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Words are found responsible
all you can do is choose them
or choose to remain silent (excerpt) / Adrienne Rich
all you can do is choose them
or choose to remain silent (excerpt) / Adrienne Rich
When our preferred versions of ourselves are not an inspiration, they are a tyranny (a tyranny with which we can humiliate ourselves). Our history of giving up – that is to say, our attitude towards it, our obsession with it, our disavowal of its significance =>
On Giving Up / Adam Phillips
On Giving Up / Adam Phillips
April 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
When our preferred versions of ourselves are not an inspiration, they are a tyranny (a tyranny with which we can humiliate ourselves). Our history of giving up – that is to say, our attitude towards it, our obsession with it, our disavowal of its significance =>
On Giving Up / Adam Phillips
On Giving Up / Adam Phillips
Proust and gratitude.
You and I spend a lot of time together. We watch and listen and learn. We change together.
On Muses and Time.
You and I spend a lot of time together. We watch and listen and learn. We change together.
On Muses and Time.
April 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Proust and gratitude.
You and I spend a lot of time together. We watch and listen and learn. We change together.
On Muses and Time.
You and I spend a lot of time together. We watch and listen and learn. We change together.
On Muses and Time.
Walking and falling at the same time. h/t Schopenhauer
April 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Walking and falling at the same time. h/t Schopenhauer
Man without a shadow
One who imagines he actually *is* only what he cares to know about himself / C. G. Jung
One who imagines he actually *is* only what he cares to know about himself / C. G. Jung
April 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Man without a shadow
One who imagines he actually *is* only what he cares to know about himself / C. G. Jung
One who imagines he actually *is* only what he cares to know about himself / C. G. Jung
Isn't the moon dark too,
most of the time?
And doesn't the white page
seem unfinished
without the dark stain
of alphabets?
Why Are Your Poems So Dark? (excerpt) / Linda Pastan
most of the time?
And doesn't the white page
seem unfinished
without the dark stain
of alphabets?
Why Are Your Poems So Dark? (excerpt) / Linda Pastan
April 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Isn't the moon dark too,
most of the time?
And doesn't the white page
seem unfinished
without the dark stain
of alphabets?
Why Are Your Poems So Dark? (excerpt) / Linda Pastan
most of the time?
And doesn't the white page
seem unfinished
without the dark stain
of alphabets?
Why Are Your Poems So Dark? (excerpt) / Linda Pastan
I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere.
Story of San Michele / Axel Munthe
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Story of San Michele / Axel Munthe
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Max Richter - On the Nature of Daylight
YouTube video by Fatcat Records
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April 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere.
Story of San Michele / Axel Munthe
youtu.be/rVN1B-tUpgs?...
Story of San Michele / Axel Munthe
youtu.be/rVN1B-tUpgs?...
I would like
in a faraway language
to tell you what I don’t
understand
...
You ask yourself what is
a place of your own
if you must fade yourself out
Minus One / Samira Negrouche ; Translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker
in a faraway language
to tell you what I don’t
understand
...
You ask yourself what is
a place of your own
if you must fade yourself out
Minus One / Samira Negrouche ; Translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker
April 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I would like
in a faraway language
to tell you what I don’t
understand
...
You ask yourself what is
a place of your own
if you must fade yourself out
Minus One / Samira Negrouche ; Translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker
in a faraway language
to tell you what I don’t
understand
...
You ask yourself what is
a place of your own
if you must fade yourself out
Minus One / Samira Negrouche ; Translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker
In the burning house I am eating breakfast.
You understand: there is no house, there is no breakfast, yet here I am.
Morning in the burning house (excerpt) / Margaret Atwood.
You understand: there is no house, there is no breakfast, yet here I am.
Morning in the burning house (excerpt) / Margaret Atwood.
April 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
In the burning house I am eating breakfast.
You understand: there is no house, there is no breakfast, yet here I am.
Morning in the burning house (excerpt) / Margaret Atwood.
You understand: there is no house, there is no breakfast, yet here I am.
Morning in the burning house (excerpt) / Margaret Atwood.
"What is most personal is most general."
On Becoming a Person / Carl Rogers
What is this? Our fifth session? Should I say it out loud? Yeah, I should. You can't heal something unless you're brave enough to say it out loud. I'm scared though. I'm scared to say it. Which is why I have to.
