A dream in the sand

and some memories, too

[feignedremote]

Common Frank Bidart banger (from "In the Ruins," in Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016)

[studyinglogic]

Shades of Nietzsche!

[valencians]

you cannot headcanon your way out of overt thematic structures on which the entire narrative is built

[studyinglogic]

The endless play of interpretation; the hermeneutics of the open text; meander.

[kleinergeist]

Oh, so when YOU grab a Danish for a quick snack, it's a guilt-free, tasty little treat. But when I, Grendel,

[funeral]

“Whether a work of horror evokes cosmic fear is, in fact, the identifying mark of the genre for Lovecraft […] Cosmic fear for Lovecraft is an exhilarating mixture of fear, moral revulsion, and wonder…The capacity for this sensation of fear, which Lovecraft believes is coeval with religious feeling, is instinctual. Humans, it appears, are born with a kind of fear of the unknown which verges on awe. Thus, the attraction of supernatural horror is that it provokes a sense of awe which confirms a deep-seated human conviction about the world, viz., that it contains vast unknown forces.”

— Noel Carroll, The Philosophy of Horror

[studyinglogic]

My economics teacher used to tell me that money is cheap but resources are expensive. In honour of him: jumpscares are cheap but philosophy is expensive.

[aceinthetrap]

Dynasty Flowchart (Extended) – Nüwa Hanfu

An ultra extended flowchart for identifying dynasties! Even identifying sub-periods of each dynasty. As always, this is a general guide ther

does the makeup look sad or happy? >>> goth & sad >>> middle tang dynasty [lmao]

[studyinglogic]

Internal plurality must be respected; time must be represented; change must be demonstrated.

[rainformation]

formative years? aren’t they all?

[absolutejamer]

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse

[studyinglogic]

Very Daoist to say that all things are changing and that death is merely another change different in quantity and not type; very Buddhist to say that the true realisation is that things have no svabhava; the question of whether to locate this in ontology or epistemology is a vexed one; univocity of being comes in at least from Duns Scotus and I want to find a non-Deleuzian way of asserting it without illusion or allusion.

[corporationkills]

i’m building a database.

[corporationkills]

[library-graffiti]

Here's my addition.

[diesel-park]

(from the pallas cat "aggressively scuttles" vid)

[hyumjim]

Starting a collection

[hyumjim]

[climbthestacks]

Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis

[clementine-kesh]

[encryptidarchivist]

count dracula? uhhh ok. one

[cool-jpgs-of-wizards-with-swords]

🧛 nathing vrong vith me

[64mpg]

“but if i communicate it perfectly then they will understand me” WRONG 10,000 years of suffering

[jeza-red]

They can understand - and still disagree. "If I can make them understand, they will agree with me!" Not how it works.

[hotcrossedfangs]

[sivavakkiyar]

“Reading two pages apiece of seven books every night, eh? I was young. You bowed to yourself in the mirror, stepping forward to applause earnestly, striking face. Hurray for the Goddamned idiot! Hray! No-one saw: tell no-one. Books you were going to write with letters for titles. Have you read his F? O yes, but I prefer Q. Yes, but W is wonderful. O yes, W. Remember your epiphanies written on green oval leaves, deeply deep, copies to be sent if you died to all the great libraries of the world, including Alexandria? Someone was to read them there after a few thousand years, a mahamanvantara. Pico della Mirandola like. Ay, very like a whale. When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once …..”

— James Joyce, Ulysses, Proteus

[victusinveritas]

[kallistoi]

[image description: a tweet by cairo smith that reads, "there's a common misconception that brutalist buildings were unpainted, but thanks to microscopic analysis of the exteriors we can now recreate what they looked like in their prime." below are photos of brutalist buildings, edited to be painted with colorful ancient greek-style patterns and scenes. end description.]

[stowaway-girl]

[girljeremystrong]

[dogwoodbite]

[ID: Jeremy Strong of Succession saying "I thought it made sense dramaturgically." /End ID]