Only a catastrophe can save us. –Zizek, paraphrasing Heidegger, who said in his Der Spiegel inteview, “only a god can save us.”More
Author Archives: Richard Q
A human being-question chasing after both God and nothingness. The internet is a disaster, but our starlessness might teach us something. I welcome our constant experimenting with ourselves with open arms, for ultimately they are attempts of life at living and growing in life. My dwelling is in Key West, while the dwellings of my loves are Indiana, New Mexico, Texas, Massachusetts and Arizona. These spaces are nothing. Love abides and love embraces.
Some dumb idea
This world . . . ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measure going out. –HeraclitusMore
The monotonous constancy of things
The best turned weary of their works. –Thus Spoke ZarathustraMore
Ben She Said (a Monologue)
Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence… –KierkegaardMore
Two Notes on (Overcoming) Nihilism II of II
There was another, even more unexpected guest behind him when I opened the doorMore
Two Notes on (Overcoming) Nihilism I of II
There was another, even more unexpected guest behind him when I opened the doorMore
Charged for every apple
There will be no ‘other world’More
Forced to stay silent
It will not be televised, it will not be seenMore
Around the same time every day
Joy covers you as well as infests youMore
All teachings sublime
O ME, man of slack faith so long! / Standing aloof—denying portions so long…. –WhitmanMore
I wonder what life would have been…
Experience the warmth/ before you grow old. –Brandon BoydMore
The Salvation
Everything except our hearts traveled into space….More
If all nights were like this
Awakening is a bound…a bound out of the drunkenness of remorse and resentment. –Alphonso LingisMore
Darkest secrets the last to mention
The ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ is a condition of the heart — not something that comes ‘upon the earth’ or ‘after death’. –NietzscheMore
But another dance move
All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land…. Genesis 8:19More
Love the Dust 