February 2012
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Beware the Ides of March
Approximately a month from now, around the time of March 20th, Greece is poised to default, triggering a CDS crisis that could spread like an economic contagion far greater than that which occurred in 2008. The signs of this have not been buried but written prominently in reliable news sources with daily regularity. I don’t claim to be an economist and I have my share of doubt of the whole...
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Reboot
From my first philosophical posts up to the latest poetic musings, there have been two themes that I keep returning to, which seem to define me in a feverish way: the necessity of ethics and the sanctity of the individual. I suppose I tend towards these themes so forcefully because of their lost importance in the modern world, a world of political squawk, academic rigor mortis, positivists,...
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“To everyone that gazes there comes some time the longing to go into the...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Journal, April 7th 1900
“The idea that science can, and should, be run according to fixed and universal...”
– Paul Feyerabend, Against Method (via hollovv)
“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (1873)
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I have an invite left for the beta version of Letterboxd, if you want it message me, first come, first served.
The Extinction of Deep Thinking & Sacred Space →
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Anyone else here on the beta version of Letterboxd? I have ran out of invitations but I gotta say it is pretty sweet, a great place to revel in movie-watching, share lists and reviews, without the clutter of everything else all in a very sleek design. Let me know if you are there, you can find me under the name ‘rot’.
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“I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly...”
– Vincent van Gogh (via obdormio)
I lost the words, I write in waves and the wave has ebbed. I do come lightly to the page, not a writer really. Not even a pursuer of life so much so as to excuse the lack extracted. I have been called lazy by people who should know better, or maybe they are right and I am lazy. I like to think I am waiting for my moment, patiently. Bad form to wait for the muse. The myth of the writer is to...
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(Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
Christ in Gethsemane Folio 142v)
these are the very rich hours of our impoverished lives
the Limbourgs knew it well when they dappled
their mangy Christ in a moonless terrestrial night
only the faint glint of a halo to relieve the darkness
it was as if - so privately consumed -
the illumination of our savior sunk inwards
only the outer shell of...
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I am as perfectly sterile as I never was, and I doubt whether I shall ever again get ideas. Whenever I try to think about Logic, my thoughts are so vague that nothing ever can crystallize out. What I feel is the curse of all those who have only half a talent; it is like a man who leads you along a dark corridor with a light and just when you are in the middle of it the light goes...
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“THE THIN RED LINE”, a poetic masterpiece directed by Terrence Malick
“Everything’s a lie. Everything you hear, everything you see. So much to spew out. They just keep coming, one after another. You’re in a box. A moving box. They want you dead or in their lie… There’s only one thing a man can do: find something that’s his and make an island for himself. If I never meet you in...
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via occupyallstreets)
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The Prose-Iguana
Let language leave you but awhile and tend to the family you left behind.
«To forsake the world is easy; the world with them in it… does make me hesitate»
To write because someone told you to, to chase after a story like a character in a plot? To write in spite of every convenience not to, to document rather than live?
«To write for the sake of a turn of phrase, a...
