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juan-francisco-palencia · 3 months

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Eine Blume auf dem Weg.

"The privilege of having a love, of finding meaning in life through caring, the same trust promotes the development of the same love and the same feelings and makes you look like who you really are."

— Juan Francisco Palencia.

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introspect1998 · 25 days

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I'm a pile of unfinished things, unsaid feelings, unthought thoughts, and unlived lives.

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readpilled · 2 years

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ottessa moshfegh, lapvona

donna tartt, the secret history

margaret atwood, the handmaid’s tale

albert camus, the myth of sisyphus

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seraphim-eternal · 3 months

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Silas Melvin, Twenty / Megan Fernandes, Fabric in Tribeca

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wisdom-and-such · 2 months

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“Let one mold himself in accordance with the precepts he teaches…”.

Section 12: verse 3

Dhammapada (oldest surviving sayings attributed directly to the Shakyamuni Buddha).

(This version translated from the Pali Cannon by Ananda Maitreya).

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virtuouslibertines69 · 4 months

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"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler." - Friedrich Nietzsche Art by @EllenMarieArt

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crowleyspriestess · 1 month

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René Girard - Il Capro Espiatorio

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giuseppebonaccorso · 21 days

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Around me

A poetic and profound vision of human boredom and inertia that leads to the discovery of the universe and the constant transformation of existence.

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mailmiocuoredipietratremaancora · 6 months

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Ancora una volta - questa è la grande intuizione strategica di Kafka, la nuova cabala che egli prepara - la lotta non è contro Dio o la sovranità suprema (il conte Westwest, che non è mai realmente in questione nel romanzo), ma contro gli angeli, i messaggeri e i funzionari che sembrano rappresentarli. […] Non si tratta, dunque, con buona pace degli interpreti teologici - tanto ebrei che cristiani -, di un conflitto col divino, ma di un corpo a corpo con le menzogne degli uomini (o degli angeli) sul divino (prima di tutto quelle correnti nell'ambiente degli intellettuali ebreo-occidentali, cui egli appartiene). Sono i loro confini, le separazioni e le barriere che essi hanno stabilito fra gli uomini, e fra gli uomini e il divino, che l'agrimensore vuole mettere in questione.

Giorgio Agamben su Il Castello (1926) di Franz Kafka; in Nudità, G. Agamben, 2009

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grandhotelabyss · 10 months

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apart from your oeuvre, what are novels or nonfiction works that capture the "now"

I'm not a dedicated enough reader of my exact contemporaries to know. As far as mainstream fiction, I can renew my recommendations of Leave Society and My Year of Rest and Relaxation. I like Matt Gasda's drama, as well as the one novel of his I read (The Blue Period). Honor Levy had promise—where's she gone? I still need to at least try Stephanie LaCava, Madeline Cash. Half a decade ago, I liked The City of Folding Faces, whose author seems to have given up literature for medicine. People are pointing to Houellebecq's Submission for the French crisis. Most of the more celebrated material in both the left-lib female corporate overworld and the hard-right male indie underworld—Oyler, Lockwood, Delicious Tacos, ZeroHPLovecraft—doesn't do it for me, is overly literal about what "now" means. Your question about nonfiction, though, raises an interesting point, one also true of fiction but maybe less visible in that context. Often, in new circumstances, we reach back to thinkers of the past whose insights into the present weren't visible until that very present arrived. This is why people are now taking late-20th-century figures like McLuhan, Foucault, Arendt (all of which I understand), and Girard (which I don't) as guides to the now. This effect of retro-causation in literary and philosophical history—of finding the living present in the dead past and the living past in the dead present—is why I'm skeptical of historicism, was skeptical of it when it was the academic left's method du jour for disabling the persistent relevance of canonical works and am skeptical now that the right wants to wield it against modernity, as here. The best work about now might be a century or two (or three or four) old. Hamlet is the first superfluous man of the post-patriarchy. We're only now understanding Hemingway. Or, to take another example, as long as America meaningfully is America, The Scarlet Letter may well remain the most relevant novel about American politics—or at least about the culture war within liberalism that America has in place of anything anybody else would call politics.

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nicholasandriani · 1 year

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Jikan no Mukou,or The Other Side of Time: Tales for a Time Being and other Ghostly Experiences in Chinese and Japanese Literature. jikan no mukou,

Tales for a Time Being is a captivating and poignant novel written by Ruth Ozeki. The book has been praised for its intricate plot, vivid characters, and insightful commentary on cultural themes. In this review, I will explore the cultural elements, hidden motifs, and zeitgeist of the book while also drawing comparisons to Japanese and Chinese ghost stories from the 16th and 17th centuries. The…

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juan-francisco-palencia · 9 months

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The same forever.

"Someday, someone will look at you with a light of love in their eyes that you have never found, they will look at you as if you were everything they have been pilgrimaging their whole life. If you get to feel it, it may be the love story in life you've been waiting for."

— Juan Francisco Palencia.

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vixen-academia · 9 months

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Introduction to World Music

Reading Fiction

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dathen · 1 year

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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done.

THIS IS SO FUCKING FUNNY

oh PLEASE tell me modern adaptions take full advantage of this. Just stops a conversation in its tracks to be like “what’s a mickey mouse…?” or “you say that as if I should know who Stephen King is…”

#letters from watson #holmes: here’s ten pounds. go see a Star War

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wisdom-and-such · 7 months

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Excerpt from An Interesting Book— more at AnInterestingBook.com

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cryptotheism · 10 months

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What are the specific references to real-world occultism you've found in Cultist Simulator? The paralell nature of the Secret Histories feels like a parody of Theosophical perennialism, and the entire thing about the Carapace Cross and FIve Creations could be read as a parody of Blavatsky's Root Races. There's also obvously Something Alchemical going on with the entire deal of gods shattering and swallowing the Sun, as well as the entire deal with the Watchman and Egg Unhatching, and something about the Long have always reminded me of Bergier's last meeting with Fulcanelli. Is there anything more than that? Most of the rest seems to be parody/commentary on the general pop-cultural Lovecraftian fare

The shattering the sun is alchemical but it's mostly gnostic. The hours are Aeons/Archons.

The watchman and the egg Unhatching is a direct reference to Orphism. Specifically the orphic creation myth and the god Phanes.

You gotta understand that Lovecraft's mythos is in direct conversation with Blavatsky and theosophy. Lovecraft's fiction might as well be contemporary occult philosophy.

There's also a lot of commentary on mystical literature. There are clear references to Gnostic mysticism, Merkava/Hekhalot literature, Enochian watchtowers and Aethyrs, even several references to Vision and the Voice (one of Crowleys mystical work.)

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