"I recall the famous story of King Vishvamitra, who through millennia of self-torture acquired such a feeling of power and self-confidence that he endeavored to build a new heaven -- the uncanny symbol of the most ancient and most recent experience of philosophers on earth: whoever has at some time built a new heaven has found the power to do so only in his own...
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tartpop:
for me, i sum it up as pure vanity. i've had piercings because i like how they look and the same goes for my tattoos, though i put a great deal more thought into those. since they are permanent i think they should be a statement about me as a person and/or what is important to me. but that's just for me.
tartpop:
"On these days of creativity I can feel it already: how the husks slide off the things and how everything becomes trusting and forgets all manner of disguise. Moments of creativity are like twilights after heavy summer days. All things are like young girls, white and gentle and of a smiling sadness. Until they suddenly nestle up against you with a strange, impetuous tenderness and...
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demonbuttercup:
Yes, human beings do not deserve to survive.
goldenturtle:
Re: Beardsley - my best used bookstore score in a while was a fine copy of his unfinished novel, "Under the Hill," complete w/ his illustrations. I haven't really dug into it yet, but the prose seems as purple and lurid as one would expect from him, thank goodness.
As for your Rilke-related question above: I know that when I'm writing at my best (to my eye, at least), I'm keen on all sorts of "masks," but at the same time, the more artifice (wordplay, intertextual reference, etc.) there is to the surface of the work, the more I feel like I'm able to actually put forth what I need / want to say. Hardly a revolutionary concept, of course, and I'm not even sure if I articulated it clearly, but there you have it.
As for your Rilke-related question above: I know that when I'm writing at my best (to my eye, at least), I'm keen on all sorts of "masks," but at the same time, the more artifice (wordplay, intertextual reference, etc.) there is to the surface of the work, the more I feel like I'm able to actually put forth what I need / want to say. Hardly a revolutionary concept, of course, and I'm not even sure if I articulated it clearly, but there you have it.
What a piss poor day this is turning out to be. I think I need a dose of Social D. Anybody with me?
"Some people go to church on Sundays
Others they pray at home
You tell them that there ain't no god
And they're better off standin' alone."
I know it's the height of mediocrity to just post lyrics, but I got nothin' else...
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"Some people go to church on Sundays
Others they pray at home
You tell them that there ain't no god
And they're better off standin' alone."
I know it's the height of mediocrity to just post lyrics, but I got nothin' else...
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asvetic:
I've always been able to express boredom better than any other emotion. if the smoke and mirrors didn't fool you the dirty fingerprints would skew your vision enough. All honesty, I liked out guilding the glass sounded...
asvetic:
an emotional outbreak, stepped on by people's feet, controlling panic, who'll be the next one in line, a nervous disturbance, there's a sniper on the top of the roof, the masses of people, fitting through one single door
Mass Hysteria
Mass Hysteria
Okay, there's this fictional philosopher named de Selby, and he proposes that the earth, rather than being (as we mistakenly believe it to be) spherical, is in fact sausage shaped.
Now, I know what you're thinking: It's nice to have proof that even intellectuals can be nincompoops. But withhold your judgment until you've heard his theory. I think it's a doozy.
First off, it is...
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Now, I know what you're thinking: It's nice to have proof that even intellectuals can be nincompoops. But withhold your judgment until you've heard his theory. I think it's a doozy.
First off, it is...
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irina:
Just wanted to say thanks for that terrible limerick! It brightened my day.
lukedreds:
yeah see where you going. he kinda just shrugs off looking into the eye and say "I see" or something and although he refers to it not being his time it never feels like he knows what his time is - not even really in the last scene
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means: Bring out the gimp!!!
On another note, I recently read a blurb from a philospher who stated that language exist to translate, not to communicate. I find this to be both outrageous and fascinating.
I believe it implies that, while we want to communicate with one another, that is, share information, what we are really doing...
