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This blog is now a time capsule. I am no longer updating it. Scroll your heart out. ⤵

Blogging with you this past decade has been a privilege and a pleasure; an experience for which I am truly grateful. Thank you. From now on, I’ll be here.

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Quickly (for the final week of Nov., 2019): This piece on Zen Buddhism in Japan ca. WWII, and the sticky psychology of terrorism Add: 聖物 The Sacred Object, Nobuo Sekine Add: “The affection among young people for the word ‘energy,’ nearly always used with simulta-neous irony and sincerity, suggests a latent desire both to summon and to mock a mystical explanat-ion for the real.” –– Jia Tolentino

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Simone Weil, “Attention and Will” (trans. Emma Crauford), Simone Weil: An Anthology

[Text ID: “Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love.

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.”]

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Graeco-Roman chalcedony intaglio of Zeus enthroned, with scepter and eagle, dated to 30 BCE to 200 CE. The gold ring itself is modern. Found in the Thorvaldsens Museum.

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Marin Marais - Les Voix Humaines: Pieces de Viole, Book 2: Les Voix Humaines (arr. S. Napper)

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If you are not yet a fan of viola da gamba consort music, I hope this piece will turn you into a believer. It’s undeniably gorgeous and very accessible to those new to the style.

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Hildegard von Bingen’s 23 litterae ignotae, letters for her constructed mystical language Lingua Ignota. ca. 1200

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The ultimate truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They are not the way. The way is wordless.

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New shares (final week of July, 2019): 1. Add to your reading list: “The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences,” by Jason Ā. Josephson Storm, and 2. “The Invention of Tradition,” Hobsbawm, 3. Ferrabosco, Psalm 103, 3. Love

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