On Becoming a Person / Carl Rogers
What is this? Our fifth session? Should I say it out loud? Yeah, I should. You can't heal something unless you're brave enough to say it out loud. I'm scared though. I'm scared to say it. Which is why I have to.
April 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
"What is most personal is most general."
On Becoming a Person / Carl Rogers
What is this? Our fifth session? Should I say it out loud? Yeah, I should. You can't heal something unless you're brave enough to say it out loud. I'm scared though. I'm scared to say it. Which is why I have to.
On Becoming a Person / Carl Rogers
What is this? Our fifth session? Should I say it out loud? Yeah, I should. You can't heal something unless you're brave enough to say it out loud. I'm scared though. I'm scared to say it. Which is why I have to.
Bayes | epistolary forms | Clarissa's house within a house and young ladies.
Self-awareness, privacy and the (mis-) uses of power : a contemporary study in ethics, with annotated bibliography.
youtu.be/0wtfyrNbu7c?...
Self-awareness, privacy and the (mis-) uses of power : a contemporary study in ethics, with annotated bibliography.
youtu.be/0wtfyrNbu7c?...
Alanis Morissette - Your House (A Cappella)
YouTube video by MAD Entertainment
youtu.be
April 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Bayes | epistolary forms | Clarissa's house within a house and young ladies.
Self-awareness, privacy and the (mis-) uses of power : a contemporary study in ethics, with annotated bibliography.
youtu.be/0wtfyrNbu7c?...
Self-awareness, privacy and the (mis-) uses of power : a contemporary study in ethics, with annotated bibliography.
youtu.be/0wtfyrNbu7c?...
punching down
P: Aren't you supposed to be validating me or something?
O: ... You're lying to me. And it's exhausting. I've done this long enough to know when somebody is leaving something out, and you are definitely leaving something out.
The Last of Us. Season 2, episode 1
P: Aren't you supposed to be validating me or something?
O: ... You're lying to me. And it's exhausting. I've done this long enough to know when somebody is leaving something out, and you are definitely leaving something out.
The Last of Us. Season 2, episode 1
April 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
punching down
P: Aren't you supposed to be validating me or something?
O: ... You're lying to me. And it's exhausting. I've done this long enough to know when somebody is leaving something out, and you are definitely leaving something out.
The Last of Us. Season 2, episode 1
P: Aren't you supposed to be validating me or something?
O: ... You're lying to me. And it's exhausting. I've done this long enough to know when somebody is leaving something out, and you are definitely leaving something out.
The Last of Us. Season 2, episode 1
"By combining two conversations that occur at different times, he creates the illusion of a flashback"
Vargas Llosa Among the Postmodernists / M.Keith Booker
Vargas Llosa Among the Postmodernists / M.Keith Booker
April 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
"By combining two conversations that occur at different times, he creates the illusion of a flashback"
Vargas Llosa Among the Postmodernists / M.Keith Booker
Vargas Llosa Among the Postmodernists / M.Keith Booker
Wrestling with the Paradox of Tolerance
Possibly Phobos and Ares in Ares's chariot (510-530 BCE)
Possibly Phobos and Ares in Ares's chariot (510-530 BCE)
April 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Wrestling with the Paradox of Tolerance
Possibly Phobos and Ares in Ares's chariot (510-530 BCE)
Possibly Phobos and Ares in Ares's chariot (510-530 BCE)
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
The Open Society and Its Enemies / Karl R. Popper
Theory of Falsification
The Open Society and Its Enemies / Karl R. Popper
Theory of Falsification
April 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
The Open Society and Its Enemies / Karl R. Popper
Theory of Falsification
The Open Society and Its Enemies / Karl R. Popper
Theory of Falsification
Why should the area of the skin, which guarantees a human being’s existence in space, be most despised and left to the tender mercies of the senses? I could not understand the laws governing the motion of thought ... =>
youtu.be/I46RtsJm_Kw?...
youtu.be/I46RtsJm_Kw?...
Closer
YouTube video by Ane Brun - Topic
youtu.be
April 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Why should the area of the skin, which guarantees a human being’s existence in space, be most despised and left to the tender mercies of the senses? I could not understand the laws governing the motion of thought ... =>
youtu.be/I46RtsJm_Kw?...
youtu.be/I46RtsJm_Kw?...
