"There is change, and departure: but there is also help when least looked for from the strangers of the day, and hiding, out among the accidents of this drifting Humility, never quite to be extinguished, a few small chances for mercy."
Friday, 1 November 2013
Thursday, 31 October 2013
True Thomas Excerpt
Friday, 25 October 2013
Friday, 11 October 2013
Thursday, 10 October 2013
Amare amabam: nesciebam quid amarem. Te inveni.
I was in love with love.
I knew not what to love.
I found thee.
-St. Augustine.
Monday, 7 October 2013
1.[Speaking of Ludwig Wittgenstein]: "The most perfect example I have ever known of genius as traditionally conceived; passionate, profound, intense, and dominating." - Bertrand Russell
2."Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness." -Ludwig Wittgenstein
2."Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness." -Ludwig Wittgenstein
Thursday, 3 October 2013
Tuesday, 1 October 2013
Goethe on orbit
Can you dare even to think of yourself in the midst of this eternally living order without then asserting itself within you too something that is in ceaseless motion and describes its orbit about a pure center?
And even if you were to find it difficult to locate this center within you, you would recognise it by the fact that a kind and soothing effect emanates from it and testifies to its existence.
-Wilhelm Meister's Journeyings
And even if you were to find it difficult to locate this center within you, you would recognise it by the fact that a kind and soothing effect emanates from it and testifies to its existence.
-Wilhelm Meister's Journeyings
Monday, 23 September 2013
Friday, 20 September 2013
Thursday, 8 August 2013
More Nabokov
My picture book was at an early age
The painted parchment papering our cage:
Mauve rings around the moon, blood orange sun;
Twinned iris; and that rare phenomenon
The iridule- when, beautiful and strange,
In a bright sky above a mountain range
One opal cloudlet in an oval form
Reflects the rainbow of a thunderstorm
Which in a distant valley has been staged-
For we are most artistically caged.
-Nabokov, Pale Fire
The painted parchment papering our cage:
Mauve rings around the moon, blood orange sun;
Twinned iris; and that rare phenomenon
The iridule- when, beautiful and strange,
In a bright sky above a mountain range
One opal cloudlet in an oval form
Reflects the rainbow of a thunderstorm
Which in a distant valley has been staged-
For we are most artistically caged.
-Nabokov, Pale Fire
Tuesday, 6 August 2013
Friday, 2 August 2013
Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Sunday, 28 July 2013
Saturday, 20 July 2013
Joanica
Heard some long low melancholic rumbles forming chords at this subway station in Barcelona today.
Monday, 24 June 2013
Updaikus
Week in London done.
Had a great time, saw some saints.
TFL did well.
Madrid-bound tomo'.
26 hour coach journey.
Avoid DVT.
Had a great time, saw some saints.
TFL did well.
Madrid-bound tomo'.
26 hour coach journey.
Avoid DVT.
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