyvisiting museums. I will never forget that trip! The marvelous trains of that era, the paintings I saw in museums. We must have been very, very well escorted, to have succeeded in getting us to like Fra Angelicos at that point. . . Unforgettable! to the point that when I see a picture today, I immediately recognize it. The other day I said: Ah! that is a Filippo Lippi. You don't forget these things." This cultural training always has as a social dimension: it is a question of mastering the culture necessary to efficiently manage the social capital. "They prepared us to go into a salon and know how to converse intelligently, in a cultivated manner." In any case, what characterizes the schools favored by the great families resides in the complementary fashion with which they assure the transmission of all forms of capital: academic, cultural, and also social, symbolic and even physical, by the importance granted to the body and sports. In sum, a complete education for a complete person.
Uncle Pio said that when they had crossed the bridge they would sit down and rest, but it turned out not to be necessary.
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“... But with or without God, I think it is a sin to kill. To take the life of another is to me very grave. I will do it whenever necessary but I am not of the race of Pablo.”
What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art?-a thousand questions at once suggested themselves. But one needed answers, not questions...
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“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.”
Regrettably, it’s an idea that will kill.
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What logic is there in continuing, until death, to seek a breakthrough with “more of the same”? ¶¶
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