"The sun has never seen any shadow.” Leonardo Da Vinci (Notebooks) "...history cannot be more certain than when he who creates the things also narrates them." Vico (The New Science) "History begins with bestial giants." Vico (The New Science) "Though the things of Nature are given in common, man (by being master of himself and proprietor of his own person, and the actions or labour of it) had still in himself the great foundation of property." John Locke (Two Treatises of Civil Government) There are several seemingly disparate points I want to connect here. For some reason I feel they have emerged into the zeitgeist, as it were, together over the last few months. One has … [Read more...]
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Just because You’re Eating Pizza, it doesn’t mean You’re in Italy.
August 10, 2026 by 10 Comments
"300 of the dead in Boot Hill died violently 200 by guns, over 50 by knives some were pushed under trains—a popular and overlooked form of murder in the west. Some from brain haemorrhages resulting from bar fights at least 10 killed in barbed wire. In Boot Hill there are only 2 graves that belong to women and they are the only known suicides in that graveyard.” Michael Ondaatje (The Collected Works of Billy the Kid) “When I was a child, a peculiar question occurred to me: how do we picture the world as it existed before consciousness evolved? There was such a world, of course, but how do you picture it – the world as it was before picturing things became possible?” Mark Solms (The … [Read more...]
