For the old gods, after all, things came to an end long ago; and verily, they had a good gay godlike end. They did not end in a “twilight,” though this lie is told. Instead: one day they laughed themselves to death. That happened when the most godless word issued from one of the gods [...]
Archive for April, 2009
O my brothers, break, break the old tablets!
Posted in Short Prose, tagged Philosophy, Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Clockwork Orange Resucked
Posted in Short Prose, tagged A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, What does clockwork orange mean? on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Introduction I first published the novella A Clockwork Orange in 1962, which ought to be far enough in the past for it to be erased from the world’s literary memory. It refuses to be erased, however, and for this the film version of the book made by Stanley Kubrick may be held chiefly responsible. I [...]
Suicide: the one truly serious philosophical problem — Camus
Posted in Short Prose, tagged Camus, Philosophy, Suicide on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible. – Pindar, Pythian iii An Absurd Reasoning Absurdity and Suicide There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. [...]
A stopped clock is right twice a day
Posted in Quotes, tagged Quotes on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The problem of the value of truth came before us — or was it we who came before the problem? Who of us is Oedipus here? Who the Sphinx? It is a rendezvous, it seems, of questions and question marks. – Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil As a college freshman, I memorized the tenets fo [...]
Was that life? Well then! Once more!
Posted in Quotes, tagged Nietzsche, Philosophy, Thus Spoke Zarathustra on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
But there is something in me that I call courage; that has so far slain my every discouragement. This courage finally bade me stand still and speak: “Dwarf! It is I or you!” For courage is the best slayer, courage which attacks; for in every attack there is playing and brass. Man, however, is the [...]
For all things have been baptized in the well of eternity and are beyond good and evil
Posted in Quotes, Short Prose, tagged Nietzsche, Philosophy, Thus Spoke Zarathustra on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BEFORE SUNRISE The world is deep – and deeper than day had ever been aware. Not everything may be put into words in the presence of day. But the day is coming, so let us part. O heaven above me, pure and deep! You abyss of light! Seeing you, I tremble with godlike desires. To [...]
Beyond Good and Evil :: 296 (my written and painted thoughts)
Posted in Quotes, tagged Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche, Philosophy on April 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Alas! what are you, after all, my written and painted thoughts! Not long ago you were so variegated, young and malicious, so full of thorns and secret spices, that you made me sneeze and laugh — and now? You have already doffed your novelty, and some of you, I fear, are ready to become truths, [...]
Ariosto and the Arabs :: J. L. Borges
Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Poetry, tagged Poetry, Borges, Dreamtigers on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
No man can write a book. Because Before a book can truly be It needs the rise and set of the sun, Centuries, arms, and the binding and sundering sea. So Ariosto thought, who to the slow pleasure Gave himself, in the leisure of the roads With the shining statuary and black pines, Of dreaming [...]
Androgué :: J. L. Borges
Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Poetry, tagged Borges, Dreamtigers, Poetry on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Let no fear be that in indecipherable night I shall lose myself among the black flowers Of the park, where the secret bird that sings The same song over and over, the round pond, And the summerhouse, and the indistinct Statue and the hazardous ruin, weave Their scheme of things propitious to the langour Of [...]
Ars Poetica :: J. L. Borges
Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Poetry, tagged Borges, Dreamtigers, Poetry on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To gaze at the river made of time and water And recall that time itself is another river, To know we cease to be, just like the river, And that our faces pass away, just like the water. To feel that waking is another sleep That dreams it does not sleep and that death, Which [...]
Luke XXIII :: J. L. Borges
Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Poetry, tagged Borges, Dreamtigers, Poetry on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gentile or Hebrew or simply a man Whose face has now been lost in time; From oblivion we shall not redeem The silent letters of his name. Of clemency he knew no more Than a robber whom Judea nails To a cross. The time that went before We cannot reach. But in his final Job [...]
Life can suddenly be made to work for you if you employ this theory in everything you do
Posted in Quotes, tagged A Child's Garden of Grass, funny, Marijuana on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The new mind-busting games such as “Hexed” and “Instant Insanity” are a progression of the old puzzles, and depending on how you view the uselessness of spending hours to master an intricate puzzle, you’ll love or despise these games when stoned. Without question, you’ll get involved, all hung up, and either not be able to [...]
The thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts
Posted in Poetry, Quotes, tagged Longfellow, My Lost Youth, Poetry on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I remember the gleams and glooms that dart Across the school-boy’s brain; The song and the silence in the heart, That in part are prophecies, and in part Are longings wild and vain. And the voice of that fitful song Sings on, and is never still: “A boy’s will is the wind’s will, And the [...]
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