As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquillized in their despair. I muse along as quietly as a ghost. Instead of trying to sleep I try to fathom the mystery of this suburb at dawn. Why do these splendid houses look so defeated at this…
Here’s a more recent interview with Burke. bassbudgieBurke Shelleyheavy metalwales
“Ignatius, what’s all this trash on the floor?” “That is my worldview that you see. It still must be incorporated into a whole, so be careful where you step.” “And all the shutters closed. Ignatius! It’s still light outside.” “My being is not without its Proustian elements,” Ignatius said from the bed, to which he…
The maestro has died. See the obit in The Guardian. Ennio Morriconemusic
44 years ago. Cracking read. Review in The Guardian. EntebbeIsraelOperation Thunderboltsaul david
I was then so meek that now, when I’m tortured by remorse for not having loved him enough before he died, I always summon up that scene. To be sincere, I have to add that it was easy for me to submit to his arrangements because at that time I found the idea of being…
“What is a repetition? A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle. Last week, for example, I experienced…
Shaun Gallagher for The Institute of Art and Ideas. consciousnessEmbodied cognitionExternalismpersonal identityShaun Gallaghersituated cognition
I would very much like to know what the Founding Fathers would say if they could see these children being debauched to further the cause of Clearasil. However, I always suspected that democracy would come to this . . . “A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United…
Zygon: Volume44, Issue1, March 2009, pp. 197-222 Christopher Hitchenscorey abelexperience and its modesMichael OakeshottRichard Dawkinsscience and religionStephen Jay Gould
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