“
If you were to think more deeply about death,
then it would be truly strange if,
in doing so, you did not encounter
new images, new linguistic fields.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1936-37 diaries
2012/05/16
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“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal” - Simone de Beauvoir
2012/05/13
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‘The Man with the Miniature Orchestra’ by Dave Algonquin.
There were phrases of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony that still made Coe cry. He always thought it had to do with the circumstances of the composition itself. He imagined Beethoven deaf and soul-sick, his heart broken, scribbling furiously while Death stood in the doorway, clipping his nails.
Still, Coe thought, it might have been living in the country that was making him cry. It was killing him with its silence and loneliness - making everything ordinary, too beautiful to bear.
2012/05/12
The School of Plato, Jean Delville
Plato believed that primordial humans were hermaphrodites.
It is said that when Plato was an infant, some bees settled on his lips when he was asleep, indicating that he would become famous for his honeyed words. The same is said of Sophocles, Pindar, St. Ambrose, St. Chrysostom, and others.
“And as when Plato did i’ the cradle thrive.
Bees to his lips brought honey from their hive”
- William Browne
