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ON NOT KNOWING - EMILY OGDEN KARTONIERT (TB)

Emily Ogden's On Not Knowing is at once a memoir and suite of pointed inquiries. Her brief 
sharply observed essays invite the reader to think with her about problems she can't set aside:
not knowing how to give birth  to listen  to hold it together  to love. Ogden moves nimbly
across registers of experience  from the operation of a breast pump to the art of herding
cattle  from one-night stands to the stories of Edgar Allan Poe  from kayaking near a whale to
psychoanalytic meditation on drowning. Unapologetically personal in its range of reference and
idiosyncratic in its canon  On Not Knowing takes for its subject neither a life nor a library 
but a cherished world. Ultimately  Ogden wants to teach herself to resist the temptation of
knowingness: to encounter passionate love  well remembered art  and the new lives of her
children without forearming herself with a sense that these things are already understood.
Committed  as a scholar  to the accumulation of knowledge  Ogden nonetheless finds that
knowingness is  for her  a way of getting stuck  a way of not really living. These essays want
to learn with us to resist the temptation to cling to the wall at the edge of the pool  and
instead to swim--

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