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From: Flancian <0@flancia.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 21:25:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Auto saved by Logseq

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 	- #push [[walter benjamin]] contemporaries
 		- quotes from: [[marcel proust]] [[paul valéry]] [[louis aragon]] [[andré breton]] [[georg simmel]] [[ernst bloch]] [[siegfried kracauer]] [[theodor adorno]]
 	- in the words of the translator of our edition, the items on display ([[drafts]], [[excerpts]]) give rise to "[[a world of secret affinities]]".
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+	- [[benjamin]] abandoned the work in [[1940]] as he had to flee [[paris]].
+	- [[benjamin]] wrote to [[gershom scholem]] on [[1934]] and said that "not a syllable of the actual text of the [[passagenarbeit]] exists yet". So perhaps what we've got is essentially only [[notes]] for a work that was never written.
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