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is a fragmented person?
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And, I think, the fragmenting of knowledge across layers--
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what do we know, what does Moses know,
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what does Caldonia know, what does the narrator seem to know--
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that fragmentation makes it impossible to imagine a subjectivity
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for any of these characters that can truly encompass a stable world view.
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So, that fragmentation of self is another layer of the problem of knowledge.
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How can you know anything, when you're not a stable knower yourself?
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And I just want to look back to some of the other readings on our syllabus,
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to think about how these problems have been addressed.
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So, how do you know about the past in Robinson, for Marilynne Robinson?
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For her, writing is the transcription of consciousness,