In the Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche argues that statements about the value of life reveal more about the person making the statement than anything about...
The soul is the product of dialogue between the mind and the body. In absence of the dialectical, there may be conversation, argument, synthesis. Maybe I was...
ok, for now i shall call you fyodor. fact is, i know very little about either dostoyevsky or the catholic church, so inquisitor is vague term for me. it is...
"It is difficult to describe all that Sartre had become in the first two years of their relationship. He was her mentor, guiding her intellectual life by...
Fernando Pessoa from The Book of Disquiet: "I've always thought it futile to see life as a valley of tears; yes, it is a valley of tears, but one in which we...
trick or treat What is a pseudo-gene? It is a gene that appears in the genome of a species that is turned off: i/e there but not functional. Humans have many...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR A Biography by Deirdre Bair The Life She Chose By DIANE JOHNSON New York Times on Line The French would call Deirdre Bair's life of Simone...
realise i didnt introduce myself very well. am barely emergent from a bad case of late-onset dp. living in the beautiful city of Durham, as recommended in...
hi! im newbie here. seems kinda quiet tonight. anyone care for a chat? distraction from real world my object. though the night is younger than i am. ...
The film American Psycho has always fasicnated me. But not for the reasons it fascinates [or repulses] others. The general consensus seems to revolve around...
If not history, then imagination, should warn us about changing the terminology of our opponents, if we intend to defeat them in honest argument. Intelligent...
If I wanna be false prophet, will the man be manifest. Newbie asks, what is a muse?? It's all so involved. The smoke-free furnace five miles away again. Until....
There follow referenced extracts, by page number, from the first part of the final (fourth) volume of Martin Heidegger's 'Nietzsche', which is translated by...
"An act of pity, for example, was during the finest age of Rome considered neither good nor bad, neither moral nor immoral; and even if it was commended, this...
What Biggie describes of the film 'American Psycho' - which I have not seen, nor read any reviews thereof before now - suggests to me that it enacts that form...
Again. Elliptical, brief. Readied for reprimand. Short post. If I make it longer, is it better?? William always refuses. Appearances, eh. Nowt here, nowt...
no embellishments, no additions of any kind, i'm just going to clone this directly to the best of my ability ... British Orations Historical & Political From...
Here is a poem, called ... The Voyage Happy the young man who disregards The siren who conceals herself in words, Stopping his ears but seizing on the flesh ...
The real question for Americans is: "Will we opt to keep our criminality for the sake of social and political stability?" It is a question we will face soon....
To Joseph Hill, Esq. Olney, February 3, 1781. My Dear Friend--It is possible that Mrs. Hill may not herself be a sufferer by the late terrible catastrophe in...
An absolutist like myself finds in plurality the highest joy. Forms of thinking are more numerous than individual humans. Nevertheless, patterns recur,...
The author, Susan Orlean, asked the Florida state park ranger, Tony, what "it was about orchids that seduced humans so completely that they were compelled to...
Bianco Luno Notebook X 9/27/1994 – 11/30/1995 what you don't want to hear 23 "It will come as a shock to me if I am understood as offering anyone but myself...
Seems to me that the divine and secular religions of our times are all so dangerous it might be better to assume all the gods are dead. Maybe we as human...
The Description *Ne dites pas: la vie est un joyeux festin; Ou c'est d'un esprit sot ou c'est d'une ame basse. Surtout ne dites point: elle est malheur sans...
