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#me #unironically true. and funny because i have a goth wife

In the Middle Ages men lived in terror of the plague. Today they live in fear of the atomic bomb.

Mambrino, Jean. "Traduit du silence." Cahiers du Cinema 14, no.83 (May 1958):43-46

#the seventh seal #medieval #e #currently reading

Where is the mind, Arendt asks, when it withdraws from the world of appearances? It is “Nowhere”: “Though known to us only in inseparable union with a body that is at home in the world of appearances by virtue of having arrived one day and knowing that one day it will depart, the invisible ego is, strictly speaking, Nowhere.” According to Arendt, to truly think, we have to step away from the world of appearance and retreat into ourselves. Once this retreat is effected, we can pull the idea for contemplation into our mind. We move into our mind and out of the body — and there, away from others, and, in a sense, away from ourselves, we can truly practise thinking.

Cynthia Cruz, Disquieting: Essays on Silence

#cynthia cruz #hannah arendt #to read

mervynbunter

Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925)

#mrs dalloway #currently reading #woolf

dhaaruni

Some people have been saying

#to read #heteropessimism

funeral

We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that "I myself" is a separate center of feeling and action, living inside and bounded by the physical body—a center which "confronts" an "external" world of people and things, making contact through the senses with a universe both alien and strange ... This feeling of being lonely and very temporary visitors in the universe is in flat contradiction to everything known about man (and all other living organisms) in the sciences. We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree ... Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals. Even those who know it to be true in theory do not sense or feel it, but continue to be aware of themselves as isolated "egos" inside bags of skin.

Alan Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are This material may be protected by copyright.

#alan watts #We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it #the self

johnnycrass

u are NOT A SON OF ODIN u live in JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA

henk-heijmans

A bison grazing amidst Geysir fumes in Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, USA, 1995 - by Thomas Hoepker (1936), German

#trail cams

yepthatsacowalright

“Reading parts of ‘Moby-Dick’ is like watching a fireworks in which Virgilian Roman candles, Old Testament sparklers, and Shakespearean bottle rockets pop off all at once, hissing and whistling; you get the feeling the stage manager is about to blow a finger off. If there’s a showiness to Melville’s pyrotechnics, his erudition was hard-won. But this was among the qualities of his ‘Moby-Dick’ that reviewers found bonkers: ‘The style is maniacal—mad as a March hare.’”

- Jill Lepore, Herman Melville at Home in The New Yorker 6/22/19

#moby dick #to read

nomadki

Get in the habit of talking about your joys more than your problems.

#on it boss.

binatestars

Hal

#kcd

innerchildabortionclinic

to be clear it's only subversive to be a psychopath as a woman. if you want to be subversive as a man develop female hysteria (borderline personality disorder)

#prev <3 #also this is why binghe.

xphaiea

Excalibur, 1981 (dir. John Boorman)

#Excalibur

stuckinapril

Noticed that your soul rots inside of your body and you lose the ability to properly express yourself when you don’t read. Does anyone else know about this