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Friedrich Nietzsche, from Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Why are none of these photos on tumblr? Have we all forgotten what happened in 1996?

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The Sacred

. . . I inhabited not life but death.

As far back as I can remember

cadavers rose up before me:

"You turn away, hide, renounce in vain...

You are part of the family and you will join us this evening."

They held forth, tender and sardonic,

or else,

in the image of Christ, the eternally humiliated, the insane

executioner,

they held out their arms.

From East to West

from country to country from city to city

I walked among graves.

Soon the ground slipped away.

Whether grassy or paved,

I floated,

suspended between heaven and earth,

between ceiling and floor.

My eyes rolled back in pain

presented their fibrous orbs to the world,

my hands, mutilated hooks,

carried a senseless heritage.

I straddled the clouds

with the frenzy of a madwoman

or a beggar of friendship.

Feeling somewhat of a monster,

I no longer recognised the people

I nevertheless liked.

They saw me alight upon

the heaven of Diorama

where chilled to the bone

I slowly petrified

until becoming

a perfect ornament.

---Laure

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In 1936, Georges Bataille created Acephale, a public review which published five issues from 1936 to 1939. In this magazine, Bataille and other prominent French intellectuals of the time published their essays and reviews.

The central theme of the review was predicared on the works of the prominent philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: Bataille and his colleagues were outraged because Nietzsche’s sister married the notorious anti-Semite Bernhard Förster and attempted to use Nietzsche’s work for Nazi propaganda the same time when he created the public review, Bataille founded a secret society also named Acephale, where he and his colleagues met to discuss a number of things including human sacrifice and all the most unpleasant things nobody else wanted to talk about.

The symbol of the society, which was also on the cover of the first issue of the review, was drawn by the French artist Andre Masson: the symbol features a headless man inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s drawing of Vitruvian Man. The word “Acephale” comes from the ancient Greek word “acephalos,” meaning “headless.”

Not much is known about the code in which individual members were required to follow, but what is known is that they were obligated to: 1) Participate in nocturnal, torch-lit rituals iin a forest beneath an oak tree that has been struck by lightening. 2) To refuse to shake hands with Anti-Semites ) To celebrate the decapitation of Louis XVI 4) To participate in mediations and assemblies of Nietzchze, Freud, and Sade.

Bataille was fascinated by the idea of human sacrifice and there was a discussion amongst members of the Acephale about the possibility of carrying out a human sacrifice, but the discussions were never put into action.

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From the Pleiades to the Eridanus Loop : If you stare at an interesting patch of sky long enough, will it look different? In the case of Pleiades and Hyades star clusters – and surrounding regions – the answer is: yes, pretty different. Long duration camera exposures reveal an intricate network of interwoven interstellar dust and gas that was previously invisible not only to the eye but to lower exposure images. In the featured wide and deep mosaic, the dust stands out spectacularly, with the familiar Pleaides star cluster visible as the blue patch near the top of the image. Blue is the color of the Pleiades’ most massive stars, whose distinctive light reflects from nearby fine dust. On the upper left is the Hyades star cluster surrounding the bright, orange, foreground-star Aldebaran. Red glowing emission nebula highlight the bottom of the image, including the curving vertical red ribbon known as the Eridanus Loop. The pervasive dust clouds appear typically in light brown and are dotted with unrelated stars. via NASA

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