Edward W. Said
Out of Place: A memoir
London: Granta, 1999

We turn to memory. Said writes,

‘‘The underlying motifs for me have been the emergence of a second self buried for a very long time beneath a surface of often expertly acquired and wielded social characteristics belonging to the self my parents tried to construct, the “Edward” I speak of intermittently, and how an extraordinarily increasing number of departures have unsettled my life from its earliest beginnings. To me, nothing more painful and paradoxically sought after characterizes my life than the many displacements from countries, cities, abodes, languages, environments that have kept me in motion all these years.’ p. 217.

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Unsettled Subjects met to discuss reading this book between January and April 2024

26 January Acknowledgements, Preface, and Chapter One (up to p. 19).

9 February Chapters Two and Three (up to p. 54).

23 February Chapters Four and Five (up to p. 106).

8 March Chapters Six and Seven (up to p. 178).

22 March Chapters Eight and Nine (up to p. 249).

12 April Chapters Ten and Eleven (up to p. 295).

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