"[...]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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Brian Eno's contribution to this 1994 album is unmistakable.
Vermilion. 31st path.
http://www.filmsufi.com/2009/04/dekalog-9-thou-shalt-not-covet-they.html?m=1
https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/films/reviews/view/2309/dekalog-nine
Laurie Anderson's "Bright Red"
Yes, thank you, for reminding me about film IX.
I know it sounds trite, but taking care of my niece made me a more regulated, moral person by setting a good example.
I want to get to Ilonka Karasz this year.
*by giving me the responsibility of setting a good example
The metamorphical beast and the sun:
https://youtu.be/iVbo7_KJwBg
Late entry. Thank you for reminding me.
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"I live on the highway near the Puppet Motel
I log in every day
I know the neighborhood well
Now about the residents of the Puppet Motel
They're more than a little spooky
And most of them are mean
They're runnin' the numbers
They're playin' cops and robbers
Down in their dungeons inside their machines
Cause they don't know what's really real now
They're havin' fourth dimensional dreams
Their minds are out on bail now
And real is only what it seems
And all the puppets in this digital jail
They're runnin' around in a frenzy in search of the Holy Grail
They're havin' virtual sex
They're eatin' virtual food
No wonder these puppets are always in a lousy mood
So if you think we live in a modern world
Where everything is clean and swell
Take a walk on the B side of town down by the Puppet Motel
Take a whiff
Burning plastic
I drink a cup of coffee I try to revive
My mind's a blank I'm barely alive
My nerves are shot I feel like hell
Guess it's time to check in at the Puppet Motel
Boot up
Good afternoon
Pause
Ooh, I really like the way you talk
Pardon me
Shut down"
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Brian Peter George Eno / Laurie Anderson from Bright Red (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMRxQATUJNU
I know what the sanctuary is, literally and figuratively, but I am less interested in that, or Temple's debasement. Faulkner was thinking about the "whited sepulchres" (Matt 23:27) of the dignitaries and institutions. It would be difficult to talk about this novel in this thought crime age, yet I am tempted to read it with a turn on the word "rake" with a modern meaning since 2003 of a humanoid creature suggested on CCTV. The compulsion to provide video evidence of something real parallels the consumer experience of living more and more in virtual reality.
I like this cover:
https://www.pandora.com.tr/kitap/sanctuary/247727
This is my copy:
https://www.betweenthecovers.com/pages/books/424537/william-faulkner/sanctuary
Sometime.
https://www.abandonedamerica.us/abandoned-churches
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/30/william-faulkners-demons/amp
https://youtu.be/EjNkahQLD4w
https://youtu.be/3fR2qL7wy68
Exercise 90.
The abandoned churches are more resoundingly so when the hollow secret is revealed that one cannot abandon the mitzvot.
I will do Exercise 90.
Late entry. Thank you for reminding me.
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