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On another note, I recently read a blurb from a philospher who stated that language exist to translate, not to communicate. I find this to be both outrageous and fascinating.
I believe it implies that, while we want to communicate with one another, that is, share information, what we are really doing...
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alyssum:
Actually I'm very much inclined to agree. I'm a very kinesthetic person, so putting things like feelings or gestalts into words feels very much like translation. But it's not just words, it's things with all the senses as well, which can often be very much more effective depending on who you're aiming at. Music or art or touch can be a very effective way of putting people in the same frame of mind as you're trying to convey, for example.
I donno that I'd classify masturbation as annoying... but then I tend to think what's annoying about the self-help thing is the schmaltz factor.
I donno that I'd classify masturbation as annoying... but then I tend to think what's annoying about the self-help thing is the schmaltz factor.
tartpop:
i love shell silverstein! thanks for the except! it was quite entertaining though i must confess that i broke down and took a nap today.
This is an economics of everday life. "[W]hat does an alcoholic call the last glass? the alcoholic makes a subjective evaluation of how much he or she can tolerate. What can be tolerated is precisely the limit at which, as the alcoholic sees it, he or she will be able to start over again (after a rest, a pause . . .). But beyond that...
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alienprincess:
all my haiku (recent) are in quenya (one of Tolkein's elvish languages)I collect them here:
my terribly amateur web site with haiku repository
lets see translations:
Golden (color not the metal) [Lauri]
the golden leaves
the brightest of poetry
in the forest of words
To the Ship [Ciryanna]
I had heard
gulls, and waves when
I came to the ship
The others are less polished, and I need to look them over again...
What do you mean by "occupation: amateur fascist"
and do you speak german, calling yourself Dir Tot Zeit?
on endings and beginnings---
A great modern dancer, Viola Farber, used to say that there are no transitional movements. No connecting movements.
beginnings and endings as boundaries? definately an structure invented by the human mind....
whatever that means
my terribly amateur web site with haiku repository
lets see translations:
Golden (color not the metal) [Lauri]
the golden leaves
the brightest of poetry
in the forest of words
To the Ship [Ciryanna]
I had heard
gulls, and waves when
I came to the ship
The others are less polished, and I need to look them over again...
What do you mean by "occupation: amateur fascist"
and do you speak german, calling yourself Dir Tot Zeit?
on endings and beginnings---
A great modern dancer, Viola Farber, used to say that there are no transitional movements. No connecting movements.
beginnings and endings as boundaries? definately an structure invented by the human mind....
whatever that means
nic:
Thankyou for the nice comment you left on my set. It was refreshing to get something other than "OMG hottness!"
"Politics is the new art!!!" (Adolf to Max). Do we have the strength to face what this means?
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katie:
hahah
well, if youy saw my room, or my LIFE for that matter, you would not be worried about me over orgazining.
i have 5 craes of records, if they're not alphabetized, i won't know where the shit they're at, and i'll die of frustration.
well, if youy saw my room, or my LIFE for that matter, you would not be worried about me over orgazining.
i have 5 craes of records, if they're not alphabetized, i won't know where the shit they're at, and i'll die of frustration.
bliss:
not me....
Every day you fashion it, this purpose,
And every day, at the end of the day,
It awaits you, slow death of your desires,
Climbing the stairs to your abandonment.
The bones of the world are all arranged in
Neat little piles of suspected identity . . .
Have in fact always been arranged in some
Aggragate with which to hold back fate.
And still,...
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And every day, at the end of the day,
It awaits you, slow death of your desires,
Climbing the stairs to your abandonment.
The bones of the world are all arranged in
Neat little piles of suspected identity . . .
Have in fact always been arranged in some
Aggragate with which to hold back fate.
And still,...
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robin00:
good point i often think that myself except the need for money kind of takes over
cricket:
I think yer right
but it's hard to do sometimes. . . . specially when yer PMSing ha ha
but it's hard to do sometimes. . . . specially when yer PMSing ha ha