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Catalan. | English language and lit 📖✨ a thickly sown radiance consoles the wanderer in the darkest night

[reasonsforhope]

"To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness."

—Ursula K. Le Guin

[weantuniverse]

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[monstermonger]

A dream of the fields

study

[lux-tenebrae]

The Philosophical Discourse. Lecture at the Collège de France by Michel Foucault

[stonedcymro]

[uovoc]

"exercise will give you more energy" gets said a lot as a common piece of health advice but I think it needs to be expanded into "exercising will make you tired while you do it, and you will continue to be tired immediately afterwards, sometimes even the next day too, but over months of consistent exercise, your muscles will get stronger and therefore get less tired out by everyday activities, making you feel like day-to-day life takes less physical energy than it used to"

[pensarenmusaranyes]

“We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.” ― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

[inkpressedpetals]

[radical-revolution]

"You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things. Why not go into the forest for a time, literally? Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books… "

—Carl Jung

[hallowedlore]

Some Thoughts on Narrative

Surely the primary, survival-effective uses of language involve stating alternatives and hypotheses. We don’t, we never did, go about making statements of act to other people, or in our internal discourse with ourselves. We talk about what may be, or what we’d like to do, or what we ought to do, or what might have happened: warnings, suppositions, propositions, invitations, ambiguities, analogies, hints, lists, anxieties, hearsay, old wives’ tales, leaps and cross-links and spiderwebs between here and there, between then and now, between now and sometime, a continual weaving and restructuring of the remembered and the perceived and the imagined, including a great deal of wishful thinking and a variable quantity of deliberate or non-deliberate fictionalizing, to reassure ourselves or for the pleasure of it, and also some deliberate or semi-deliberate falsification in order to mislead a rival or persuade a friend or escape despair; and so sooner have we made one of these patterns of words than we may, like Shelley’s cloud, laugh, and arise, and unbuild it again.

Ursula K. Le Guin, Some Thoughts on Narrative, 1980, from Dreams Must Explain Themselves

[wellconstructedsentences]

Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe . . . A fantasy is a journey. It is a journey into the subconscious mind, just as psychoanalysis is. Like psychoanalysis, it can be dangerous; and it will change you.

Dreams Must Explain Themselves by Ursula Le Guin

[ilynpilled]

[brechtian]

It’s an Ursula k le Guin free your mind from the idea of deserving kind of day

[nonstandardrepertoire]

can't believe Isaac Asimov is out here making "did you just misgender me???" posts in all of 1986. truly ahead of his time in this and absolutely no other way

[seretanspostblog]

"You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. And wish from this day forth never to be parted from you."

Mr. Darcy/Pride and Prejudice

[vexheart]

[weltenwellen]

Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score