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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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Blue Arrows. I like it so much, and it was the sound of I. Voyant d’èxces.
http://www.wikiart.org/en/remedios-varo/eyes-on-the-table-1938#supersized-artistPaintings-276547
There are one's eyes and the corrective lenses of another person, and the grasping hairs modeling Velcro.
I am finishing Exercise19 on my lap; therefore, the intermission is not entirely a loss. Understand that I am not entirely selfish that I cannot help someone, but part of my frustration is being delayed further in my realization of things that trouble others, more often, that keep them from participating. I would not feel this, with my own obligations; so do not interpret that I issue caprices, and then intend to back out when it becomes time consuming.
I am away often, now, to complement what is received in the hospital. It is not an unfeeling duty that preoccupies me.
I did not elaborate because I thought you would think less of me, a banal martyrdom. In any case, I feel very strongly about a person being at the bedside; it is so often fatal, for the lack of fluids or a fall.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/feb/06/on-breaking-ones-neck/
« Les amants sont inventifs dans l'inégalité ailée qui les recueille sur le matin. / Il faut cesser de parler aux décombres. »
http://initiationphilo.fr/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=373
Do you view the introversion of libido as frustrating our cause? Something always has to be held back, for real relationships. A good way to think of it is that our molecules are always touching, but the macroworld needs space to reignite.
Hermann von Helmholtz was born on this day, 31 August 1821.
http://www.awz.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news/news/single/artikel/hermann-vo/
I have been able to solve a few problems of mathematical physics on which the greatest mathematicians since Euler have struggled in vain ... But the pride I might have held in my conclusions was perceptibly lessened by the fact that I knew that the solution of these problems had almost always come to me as the gradual generalization of favorable examples, by a series of fortunate conjectures, after many errors. I am fain to compare myself with a wanderer on the mountains who, not knowing the path, climbs slowly and painfully upwards and often has to retrace his steps because he can go no further—then, whether by taking thought or from luck, discovers a new track that leads him on a little till at length when he reaches the summit he finds to his shame that there is a royal road by which he might have ascended, had he only the wits to find the right approach to it. In my works, I naturally said nothing about my mistake to the reader, but only described the made track by which he may now reach the same heights without difficulty.
— Hermann von Helmholtz
In L. Koenigsberger, Hermann von Helmholtz, 180-1.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3DfyJRIT4jyMGxjc0xBNVZXamM/edit
http://books.google.com/books?id=1MxrAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT419&dq=Jodorowsky+VI+The+Lover+XVI+The+Tower&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6GwEVLW1B4q9ggTc34Aw&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Jodorowsky%20VI%20The%20Lover%20XVI%20The%20Tower&f=false
Everything is irksome which briefly erases the dual relation, which alters the complicity and relaxes the intimacy: "You belong to me as well," the world says.
A Lover's Discourse
http://www.lisola.com/Products.aspx
http://books.google.com/books?id=dy2hZtmd5eMC&pg=PT119&dq=Clarice+Lispector+A+Breath+of+Life+%22But+my+own+aura+trembles+glittering+when+I+see+you.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-LAQVOPLIMasigKt7oCgDg&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Clarice%20Lispector%20A%20Breath%20of%20Life%20%22But%20my%20own%20aura%20trembles%20glittering%20when%20I%20see%20you.%22&f=false
"When two people meet, there is a dialogue on a very high level, seldom conscious, where the true communication is held, agreements are made, and karmic implications and/or free will choice decisions are put into effect by both parties through their relationship. The higher dialogue includes a precise recognition of the chakric attributes of the other person, any karmic ties, and reciprocal possibilities in order to work out a life’s mission.
The 95% that is not physical ensures that the dynamics of the possible relationship are functioning in both directions; that each individual in the relationship has the possibility of receiving the lessons to which they aspire."
http://www.lightnews.org/writings/writings-5thChakras.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P75LRxIu3w
The Moon transits into Cancer. The next:
https://books.google.com/books?id=KYJu3BOyeOUC&lpg=PA45&ots=cuX1RPZsRu&dq=et%20apertus%20est%20puteum%20abyssi&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q=et%20apertus%20est%20puteum%20abyssi&f=false
https://schabrieres.wordpress.com/2017/03/17/marie-uguay-des-fleurs-sur-la-table-dune-terrasse/
https://www.phillipscollection.org/event/2024-04-18-bonnard-and-bartlett-book-launch
https://www.locksgallery.com/exhibitions/jennifer-bartlett5
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/486315
https://books.google.com/books?id=2jdXCGxQOysC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA140&dq=%22In+this+sense,+God+is+a+Teacher,+using+events+to+show+what+is+called+for+from+man.%22&hl=en&source=gb_mobile_entity#v=onepage&q=%22In%20this%20sense%2C%20God%20is%20a%20Teacher%2C%20using%20events%20to%20show%20what%20is%20called%20for%20from%20man.%22&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=ZT0fPh0annAC&pg=PA117&dq=%22The+Torah+begins+with+beit+and+ends+with+lamed%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwim0Z7o-5GFAxWOjIkEHYVhBbsQuwV6BAgFEAc#v=onepage&q=%22The%20Torah%20begins%20with%20beit%20and%20ends%20with%20lamed%22&f=false
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