February 2012
“Science is an inherent contradiction — systematic wonder — applied to the...”
– via Brain Pickings
“On the meridian of time there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of...”
– Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
“This initial paradox cannot but produce others. Visible and mobile, my body is a...”
– Merleau Ponty, Eye and Mind
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the statues on the riverside stand solitary in the grey hours of late morning. a horse, a man: covered with verdigris and shrouded by fog. solemn and heavy with silence, the granite bodices of sunless stature seem to weep with stagnation.
they seem to be asking me how many centuries old hunger can be. but haven’t we found that even hunger can become a space to live in? hunger like ...
“When it looks as if you had made up your mind finally to stay at home for the...”
– Franz Kafka, The Sudden Walk
“How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware...”
– Barry Lopez
“The significance of that ‘absolute commandment’, know thyself —...”
– Hegel, Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1816)
sataniste:
“About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.”
-Carl Jung
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as a child, i learned only to believe in the philosophy of touch. i begged my mother as i will beg you: please do not begin to explain to me empiricism, idealism, realism, revelation. there is no need for explanations of the phenomenalism of my body discovering yours, of my fingertips discovering dirt, of your fingertips discovering the decline of my hips, of my hips discovering the decline...
WatchBOARDS OF CANADA - IN A BEAUTIFUL PLACE OUT IN THE COUNTRY (by Neil Krug)
“I quite agree with you,” Ulrich hastened to say. “There is nothing I am less fit...”
– Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities, Vol. I
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with only bones, we tossed aside the skin of sanctimonious fruit. stripped to hollow thievery, such hasty hands harboured cold below skin, below bones, below hollow. heart throbbed under layers of clothes, threatened to become the void it perpetuates. clarity became clemency became catastrophe. the peels of the clementines lay scattered placidly on the hardwood floor, the skin untouched and...
“Concepts can at best only serve to negate one another, as one thorn is used to...”
– Ramesh Balsekar
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with belated, bitter steps, i entered a strange living room, a stranger’s holy solitude. strange, the stranger purred, that you should come at such an hour. treading uneasily into unlifted darkness, my black pea coat still buttoned, my head twisted in the direction of a fevered tick. hour after hour was an ancient god with an animal head, emitting curt breaths in their airless,...
jusbuckingham:
Japandroids - Crazy/Forever
“From the earliest youth stirrings of self-confidence, which are often so...”
– Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities Vol. I
Thanks by W.S. Merwin
journalofanobody:
Thanks by W. S. Merwin
Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you
we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings
we are running out of the glass rooms
with our mouths full of food to look at the sky
and say thank you
we are standing by the water thanking it
smiling by the windows looking out
in our directions
back from a series of hospitals back...
“It’s like going around a mirrorless world asking everyone you meet to describe...”
– Diane Arbus
“[There still remains the question whether] he who discovers a new world in the...”
– Review of L’Art Chrétien by Alexis-François Rio in the Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève. (1842)
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“Inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what...”
– Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (1978)
“At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a...”
– Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary
“I apologize to everything that I cannot be everywhere.
I apologize to everyone...”
– Wisława Szymborska, from “Under a Certain Little Star” (trans. by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire)
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i. the models with their sunken eyes, living in their own universe of spirals and waves and geometric equations. the television static becomes stationary. the day leaned toward two in the afternoon, and the sky seemed to be unaware, clouded in a membrane of grey, a spectral dust like the sleep circles of the unasleep or the asleep, which seemed only to be synonyms of the looming century.
...
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divine labyrinth of cause and effect: a singular universe, the map of the labyrinth. and love, which lets us see the mystic, the angelic, the empyrean, the labyrinth as a whole. did schopenhauer, who seemed to decipher the universe, ever experience it - love? ancient wonder, the mystery of its colour and those who cannot see it, the eternal twilight. oh, how could anyone experience another wonder...
“—he could feel the outside world closing in on him, demanding his consideration,...”
– Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
“The famous ‘going beyond’ Marxism in an idealistic and humanitarian direction is...”
– Albert Camus, The Self-Deception of the Socialist (via fuckyeahemergence)