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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

The Detective Novel (German Der Detektiv-Roman) is an essay by Siegfried Kracauer written between 1923 and 1925, in which he concerned himself with the everyday life phenomenon of modern civil society. In its first section Kracauer makes use of the Kierkegaardian concept of median being.


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