December 2009
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'A Reader's Manifesto: An attack on the growing... →
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In his story “Sarrasine” Balzac, describing a castrato disguised as a woman, writes the following sentence: “This was woman herself, with her sudden fears, her irrational whims, her instinctive worries, her impetuous boldness, her fussings and her delicious sensibility.” Who is speaking thus? Is it the hero of the story bent on remaining ignorant of the castrato hidden...
“…as the balance with climate and its protection becomes the goal of...”
– Philippe Rahm (via adamridler)
Eunoia is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowel graphemes. It comes from the Greek word εὔνοια which means well mind or beautiful thinking.
It is a rarely used medical term referring to a state of normal mental health.
In book eight of Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle uses the term (in Greek) to refer to the kind and benevolent feelings of goodwill a spouse has...
When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins. The mechanical effort of conversation is nastier and more complicated than defecation. That corolla of bloated flesh, the mouth, which screws itself up to whistle, which sucks in breath, contorts itself, discharges all manner of viscous...
“Examinations are futile exercises in which the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer. Education means the cultivation of a pupil’s general culture, the awakening of their critical intellect and the arousal of their aesthetic sensibility in order to possess a mind which can play gracefully with ideas rather than arrive at violence of opinion merely. It has never occurred to us...
View of the east at 8:06am
I wish you could see the shit my window is framing right now. The light! The flowers! There is this huge spiderweb that stretches between two trees and it is so delicate and insubstantial, with the sun shining through it in such a way that it seems like absence manifest. Woven out of air, it is the absolute pure form of nothing. But my camera cannot capture it so you must settle for my impotent...
November 2009
2 posts
#FFF8E7 is the official average colour of the... →