Patron Saint of Awesome

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The asylum is a religious domain without religion, a domain of pure morality, of ethical uniformity [... representing] the great continuity of social morality.

Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization

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Calvary (2014) dir. John Michael McDonagh

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We speak of the virtues of memory, but forgetfulness has its own virtue. In the short run forgetfulness, the suppression of the past, is a risky business, for memory will haunt us if the fabric of society has been torn in our time or in the recent past, but in the long run memory rests or at least becomes blurred, the weights shift, different events become foregrounded, others move to the back burner. The present memorial cult seeks to inflict certain aspects of history and their presumed lessons on our children. But its favorite mantra, "Let us remember, so the same thing doesn't happen again," is unconvincing. A remembered massacre may serve as a deterrent, but it may also serve as a model for the next massacre. We cannot impose the contents of our minds on our grandchildren, who will remember what they need to remember and forget the rest, as society has always done. In any case, we aren't as free to remember and forget (in psychological and moral terms, to resent and forgive) as we like to pretend. […]I look at those who came after us, who are not guilty, at least not yet […] a child does not need to be forgiven, for it is a new beginning in itself. In retrospect it makes a blessed union of what was perhaps a bad marriage, redeeming its parents' mistakes by its mere existence. So we start hoping again. I am neither cynical nor starry-eyed. Given past experience, the odds are against hope. But you never can tell.

Ruth Kruger. "Forgiving and Remembering." PMLA 117, no. 2 (2002): 313.

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Lewis Hyde - A Primer for Forgetting

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Part three of my characters for my mock game “Crossing”. This time it’s The Lady of Forgetfulness (also known as 孟婆)  !

Part 1, Part 2, Part 4

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Despite having reads over 20 books on different understandings of forgetting across time and various cultures, I just learned about Meng Po yesterday.

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Netflix changing the ending of a Series of Unfortunate Events.

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↳ Are you sure is not going to explode into a fireball?

Paterson (2016) dir. Jim Jarmusch

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Wife had to leave work because of a gas leak and all I can think is...

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Love indeed has its priests in the poets, and occasionally we hear a voice that knows how to honor it, but not a word is heard about faith. Who speaks to the honor of this passion? Philosophy goes further. Theology sits all rouged and powdered in the window and courts its favor, offers its charms to philosophy. It is supposed to be difficult to understand Hegel, but to understand Abraham is a small matter. […] I for my part have applied considerable time to understanding Hegelian philosophy and believe that I have understood it fairly well; […] Thinking about Abraham is another matter, however; then I am shattered. I am constantly aware of the prodigious paradox that is the content of Abraham's life, I am constantly repelled, and, despite all its passion, my thought cannot penetrate it, cannot get ahead by a hairsbreadth. I stretch every muscle to get a perspective, and at the very same instant I become paralyzed.

Johannes de Silentio - Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard

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“We applaud both her dogged grit and the film’s message: that there are some people who, despite shutting everyone out of their lives in order to achieve their goals, can repair the untold damage they’ve wreaked by making a small admission of culpability late in Act III, followed by a declaration of love.”

— Richard Ayoade, Ayoade on top

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Goop celebrates Real Men, but Goop also celebrates self-love.    ‘When a trip to the sex store left product designer Peder Wikstrom disenchanted, he decided it was time to disrupt the industry.’ I’ve never visited a ‘sex store’, but I’m surprised that anyone who has would go with the expectation of enchantment. The USP of a sex store is not the renewal of one’s faith in the sublimity of the human soul. Nevertheless, Peder Wikstrom’s spirit had sagged unduly, so he called his former coworker Mattias Hulting, who was no doubt wondering why you couldn’t get a really lovingly made butt plug any more, and the pair created ‘four playful, sexy vibrators, bringing not just their sleek design sense, but also a sense of humor into what’s often an overly-serious, less-than-aesthetic product category’.    I always find this idea of people bringing ‘cheekiness’ to anything, let alone erotic implements, one of the most off-putting ideas imaginable. I don’t know that you can insert anything into yourself in a ‘quirky’ manner. If you’re going to insert, insert, but don’t kid yourself that you can insert something that has inverted commas around it – those things are going to hit the sides.

Richard Ayoade. Ayoade on Top

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But [their] hands are covered in blood. Bad blood. The kind of blood Taylor Swift hates. [Bad Blood being] one of the great pop-based rebuttals to the ludicrous notion of forgiveness.

Richard Ayoade. Ayoade on Top.

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Octavio Paz, tr. by Eliot Weinberger, from “Sunstone”, The Poems of Octavio Paz

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We quarantine against the plague—but to the plague that is even worse than the Asiatic plague, slander, which corrupts the soul and mind, to that we all open our houses; we pay money to be infected; we greet as a welcome guest the one who brings the infection!

Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Love

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Ordet (1955)

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Harris: “If Patriarch Cyril tells me to use Theotokos, I’m not using it.”

Pence: “The fact that you continue to undermine public confidence in the term Theotokos — if the term is approved during this Ecumenical Council — I think is unconscionable, stop playing politics with the veneration of Christ’s Holy Mother.“