December 2010
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My Cracked Wooden Bowl
yama-bato:
This treasure was discovered in a bamboo thicket — I washed the bowl in a spring and then mended it. After morning meditation, I take my gruel in it; At night, it serves me soup or rice. Cracked, worn, weather-beaten, and misshapen But still of noble stock!
Ryokan
This may well be my aesthetic manifesto.
“The poet takes from life that which is quite particular and individual, and...”
– Schopenhauer (via flannelowl)
odd-sock asked: your ink of the bird is exquisite.
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10 songs...
… That hopped out from shuffling my iPod:
1. Calypso 3 (Fin de Siecle) - Jean Michel Jarre
2. Never let me down Again - Depeche Mode
3. Cocaine Blues - Johnny Cash
4. Venus as a Boy - Bjork
5. The Red Blood Connection - Tangerine Dream
6. Ruby Baby - The Drifters
7. Empty Pockets - Herbie Hancock
8. Sax and Violins - Talking Heads
9. Closing Time - Tom Waits
10. Bonus Track...
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“poetry is generally a rhythmic articulation of feeling and the feeling is an...”
– Allen Ginsberg, on poetry (from Howl; the movie)
“Albert Einstein on God
In January of 1954, just a year before his death,...”
– Albert Einstein, cited in Letters of Note. Picture source: Bloomsbury Auctions, Autograph Letter signed to Eric B. Gutkind, in German, 1½pp. & envelope, 4to, Princeton, 3rd January 1954. See also: Einstein letter fetches record amount at auction, Physics World (via amiquote)
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dialogues asked: "The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you."
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“ “What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and...”
– Erwin Schrodinger (tnx wildcat2030)
“But de cat came back, he couldn’t stay no long-er,
Yes de cat came back de very next day,
De cat came back—thought she were a goner,
But de cat came back for it wouldn’t stay away”
Harry S. Miller
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“There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.”
– John Cage (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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I must admit it: I am more attracted by sound rather than words. Maybe it has to do with the fact that being left handed kinda gives you a divergent perspective over things; since there’s no scientific proof over that, I’ll leave it to the Gestalt.
What I can say for what is my personal experience it’s that usually the most beautiful words have the most beautiful sounds, no...
“It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.”
– Henry David Thoreau. Thank you to The Beauty We Love. (via crashinglybeautiful)
Fuck Yeah Existentialism: The Age of Reason (1945) →
fuckyeahexistentialism:
The Age of Reason is a novel by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. This is the first part of Sartre’s Roads to Freedom trilogy. The series was originally intended to be a teratology, but was never completed. The major influence on this series was WWII and the Nazi occupation of…
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“It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating...”
– Stéphane Mallarmé (via aperfectcommotion)
Fuck Yeah Existentialism: The three levels of... →
fuckyeahexistentialism:
There are 3 senses of ‘freedom’ that must be differentiated and argued individually:
political freedom — freedom(p)
(king/oppression vs. democracy/egalarianism) This is the arena that the cultural critics and political philosophers focus on. Political freedom is good, legitimate, attainable,…
Self Portrait →
David Tinius Rossi posted a photo: Just a quick snapshot of myself and my actual being. Still suffering from anxiety, not caring much about it.