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Title

Bloom's Morning: Coffee, Comforters, and the Secret Meaning of Everyday Life

Author

Arthur Asa Berger

Publisher

Westview Pr (Trd)

Pub. Date

Jan 1, 1997

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

ISBN-10

0813332303

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Subject

General

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$19.00

Description

Coffee, comforters, king-sized beds, gel toothpaste, razors, underwear, the morning shower—all activities and objects we have tended to pay no attention to—until the publication of this book. In a series of short vignettes endearingly illustrated by the author, Arthur Asa Berger gives Americans a profound way to understand their morning rituals.

Have you ever considered, for instance, that the digital clock, by producing free-floating liquid numerals disconnecting us from both time past and time future, could be interpreted as a metaphor for the alienation many people feel in contemporary society? Or consider our nightclothes: The pajama is the most immediate witness to our sexual activities; thus, we cover our pajamas with a bathrobe to guard against the anxiety of being revealed to other family members. The pajama is intricately connected to human shame.

Bloom’s Morning, with thirty-six short chapters bracketed by brief essays on the nature of semiotic analysis, is a perfect book for the inquisitive mind. It is chock-full of valuable and quirky nuggets from this most interesting of social commentators—items that, taken together, give us a new vision through which to understand ourselves.

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