#on tragedy

[dejavrai]

if you rely on others to do your thinking for you, it will not be surprising if you get taken in by frauds

[sailermoon]

Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” | Aeschylus, The Oresteia

[stanestreet]

On R. S. Thomas (1913–2000), Welsh poet and Anglican priest.

[daethelflaed]

heyy u seem cool. would u like to take part in a tragedy of such middling proportions that we are both all the more profoundly shaken by it?

[dr4gme]

About wocwog HJ. I love him. He's so raw, and there's so much pain and rage.

[excerptum]

Tragedies made her feel something, everything. She loved it too much she turned her life into one. It wasn't so tragic after all.

Viela, Musings

[virgin-martyr]

Tragedy happens only when you are trying to live well. Because for a heedless person who doesn’t have deep commitments to others, Agamemnon’s conflict isn’t a tragedy. Somebody who’s a bad person would, could go in and slaughter that child with equanimity, or could desert all the men and let them die. But it’s when you are trying to live well, and you deeply care about the things you’re trying to do, that the world enters in in a particularly painful way. And it’s in that struggle with recalcitrant circumstances that a lot of the value of the moral life comes in.

Martha Nussbaum: Applying the Lessons of Ancient Greece