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A Word about Words VIII of XIII, or, May I have a word with you
In the beginning and so onMore
A Word about Words IV of XIII, or, Eloquence, what a shame!
Eloquence–what a shame! The words that really matter, that make people melt or go off to war or commit themselves to some inner vision, they tend to be so common as to be crude or vulgar. Hammer: how simple, but what it could build! Child: how ordinary, but its possibilities! Painter, writer, thespian, friend, enemy:…More
A Word about Words II of XIII, or, You may say
In the beginning and so onMore
The power of contradiction
My today refutes my yesterday… –ZarathustraMore
A discovery
Das Nichts nichtet. –HeideggerMore
On joy and pessimism
Nothing human is worthy of being taken very seriously. Nonetheless…. –Plato, via NietzscheMore
Thoughtlessness upon waking
The self is a repeatedly reconstructed biological state. –Antonio DamasioMore
Reconsidering hell
A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am alone, I am extinguished. –SartreMore
The rub
Father Zossima brings the congregation together for a final word with them…More
A Metamorphosis
Why are we all staring at the same spot on the ground? Or at the same spotlessness of the sky?More
Spanning the gulf, or trying to, come what may
The true knight of faith is a witness, never a teacher, and therein lies his deep humanity…
– KierkegaardMore
Inventing ourselves
Sometimes it seems we are either dreaming of wholeness…or willingly fragmentedMore
An Example
So wise souls/ leaving self behind/ move forwardMore
Dawn in Hades
The light can be stubborn, and linger, when the sun setsMore
Love the Dust 