Archives for October 2024

"In the beginning may have been the Uroboros: male and female, father and mother, mother and child, ego-id and outside world in one. But the Uroboros has busted a long time ago; the distinctions and divisions are our reality—real with all its symbols. In the light of its own possibilities, it may well be called a cave, and our life in it dream or death." Herbert Marcuse (Love Mystified; A Critique of Norman O. Brown, Commentary Magazine) "Actaeon; alien horns added to his forehead; the dogs that sated themselves in the blood of their own master; all for the sin of seeing. Cur aliquid vidi? Why did I have to see something?" Norman O. Brown (Apocalypse; Ovid, Metamorphoses, III, … [Read more...]

"The lion griefs loped from the shade And on our knees their muzzles laid, And Death put down his book." W. H. Auden (A Summer Night, 1934) "The mind has added nothing to human nature. It is a violence from within that protects us from violence without. It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives." Wallace Stevens (The Necessary Angel) "It was not from the vast ventriloquism Of sleep's faded papier-mache... The sun was coming from the outside. ... It was like A new … [Read more...]

"He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." Isaac 53:7 "The greatest part of our being is unknown to us. . . . We have a phantom of the “ego” in our heads, which determines us many times over." Friedrich Nietzsche (Nachlass) "On Saturday, August 10, 2019, at approximately 6:30 a.m., inmate Jeffrey Edward Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell in the Special Housing Unit from an apparent suicide at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York, New York. Life-saving measures were initiated immediately by responding staff. Staff … [Read more...]