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It thinks itself too good for These generalizations and is Moved on by them. The opposite side Is plunged in shade, this one In self-esteem. But the c...
June 04, 2020 at 17:52
New Poem:River
June 04, 2020 at 17:50
Easing the thing Into spurts of activity Before the emptiness of late afternoon Is a kind of will power Blaring back its received vision From a thousa...
June 03, 2020 at 14:22
New poem: Tarpaulin
June 03, 2020 at 14:21
"Father!" "Son!" "Father I thought we'd lost you In the blue and buff planes of the Aegean: Now it seems you're really back." "Only for a while, son, ...
June 03, 2020 at 04:48
Because it only builds up out of fragments. Each evening we walk out to see How they are coming along with the temple. There is an interest in watchin...
June 01, 2020 at 14:00
Let's get on with it But what about the past
May 31, 2020 at 15:53
:vomit:
May 31, 2020 at 06:46
Let's cut to it in plain language - You're full of shit. Everything hasn't been great, people temporarily provide you access to that pure whatever, an...
May 31, 2020 at 06:35
Yeah that's the move. And it ballasts itself with the idea of pure states of play and so forth. The problem is its wrong, and I may be wrong, but I ha...
May 31, 2020 at 06:18
look back on all the things you've gilded ('it was like dostoevsky' etc) and ungild them without going full-celine, which is a reverse-gilding. If you...
May 31, 2020 at 05:29
another aphorism @"path" You can't kill or triumph over a discarded self by proximity to a marquee truth. I mean, heck guy, what do you think the impo...
May 31, 2020 at 05:11
My plus-stroke taken, I offer a plus-stroke to you in return, a perenially recognized personality, with an invariable, quite-worldly, courtly signatur...
May 31, 2020 at 04:50
let's flip that. Why is totalizing good even if you have no audience? (also, importantly, synthesizing isn't the same as totalizing.)
May 31, 2020 at 04:33
Yes! Philosophy, at its best, rids you of the traps thought can keep you in, so you can move on safely to what matters. Its a painstaking self-inocula...
May 31, 2020 at 01:18
Tonight is going to be a turning point, I think. At the very least, this week. We're living through something very big. This is well beyond right and ...
May 31, 2020 at 00:21
The canons are falling One by one Including "le célèbre" of Pachelbal The final movement of Franck's sonata for piano and violin. How about a new kind...
May 30, 2020 at 15:27
"I really would like to know what it is you do to 'magnetize' your poetry, where the curious reader, always a bit puzzled, comes back for a clearer in...
May 29, 2020 at 12:35
He flubbed that one, the old goon
May 29, 2020 at 05:55
"I have become attracted to your style. You seem to possess within your work an air of total freedom of expression and imagery, somewhat interesting a...
May 28, 2020 at 14:56
They are bringing the plants back One by one In the interstices of heaven, earth and today.
May 27, 2020 at 14:28
Otherwise in Paris why You never approved much of my pet remedies. I spoke once of a palliative for piles You wouldn't try or admit to trying any othe...
May 26, 2020 at 12:19
Then up and spake the Major: The new conservatism is Sitting down beside you. Once when the bus slid out past Place Pereire I caught the lens-cover re...
May 25, 2020 at 12:17
I think where the specter of a possible/actual metaphysics lurks is something like: a set of rules for generating one state from another state can, in...
May 25, 2020 at 00:57
You might find this old thread interesting : https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/1308/aphantasia-and-p-zombies/p1
May 24, 2020 at 21:42
The petits fours have left.
May 24, 2020 at 14:49
Martha Hoople wanted a big "gnossienne" hydrangea Smelling all over of Jicky for her Card party: the basement couldn't Hold up all that wildness.
May 23, 2020 at 12:03
It is the first soir of March They have taken the plants away.
May 22, 2020 at 12:06
New poem : The Tomb of Stuart Merrill
May 22, 2020 at 12:06
It's hard to say. Above all, I recognize the voice, something resonates. "This guy gets it" sort of thing After that: all the tangles and contradictio...
May 22, 2020 at 04:19
The latter quote seems unequivocally to be about counter-signals, but I'm not aiming for conversion or self-recognition. At this point, I'm just fasci...
May 22, 2020 at 03:53
A breeze off the lake - petal-shaped Luna-park effects avoid the teasing outline Of where would be if we were here. Bombed out of our minds, I think T...
May 21, 2020 at 15:55
New Poem : Foreboding
May 21, 2020 at 15:51
That's a good counter-signal, right there. See if people are signalling something, so you can react by counter-signalling. Nothing like defining yours...
May 21, 2020 at 06:09
I wear one (usually only inside) for a few reasons (1) as @"Pfhorrest" says, it avoids hassle. (2) it's an easy nod, or recognition that we're all in ...
May 21, 2020 at 05:46
no rush, or worries Some historical curiosity: I've been reading Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle for a few years now. A few years...
May 21, 2020 at 05:12
How would you relate Deleuze's co-opting of the Nietzschean 'throw-of-the-dice' (with the sky/earth-table distinction) to this? It seems to map broadl...
May 21, 2020 at 02:52
second @"prothero" - really clear & concise explanation.
May 21, 2020 at 02:08
Yes, I'm in agreement here. In my heart of hearts, I am happy with things being forced to their crisis. In my conscience of consciences, I feel like I...
May 21, 2020 at 01:58
Taking a path you never saw before Thought you knew the area (The many perceive they fight off sleep). "A few gaffers stay on To the end of the line T...
May 20, 2020 at 14:31
@"frank"@"javra" I've been thinking recently about the emergence of the ego as a sort of darwinian natural selection for : certain self-narratives, al...
May 19, 2020 at 18:37
I devoured those books as a kid, and the daemon idea is, I agree, very much along these lines. I don't know very much about anima, but everything you'...
May 19, 2020 at 14:10
The weather kept them at their small tasks: Sorting out the news, mending this and that. The great poker face impinged on them. And rejoiced To be a l...
May 19, 2020 at 12:09
They had moved out here from Boston Those two. (The one, a fair sample Of the fair-sheaved many, The other boggling into single oddness Plays at it wh...
May 18, 2020 at 12:18