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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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"I have long had a theory that Nabokov knew The Price of Salt and modeled the climactic cross-country car chase in Lolita on Therese and Carol's frenzied bid for freedom," writes Terry Castle in The New Republic about this novel, arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, first published in 1952 under the pseudonym Clare Morgan.
Shopping and swerving:
http://books.google.com/books?id=75zOPUSRy6oC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Price+of+Salt&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pidSUtSHJ5TOyAGq5YH4Cg&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=The%20Price%20of%20Salt&f=false
http://claudeleveque.com/en/article/20122013/2012-nous-irons-jusquau-bout
http://www.moma.org/collection//browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A30498&page_number=106&template_id=1&sort_order=1
http://www.skarstedt.com/artists/jenny-holzer/#/images/1/
http://destrictedrevue.com/photography/1021017.html
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3DfyJRIT4jyaEdEcVd6SjVnS2c/edit?usp=sharing
http://thephilosophersmail.com/relationships/what-babies-can-teach-us/
http://listverse.com/2013/04/22/10-incredible-photos-of-animals-in-the-womb/
Pour être utilisée en temps voulu:
http://cnum.cnam.fr/
*dans les temps voulus
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3DfyJRIT4jyT2NZSXN4SGVLSzQ/view?usp=sharing
No harm that it does not happen, but a fantasy learning experience would be to attend a week-long Jyotish seminar, and then to spend the evening learning how to make vegetables delectable. My thoughts are that vegetarianism is impractical for a younger person in any walk of life, but as one gains mastery, or efficiency, or a releases torment, there is less need for caloric expenditure. The decisive organism is not just blowing off waste products of oxidation.
While I would never impose a regime on anyone, I think it is good to aspire to consuming less, and I love spices.
In the D-9, Navamsa chart using the tropical zodiac, I notice that Jupiter is exalted in Sagittarius in the 7th house, and Saturn is exalted in Libra in the 3rd house. The D-1 chart, of Rahu in the 7th house is very negative, with many reversals of fortune for a peremptory attitude to people and things; fortunately, this is the birth and early life situation. If reincarnational language, or metaphysical mapping does not accord, then one could say that the D-9 planetary placements are benefic placements of the developing self. If the 7th house signifies the marriage partner, then being in the domain of Jupiter indicates more of an arranged marriage with a guru or person who values higher education. Saturn, in the house of communications, signifies equitable exchanges and the follow-through with creative projects. When one considers accepting the karma of another person in a relationship, there is the obligation to identify and evolve the desired qualities using the narrative of the D-9 chart. The frustration of not having what is most wanted (Rahu in the 7th house, of the marriage partner, transactions, status) is to pare away the illusions of relationships and self-importance, to achieve a spiritual, committed relationship
cultivating education and religion. Venus and Mars in Capricorn is also benefic, for finding expression within the Law.
"Death is not the last phase of the sickness, but death is continually the last. To be delivered from this sickness by death is an impossibility, for the sickness and its torment . . . and death consist in not being able to die."
The Sickness Unto Death (1849)
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/february-29
http://www.barbarapijan.com/bpa/Nakshatra_radical/17anuradha.htm
"Jessiersky had soon discovered that Casamonte's maps, while not precisely inaccurate, were incomplete to the point of misguiding him. Where, for example, the maps showed one passage branching off from another, there were often two or even three others, and in places where they indicated only one, or at most two stories, there were frequently many more, one above another. Jessiersky had thought that, in general, he would be able to walk along one level, but he found before long that he had to deal with three dimensions. One level rose up above another, and the whole interior of the earth seemed riddled with tunnels and cavities, like a honeycomb or sponge, so that it would have required descriptive geometry to give the true picture. The maps were not actual representations; they merely simplified diagrams. Details were sacrificed for the sake of overall clarity. Moreover, the maps were drawn on a small scale so that large areas could be shown on a single page and give the impression of vastness. The final result was not so much a distortion as a modification of reality.
Cardinal Chigi, however, may very well have been pleased with them. Seated at the desk in his palace, leafing through the expensively bound copy which had just been handed to him, he undoubtedly noted with satisfaction that the dedication composed in Latin distichs contained a reference to the supposed descent from a patrician gens. [...] Unfortunately, however, Casamonte's poetry carried over into the maps. For to leave out the unessential is of the essence in poetry. And in the dedication, Casamonte had not only failed to mention that the patrician Chigis, who claimed to be relatives of the Juliuses and Flaviuses, were really descended from an obscure and quite ordinary banker; but also suppressed everything on the maps that might have marred the general effect of the beautifully ornamented pages.
To the cardinal, in his castle with its broad vista, this was not in the least disturbing. He had never set foot into the underworld of Rome, except once, or perhaps twice, when a service had been held in the tomb chapel of St. Cecilia. But to a man who was about to lose his way in the catacombs, those beautiful pages were profoundly disturbing, and Alexander Jessiersky cursed the tendency of the world to color everything to suit its taste and needs. He himself, of course, had once been in favor of this kind of coloring. But now he was in favor of it no longer.
He was now willing to admit, however, that his attempt to flee from the moon through the catacombs, without any previous reconnoitering, had been rank foolishness."
-Jane B. Greene's 1956 translation of Alexander Lernet-Holenia's Der Graf Luna (Die phantastischen Romane) (1955)
Exercise 86 will go here.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44030924?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6PkFFSAapUC&pg=PA41&dq=tomb(e)+cixous&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjNlpjyq-ffAhXIT98KHZpjCCgQ6AEIPzAE#v=onepage&q=tomb(e)%20cixous&f=false
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsA4BY25Ql_1lBviWxrd_bDXRrxA
Late entry.
I volunteered to be paid not to come to work with the provision that I would call at 1100 to assess the patient census and needs. It is extremely unpleasant to be liberated and obligated at once. In the past, I have not called and no one needed me. My preference is to work every day that I am scheduled without this uncertainty.
https://books.google.com/books?id=9EkrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA11&dq=sickness+unto+death+%22nor+could+someone+substitute+a+speculative+system%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiX4b_85uzoAhU3gnIEHQswC0UQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=sickness%20unto%20death%20%22nor%20could%20someone%20substitute%20a%20speculative%20system%22&f=false
I will put Exercise 88 here.
Late entry. Thank you for reminding me.
https://1drv.ms/i/s!AsA4BY25Ql_1mH0feLup3O6cE3It
https://www.the-microbiologist.com/news/natural-molecule-added-to-toothpaste-may-help-prevent-plaque-and-cavities/1244.article
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