This was the final dumping ground. He thought of Janvier's "Sargasso Sea." Just as that imaginary body of water was a history of civilization in the form of a marine junkyard, the studio lot was one in the form of a dream dump. A Sargasso of the imagination! Day of the Locust / Nathanael West
April 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This was the final dumping ground. He thought of Janvier's "Sargasso Sea." Just as that imaginary body of water was a history of civilization in the form of a marine junkyard, the studio lot was one in the form of a dream dump. A Sargasso of the imagination! Day of the Locust / Nathanael West
Endurance Art: There is no new experience in life Something may happen to u that u think has never happened before that u think is brand new, but u are mistaken U have only to see or smell or hear or feel a certain something and u will discover that this experience u thought was new has happened b 4
April 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Endurance Art: There is no new experience in life Something may happen to u that u think has never happened before that u think is brand new, but u are mistaken U have only to see or smell or hear or feel a certain something and u will discover that this experience u thought was new has happened b 4
Tenderness and rot
share a border.
And rot is an
aggressive neighbor
whose iridescence
keeps creeping over
No lessons
can be drawn
from this however
One is not
two countries.
One is not meat
corrupting
It is important
to stay sweet
and loving
Kay Ryan
share a border.
And rot is an
aggressive neighbor
whose iridescence
keeps creeping over
No lessons
can be drawn
from this however
One is not
two countries.
One is not meat
corrupting
It is important
to stay sweet
and loving
Kay Ryan
April 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Tenderness and rot
share a border.
And rot is an
aggressive neighbor
whose iridescence
keeps creeping over
No lessons
can be drawn
from this however
One is not
two countries.
One is not meat
corrupting
It is important
to stay sweet
and loving
Kay Ryan
share a border.
And rot is an
aggressive neighbor
whose iridescence
keeps creeping over
No lessons
can be drawn
from this however
One is not
two countries.
One is not meat
corrupting
It is important
to stay sweet
and loving
Kay Ryan
An exercise in a novel form of mindfulness. How does one listen to the Vinteuil Sonata?
It's like, do I watch the video? Listen?
Old school aesthetics, I guess.
From a friend.
youtu.be/HYnpeY6MDi0?...
It's like, do I watch the video? Listen?
Old school aesthetics, I guess.
From a friend.
youtu.be/HYnpeY6MDi0?...
Lolly Jane Blue - White Swan
YouTube video by Sil van der Woerd
youtu.be
April 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
An exercise in a novel form of mindfulness. How does one listen to the Vinteuil Sonata?
It's like, do I watch the video? Listen?
Old school aesthetics, I guess.
From a friend.
youtu.be/HYnpeY6MDi0?...
It's like, do I watch the video? Listen?
Old school aesthetics, I guess.
From a friend.
youtu.be/HYnpeY6MDi0?...
There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
Possession / A. S. Byatt
Possession / A. S. Byatt
April 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
Possession / A. S. Byatt
Possession / A. S. Byatt
What Fassbinder film is it? The one-armed man comes into the flower shop and says: What flower expresses days go by, and they just keep going by endlessly, endlessly pulling you into the future. Days go by endlessly, endlessly pulling you into the future?
And the florist says: White Lily.
And the florist says: White Lily.
Laurie Anderson - White Lily
YouTube video by LukeK79
youtu.be
April 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
What Fassbinder film is it? The one-armed man comes into the flower shop and says: What flower expresses days go by, and they just keep going by endlessly, endlessly pulling you into the future. Days go by endlessly, endlessly pulling you into the future?
And the florist says: White Lily.
And the florist says: White Lily.
I wish I could capture this world with my words
And send them to you
So we can sit together once more, As the cicadas sing.
Song of Cicadas (excerpt) / Anne Harrison
And send them to you
So we can sit together once more, As the cicadas sing.
Song of Cicadas (excerpt) / Anne Harrison
April 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I wish I could capture this world with my words
And send them to you
So we can sit together once more, As the cicadas sing.
Song of Cicadas (excerpt) / Anne Harrison
And send them to you
So we can sit together once more, As the cicadas sing.
Song of Cicadas (excerpt) / Anne Harrison
if you must live darling one
just live.
K. Henson
just live.
K. Henson
March 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
if you must live darling one
just live.
K. Henson
just live.
K. Henson