Konrad Glogowski

Konrad Glogowski edited the bio of Winfried Georg Sebald Monday, August 17 2009.

• Edited Date of Birth: May 18, 1944
• Edited Place of Birth: Wertach im Allgäu,,Germany
• Edited Date of Death: December 14, 2001
• Edited Gender: Male
• Edited Nationality: German

Konrad Glogowski edited the quotations of The Art of Travel Wednesday, August 5 2009.

• Added a quotation: “It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are (p.56).”

Konrad Glogowski edited the quotations of The Art of Travel Wednesday, August 5 2009.

• Edited a quotation: “... Which explains the curious phenomenon whereby valuable elements may be easier to experience in art and in anticipation than in reality. The anticipatory and artistic imaginations omit and compress; they cut away the periods of boredom and direct our attention to critical moments, and thus, without either lying or embellishing, they lend to life a vividness and a coherence that it may lack in the distracting wooliness of the present.present (pp.14-15).”

Konrad Glogowski edited the quotations of The Art of Travel Wednesday, August 5 2009.

• Added a quotation: “... Which explains the curious phenomenon whereby valuable elements may be easier to experience in art and in anticipation than in reality. The anticipatory and artistic imaginations omit and compress; they cut away the periods of boredom and direct our attention to critical moments, and thus, without either lying or embellishing, they lend to life a vividness and a coherence that it may lack in the distracting wooliness of the present.”