volonté

tout est faux, tout est possible, tout est douteux

[intentionalsolitude]

"The Greek myth of Narcissus is directly concerned with a fact of human existence, as the word Narcissus indicates. It is from the Greek word narcosis, or numbness. The youth Narcissus mistook his own reflection in the water for another person. This extension of himself by mirror numbed his perceptions until he became the servomechanism of his own extended or repeated image. The nymph Echo tried to win his love with fragments of his own speech, but in vain. He was numb. He had adapted to his extension of himself and had become a closed system."

-Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media

[intentionalsolitude]

thinking, wallowing, languishing, processing trauma, accepting reality, having false epiphanies, thinking, pacing around eating raw vegetables, listening to the wrong music, developing new sunday traditions, thinking, smoking too many cigarettes, seeking answers to unanswerable questions, choosing solitude, revisiting the past, choosing restriction, reading the present, choosing distraction, ignoring the future, thinking, drinking too much coffee, feeling the rain, opening the blinds, listening to the right music, thinking,

[intentionalsolitude]

"Call us what you will, we are made such by love;

         Call her one, me another fly,

We're tapers too, and at our own cost die,

         And we in us find the eagle and the dove.

                The phoenix riddle hath more wit

                By us; we two being one, are it.

So, to one neutral thing both sexes fit.

         We die and rise the same, and prove

         Mysterious by this love."

-John Donne, "The Canonization"

[intentionalsolitude]

John Milton, Paradise Lost

[intentionalsolitude]

P. B. Shelley, Prometheus Unbound

[derangedrhythms]

John Milton, from 'Paradise Lost'

[anotherdayinbliss]

Salvador Dalí, Cristo de San Juan de la Cruz, 1951

[urgetocreate]

Salvador Dalí (Spanish 1904-1989), Christ of Saint John of the Cross, 1951, Oil on canvas, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland

[nemfrog]

Date due.

Source

[urgetocreate]

Adam Clague (American b.1982), Cara Oranges and Coffee, 2022, Oil on board

[fravery]

"Second Hand Stories", 2003, David Carmack Lewis

[aemperatrix]

William Matthews

[derangedrhythms]

John Milton, from 'Paradise Lost'

[intentionalsolitude]

If you find this world bad, you should see some of the others.

Philip K. Dick

[intentionalsolitude]

I unbelong.

[derangedrhythms]

Ron Padgett, 'Nothing in that Drawer'

[ryebreadgf]

From How to Be Perfect by Ron Padgett

[zegalba]

Heiko Hellwig: Silicon Cities (2017)

Colorful Circuit Cities Built From Motherboards, Processors, and Microchips. Hellwig built these cityscapes last year using the guts of old MacBooks, IBMs, and even PlayStations that he scavenged from eBay and friends' basements.