So there was the bit where I was reading the chapter on teaching in one paragraph increments while watching my child in the backyard and then there was the bit where I was sitting in my chair reading the chapter on Other while my child was sitting in her chair "reading" and I know literature is supposed to be performative, but this is a bit excessive, don't you think?

I mean, I could wax rhapsodic about what Benjamin says, and I wouldn't be wrong, and her ways of thinking about a specifically embodied experience of theology, but the test of theory is the degree to which it can function as a tool-kit afterwards. Not "what do I think about this" but "how do I think with this". And Benjamin's book has given me a lot to think with.