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.

in medias res

My life is so many fragments that I start to believe any dusty pile of themMore

What a stupid thing, vengeance

For that humanity might be redeemed from revenge: that is for me the bridge to the highest hope and a rainbow after lashing storms. Nietzsche’s ZarathustraMore

Stakes

But what help is it to us to look into the constellation of truth? We look into the danger and see the growth of the saving power. –HeideggerMore

Outside This Room

I know that outside this roomsomething gives signs of life,something twitches or boundsand could join my legs jumpingbeneath the desk, seer legs.I know but don’t leave the roominstead I make the roomsmaller and smaller, shrinkingits proportions to a pointsomehow I still fit inside.I still look outside the room,my microscopic room,to the vastness out therethe trees…More

A glance at perspective

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself. –Thomas NagelMore

A Note on Nihilism

It’s different, how an individual–especially a philosopher, trained how he could be trained in times of crises–faces the threat of nihilism and how it is faced generally, for members of a social body generally under its throes.  While the former holds his head above, or at least at a distance–two or three centuries worth of…More