April 2012
When someone asks ‘what’s the use of philosophy?’ the reply must be aggressive,...
– Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy, 106. (via trivial-brew)
But to enslave the mind to thought alone… is that freedom?
If you are afraid of yourself, only then are you afraid of other people. If you...
– Osho (via labyrintho)
My desire was not carnal.
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Möbius: Remote (Excerpt)
Whatever drove a man to take his own life perplexed me to the point of careful study. It was a warm winter day with an object of desire in the clouds up in ocean blue sky passing like sailing ships. The world was calm and the wind was blowing during the seventy-something degree weather, Orlando’s finest. Palm branches and oak leaves hustled in the wind, creating that sensation of movement...
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Now you have come to that realization. Start working.
It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who...
– Oscar Wilde (via moving-words)
Truth.
Philip Glass Live Right NOW! →
Currently performing “Mad Rush” (7:19pm Eastern Standard Time)
human extraordinaire: books: DFW, Brief Interviews... →
abigail-nicole:
I know I’ve read three?! books now and not posted about any of them (Earthly Powers, Dhalgren, Fifty Shades of Grey) and now I’m talking about David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. Because I’m reading it now and it’s ehhh well it’s DFW. DFW is a big deal. It’s just…
It’s strange to me that some of the reactions are that the human race is...
Why should women be paid equal to men? Men have been in the working world a lot...
– Ann Romney, wife of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney
twaaaaat
(via oghianoos)
No, Ann. We are absolutely not with you.
Summer Reading List: Tenative
Finish the following books you are more than halfway through (I know, I know, I know):
Tinkers
What is the What
The Broom of the System
Men in Space
The Brain that Changes Itself
The Way of Zen
Only Revolutions
Naked Lunch
Begin reading:
Infinite Jest
Something Happened
Oblivion
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Etc.
Govinda had become a monk and thousands of monks were his brothers, wore the...
– Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse (via zephyrean)
My professor explained to us that the piece she was about the read was going to stick with us and have lasting imagery, but I can’t remember the title or a damn thing she said. Go figure.