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What is it now with me And is it as I have become? Is there no state free from the boundary lines Of before and after? The window is open today
June 17, 2020 at 14:50
New Poem : Fear of Death
June 17, 2020 at 14:50
I do not think that this Will be my last trip to Autumn Lake Have some friends among many severe heads We all scholars sitting under tree Waiting for ...
June 16, 2020 at 12:12
By air from other places to here isn't much, but It doesn't count, at least not the way the Shore distance - leaf, tree, stone; optional (fern, frog, ...
June 15, 2020 at 12:14
Leading liot act to foriage is activity Of Chinese philosopher here on Autumn Lake thoughtfully inserted in Plovince of Quebec - stop it! I will not. ...
June 14, 2020 at 17:12
New Poem : On Autumn Lake
June 14, 2020 at 17:11
I understand the critique of positivism or empiricism, or verificationism. Condensed: The empiricist's methods cannot be empirically verified, and so ...
June 14, 2020 at 06:17
(From another here, only not attributing because the context in which the quote was quoted so differs) Rilke: "Be patient toward all that is unsolved ...
June 14, 2020 at 04:51
@"Wayfarer" When I think about the OP, it seems to me less an attack on metaphysics than a zoomed-out (or frame-adjacent) recalibrating. Metaphysics e...
June 14, 2020 at 03:40
So over these past years - A little puttering around, Some relaxing, a lot of plans and ideas. Hope to have more time to tell you about The latter in ...
June 13, 2020 at 12:15
There is some connexion (I like the way the English spell it They're so clever about some things Probably smarter generally than we are Although there...
June 12, 2020 at 12:32
You've never told me about a lot of things: Why you love me, why we love you, and just exactly What sex is. When people speak of it As happens increas...
June 11, 2020 at 16:05
Yep, there is always the bot, and the bot doesn't want to die (like Hal). The purpose of Hal is protective, but to protect you, you can't leave him. H...
June 11, 2020 at 15:48
June 11, 2020 at 06:19
Partially that. I don't want to come across as more experienced then I am, because I'm in the shaky bambi-on-the-ice stage myself, and often relapse. ...
June 11, 2020 at 06:13
Imagine there was no one to challenge you, imagine everyone agreed, there was no proponents of scientism to counter with quotes from Bohr. I would ima...
June 11, 2020 at 05:52
Sure, but we both know, I imagine, that womanizing is itself an addiction. It is a mark of desirability, for sure, but it is not an entry into a Ledge...
June 11, 2020 at 05:37
This is why doing is so important. Without it, there is only the revolving door of opposed thoughts. Not swimming is not Do you see what I mean? There...
June 11, 2020 at 05:13
To continue the ongoing conceit: Derrida is Hamlet pre Sea-Journey (Or Stephen at the beginning of Ulysses, walking along a beach spinning endless fin...
June 11, 2020 at 04:38
I don't know Nicholas of Cusa (besides a few quick references in other books), and I don't mind negative theology, so I'd be curious to hear more. Let...
June 11, 2020 at 04:24
I can't add much to the conversation, because I more or less agree with the OP. What he's describing - and I think he's right to characterize a large ...
June 11, 2020 at 02:58
I get that (&, to be honest, I left off about 1/4 of the way through the last volume of Spheres, will come back some day) I will say that, if you brac...
June 11, 2020 at 02:24
I have not told you About the riffraff at the boat show. But seeing the boats coast by Just now on their truck: All red and white and blue and red Pro...
June 10, 2020 at 15:01
New Poem : Tenth Symphony
June 10, 2020 at 15:00
June 10, 2020 at 03:44
By paragraph: --I like Jung. I think he's really good, actually. I haven't read him deeply, but I've read him. I get your qualification because he get...
June 10, 2020 at 03:13
Yeah, I was talking to my friend about this the other day : the seriousness of play. It's really hard to access now. Forgive me another Ashbery Three ...
June 10, 2020 at 02:55
I think you're right. I've said it before - said it above in this thread, in fact - but I think Sloterdijk is one of the most-underrated philosophers ...
June 10, 2020 at 02:13
But then the kicker: can itself become a concept foregrounded against what we mean by 'backdrop sense.' That's the thing I'm circling around in Heideg...
June 10, 2020 at 01:56
Very cool that you've been in the trenches with the nets. I feel (I'm responding to your posts, as I read them) like I'm getting a better sense of "Pa...
June 10, 2020 at 01:17
Yes, exactly that last part. There is some security in identifying totally with your wound, while having control over how the wounding happens (Deleuz...
June 10, 2020 at 00:59
Yeah, I think enlightenment, if it exists, is something reached subtractively. One way to get at that is to decry 'enlightenment' altogether which I t...
June 10, 2020 at 00:13
(Responding in pieces, not sure how much I'll get in tonight, maybe all, but not sure yet, I'll see how these margaritas hit) I'd like to learn more a...
June 09, 2020 at 23:41
It is the lumps and trials That tell us whether we shall be known And whether our fate can be exemplary, like a star. All the rest is waiting For a le...
June 09, 2020 at 12:17
:up: me too
June 09, 2020 at 12:12
I know that I braid too much my own Snapped-off perceptions of things as they come to me. They are private and always will be. Where then are the priv...
June 08, 2020 at 13:28
I lashed out at you the other night. I think I had to, then - but I'd like to bury the hatchet, if you would also like to. (If not, understandably, pa...
June 08, 2020 at 04:00
You're the one who turned me on to him, actually, mentioning Spheres over on the old forum ( I think.) This is from a newer collection Not Saved: Essa...
June 08, 2020 at 03:21
I agree, but there's a double-work to be done. One kind of work involves universal, invariant structures (like the kind you see in B&T). Another invol...
June 08, 2020 at 03:12
I wish I could remember where it is, I can't find it now, but somewhere or other I read an account by someone observing Heidegger talking to students....
June 08, 2020 at 02:52
Petey Sloterdijk almost agreed, but shifted the scene
June 08, 2020 at 02:43
These are connected to my version of America But the juice is elsewhere. This morning as I walked out of your room After breakfast crosshatched with B...
June 07, 2020 at 14:46
Is anything central? Orchards flung out on the land, Urban forests, rustic plantations, knee-high hills? Are place names central? Elm Grove, Adcock Co...
June 06, 2020 at 12:17
New Poem: The One Thing That Can Save America
June 06, 2020 at 12:15
A pleasant smell of frying sausages Attacks the sense, along with an old, mostly invisible Photograph of what seems to be girls lounging around An old...
June 05, 2020 at 12:25
New Poem : Mixed Feelings
June 05, 2020 at 12:14