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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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Bice Benvenuto's Concerning the Rites of Psychoanalysis or The Villa of the Mysteries
"The fig-leaf covered the
genitals only after the ‘impossible’ fruit of knowledge
was eaten. Knowledge, like language, is the veiling of the obscenity of the Real; it covers and uncovers it like a dress but does not replace it. The analytical intervention
provokes an exposure which, even only for a moment, produces something new in the relation between conscious and unconscious, knowledge and truth, life and death, love and hate. From this fleeting exposure a friction takes place in our psychic settlement which produces a sparkle, causes that potentially revolutionary fire which Lacan called desire."
http://www.jcfar.org/past_papers/On%20the%20Rites%20of%20Psychoanalysis%20-%20Bice%20Benvenuto.pdf
http://books.google.com/books?id=7iZlhI1astEC&pg=PA130&dq=Lacan+%22The+closer+one+gets+to+shame,+the+closer+one+is+to+the+hole+in+the+real+from+which+a+new+truth+might+arise.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Dw-VU7C7A8ewyASRl4CgBA&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Lacan%20%22The%20closer%20one%20gets%20to%20shame%2C%20the%20closer%20one%20is%20to%20the%20hole%20in%20the%20real%20from%20which%20a%20new%20truth%20might%20arise.%22&f=false
At a critical point Monday, 9 June 2014
The energies in your life are reaching a culmination now. This is the time to try to bring your affairs to a climax, but do not expect to escape opposition from other people, for others have ambitions that may be in conflict with yours. Even with those aspects of your life that have been working out well and are now reaching a climax, you are not yet past the critical point. To achieve is one thing, but to incorporate these achievements into your life and make them part of your personal growth is something else. You have built structures and organized your life in various ways, and now you will experience the consequences of these structures as they begin to react and influence your life. Yet you still have the creative power to determine how your own creations will recreate you.
The interpretation above is for your transit selected for today:
Sun opposition Sun, , exact at 07:32
Jupiter conjunction MC: A highlight
From 18 September 2015 until 27 September 2015: This is a period of culmination in which you make a greater effort to get where you want to be, either in your profession or in some other area. And your efforts appear to produce results more easily than at just about any other time. Therefore you feel better about yourself and your life than at other times, and you feel confident that you can handle anything that comes your way.
If you are in business for yourself, you should be careful not to expand too rapidly or overextend yourself. You might leave yourself vulnerable to the more difficult times that will eventually come. Make sure that all expansion is carefully planned and that you have safeguards against future times of difficulty.
Another negative side of this influence will come up if you do not get the recognition that you feel you deserve. If others do not acknowledge you openly, you may feel cheated and go on to assume the station and privilege that you think you deserve. Even if you are recognized, you may act arrogant and smug. Be careful of this, because it creates a negative energy that could lead to your total downfall when this influence is no longer in effect.
In general the sphere of your activities will broaden at this time, and you will probably meet new people from unfamiliar parts of the country and even from other parts of the world. They may come into your expanding sphere of action, or you may travel to their worlds. All of this is most likely to happen through your work rather than your personal life.
http://www.andreageyer.info/projects/constellations/constellations_05.html
https://books.google.com/books?id=CK2hCgAAQBAJ&ppis=_c&lpg=PT72&dq=hester%20thrale%20%22amphibious%22&pg=PT72#v=onepage&q=hester%20thrale%20%22amphibious%22&f=false
Whether consciously or not, you have structured your life to be free of complications. I do not expect you to adopt my milieu as your own or give up your property and associations. You will appreciate being able to go back to your place without encroachment.
Instead of going through the medical mill, I will likely find some other arrangement. I do not worry about it, anymore.
"It’s simple, says the Talmud: If Torah, the source of universal truths, was eliminated, then the world would revert to emptiness. That is because humanity simply cannot survive without clear moral direction. Morality holds civilizations together; it's absence leads to chaos."
Amalek = safek (doubt) = 240.
https://aish.com/48944731/
https://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Perfecting_one%27s_Middot#The_proper_balance_of_Middot
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