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"[...]a vessel cleaving the dungeon of the waves[...]"
You're Love in the Time of Cholera!
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Like Odysseus in a work of Homer, you demonstrate undying loyalty by
sleeping with as many people as you possibly can. But in your heart you never give
consent! This creates a strange quandary of what love really means to you. On the
one hand, you've loved the same person your whole life, but on the other, your actions
barely speak to this fact. Whatever you do, stick to bottled water. The other stuff
could get you killed.
Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.
Never miss a word
You're Infinite Jest!
by David Foster Wallace
While you1 consider yourself2 to be clever,
there are those3 who think you're just full of yourself or, perhaps worse,
playing a joke4 on everyone around you, and yet you are pretty sure that
you really are that brilliant after all, since people would hardly take the time to
get to know you5 if they didn't care very deeply about what you had to
say to them, to wit, about their lives, their hopes, their dreams, their fears, their
drug habits, and of course what videos6 they prefer to watch, since,
after all, your impressive vocabulary and tendency to go on and on7 makes
you seem superior, able to educate them, and really drive a sense of something
ineffable into their measly little skulls while you are not above making a cheap
gag or really going after anyone or anything or telling them about incredible
futures involving tennis, geopolitics, and
1Meaning you personally, not someone like you or your own
personal daddy, for example.
2As well as you can see yourself, which, frankly, may not be that well.
3Though we wouldn't deign to be so peripatetic as to name them here, mind.
4Jokes, though not common in Victorian England, were known to originate
sometime in ancient history, perhaps as early as the time of Babylon, or even before.
It is thought that the history of the joke plays an integral role in the mindset of
the characters depicted here, though you may disagree at this point, in which case I
am facing quite the dilemma in relaying this narrative, no?
5It is rather time consuming, after all.
6Ha!
7and on and on and on...
Take the Book Quiz II
at the Blue Pyramid.
You're The Metamorphosis!
by Franz Kafka
Though you think you're in the midst of a dream, the fact of the
matter is that your life has become a nightmare. The nightmare at first seems
horrific to you, but you are slowly able to adjust to the facts of the matter
and settle down and make do with what you've been given. There are those that
would say you're pointless and absurd, but you're really just trying to
demonstrate that people can (and do) adapt to anything, no matter how absurd
it is. Not that this will really inspire them to change, because they probably
don't understand.
Take the Book Quiz II
at the Blue Pyramid.
About Me
- Σφιγξ
- possesses wholly unmerited academic pretensions; examines love as an entomologist; collects haunted dollshouses; notes the lunar phase as regularly as the temperature; peruses field guides; reads like a serial magazine subscriptionist; functions through coffee and "mood" music; draws to the very corners of the page; takes notes on unlined paper; reads poetry as prayer; observes textual authority with the incredulity of fiction; suppresses the smart-ass answer(s); adapts as well as anyone beseiged by her own bibelots; she is a sensation seeker in spite of all of this.
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Yes...and The Castle in the Forest is also on my reading list, too.
I anticipate Julian and Creation: A Novel in my near-distant reading career...as well as the material contained here, if just for fun:
http://www.littlebookroom.com/france.html
The cringe associated with this recalled time is a signpost. I will never descend to that nadir of self-respect.
I will say that I am queasy contemplating about her nose here at all. I thought the refrain of unsaid fuck yous was sufficient.
https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/blog/2022/03/25/triangulation-in-psychology-what-is-it-how-does-it-affect-relationships-and-how-to-respond
I am reminded of this when I am reminded of her.
Elizabeth Finch (2022) is a slim tome, but I do not want to think about Julian the Apostate, like I thought about Gore Vidal, with her.
https://newcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch/modern-orthodoxy-in-elizabeth-finch#:~:text=Elizabeth%20Finch%20is%20clearly%20modeled,had%20in%20forming%20satisfactory%20relationships.
"With our expanded definition of Triangulating, cheating is Triangulation because your partner has allowed some other person, place, or thing to take precedence in their life—and especially over you.
What makes cheating so devastating is humans are meaning-making beings. We create meaning continuously at a subconscious & unconscious layer. Our experiences secretly tell us something about ourselves. Cheating robs shared meaning and turns it into nothing.
If most relationships are based on shared experiences, then cheating excludes a party to be left with feelings that are not real, and another party with secret 'real' meaning."
https://www.lianavibes.com/blog/what-is-triangulation-6-reasons-you-might-be-triangulated/
I would love to let you in my life, and plan a trip with you. To speak openly, and honestly.
I am interrupting this Saturday for a specific reason: to disavow Elizabeth Finch (2022). I love Julian Barnes's writing, but the elevation of atheism with aesthetic flavorings is wrong. I believe this is wrong to the depths of my being.
The recitation of the morning and evening Shema protects the 248 and 252 limbs of the male and female body respectively. The idea of "limbs" as understood by the Sages collapses with degenerate, biased rational analysis. The reproducibility crisis and the ever-expanding list on Retraction Watch should weaken one's assurance in academic infallibility. The languages of other nations best reflect their priorities, while Lashon HaKadesh approximates the most vital, spiritual Reality. It ideally should take an entire lifetime or lifetimes to understand.
When I pull back the sheet and look at someone's liquefied, black feet with the tendons bared, or the anoxic brain injury crying during tracheotomy suctioning, or the Superbowl XXXV Baltimore Raven linebacker with a mouth full of completely rotten teeth and critical pleural empyema, I observe the overwhelming evidence of extreme spiritual decline preceding physical dysfunction.
No matter how happy or proud these patients claim to be, their physical deterioration, and rapid decline tells a different story. I say that I do not judge anyone because it is too much work; in addition to caring for one's clinical needs, but I recommend self-reflection and perhaps vows not to repeat the behavior.
I do not say this in arrogant presumption over these people; and I have been unwell and physically altered in functioning, but I concluded in each instance that it was a wake-up call from my Creator. That spark of Consciousness can be smothered indefinitely. For those that acknowledge it, the Spark is always there.
https://radiopaedia.org/articles/pleural-empyema-1?lang=us
https://pointactu.fr/en/sante/onde-de-la-mort-des-scientifiques-elucident-ce-phenomene/
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Lashon_HaKodesh_History_Holiness_Hebrew/BIELCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Maimonides%20Guide%20for%20the%20Perplexed%20Hebrew%20sexual%20organs&pg=PA90&printsec=frontcover
https://books.google.com/books?id=BIELCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA15&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
"One who appreciates the seriousness of transgressing a Torah law - the devastating effects of such transgressions on one's soul, one's eternal life, and the world in general - surely feels more secure knowing that safety fences have been erected to make it more difficult for him to inadvertently transgress."
https://aish.com/fences-of-holiness/
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