[sublimerhymes]

Nativity by John Donne

Immensity cloistered in thy dear womb, Now leaves His well-belov’d imprisonment, There He hath made Himself to His intent Weak enough, now into the world to come; But O, for thee, for Him, hath the inn no room? Yet lay Him in this stall, and from the Orient, Stars and wise men will travel to prevent The effect of Herod’s jealous general doom. Seest thou, my soul, with thy faith’s eyes, how He Which fills all place, yet none holds Him, doth lie? Was not His pity towards thee wondrous high, That would have need to be pitied by thee? Kiss Him, and with Him into Egypt go, With His kind mother, who partakes thy woe.

[ukdamo]

The Annunciation

John Donne

Salvation to all that will is nigh;

That All, which always is all everywhere,

Which cannot sin, and yet all sins must bear,

Which cannot die, yet cannot choose but die,

Lo! faithful Virgin, yields Himself to lie

In prison, in thy womb; and though He there

Can take no sin, nor thou give, yet He’ll wear,

Taken from thence, flesh, which death’s force may try.

Ere by the spheres time was created thou

Wast in His mind, who is thy Son, and Brother;

Whom thou conceivest, conceived; yea, thou art now

Thy Maker’s maker, and thy Father’s mother,

Thou hast light in dark, and shutt’st in little room

Immensity, cloister’d in thy dear womb.

[scanis]

right at the top of philosophy study there is an infinitely large nothingness waiting for the person who studies them, even though nobody or almost nobody gets there alive. the person returns exhausted and perhaps even collapsed to the place they never left. it's like reading literature too. discovering the artisanal behind the artistic i.e. the gimmick used to elicit a purely physiological effect (if anything), but which many people naively take to be something more

[teamfortress2yaoi]

The Beach Boys's Brian Wilson sits alone in a church. (c. 70s)

[scanis]

i find it a bit strange when an author of so-called mysticism makes use of verbose writing, even if it is supposedly “sous rature”. at such times, i end up agreeing with that philosopher, for whom the individual who rejects ontology should keep quiet

[moratoirenoir]

[scanis]

Among mathematicians, the type that fascinates me the most is the one that specializes in probability. You can find in many of them a tendency towards ludomania and, consequently, conversion, even though on their deathbed

[scanis]

If I were a biologist i'm pretty sure I'd specialize in myrmecology. I've yet to meet an animal more fascinating than the ant

[random-brushstrokes]

Alfred Kubin - The Rat House (1902)

[scanis]

it’s very bad when you feel very sad and full of energy at the same time, because it feels like you're burning up inside. The other day I saw my hand and thought it was very strange that it had five fingers and not three or seven, so I thought that if the evolutionary process had been different, we would treat a face with eighty eyes, for example, in an equally ordinary way

[wintercorrybriea]

suehiro maruo

[thunderstruck9]

Fernand Khnopff (Belgian, 1858-1921), Le collier de médailles [The medal necklace], 1899. Graphite heightened with pastel highlights and a coat of varnish on cardboard, 17 x 12 cm.

[cameile]

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Summer sun says get out more  I need you, I want you  But I can't get this feeling off my mind  I want you, I need you

[scanis]

I really like the figure of the unicorn because it reminds me of that passage that goes something like this: “god is looking for what has disappeared”. In the play the glass menagerie it's very sad when they break the protagonist's crystal unicorn

[ag-th]

Disciplines

[ag-th]

mon compagnon silence

[scanis]