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Hamm: …. what time is it? Clov: The same as usual #Beckett

@stillhurts8110 @Mappy6984 aww. So fragile

@Scivf4 To disrespect science - is dumb - but I still think Jonathan Swift (Gulliver’s Travel author) caught the essence of the subject in its nascent days: So naturalists observe a flea hath other fleas upon him prey and these have smaller still to bite ‘em and so proceeds ad infinitum

A close up into the quantum universe

a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat e. e. cummings

@wself To my mind (respected?) writer saying “life is too short” to read Ulysses is wanting the publicity, or trying to get some ‘cool’ from anti-intellectualism either way, seems knobbish. I thought it was part of professional’s job to encourage all parts of their constituency

@elonmusk thing about all these screaming accounts - they plain LIE

There were massive international protests over George Floyd and those police involved were severely punished with long prison sentences, yet the police responsible here did not even lose their jobs! An incredibly unjust double-standard!

@ly967hal @nexta_tv you made me laugh. Agreeing with the possibility of what you said. Moral of the story: Xi is some heavy Mf’in dude

@nexta_tv I think the big welcome and the bro portrait was a massive fuck you to Trump and the Swan Lake thing was a message to Putin. Probably something along the lines of when Russia breaks apart and it will the way it’s going, they’re coming for the rest of Manchuria.

😂 Xi Jinping played a fragment from “Swan Lake” for Putin — the famous “Dance of the Little Swans,” the unofficial soundtrack of political collapse in Soviet history The piece was part of the musical program during the official reception for the Russian delegation in China. Which would be perfectly normal… if “Swan Lake” hadn’t become a legendary symbol of political chaos across the post-Soviet world. The association became especially iconic during the 1991 coup attempt, when Soviet TV kept broadcasting the ballet while the USSR was falling apart. Coincidence? Maybe. But it really feels like Xi is sending Putin some very mixed signals. First — a giant “bro portrait” and a grand welcome ceremony. Then — “Dance of the Little Swans”...

@HermannHessed and doesn’t tarry or bother ‘bout that “unlived life” thing

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain

@Music_Goddesss ‘werds, wirds, wurds’ as the poor prince understood - and every scribbler and talker should get - don’t get over the line - can’t find absolute resolution like harmony does

"What is true of painting is equally true of music. Music 'says' things about the world, but in specifically musical terms. Any attempt to reproduce these musical statements 'in our own words' is necessarily doomed to failure. We cannot isolate the truth contained in a piece of music; for it is a beauty-truth and inseparable from its partner. The best we can do is to indicate in the most general terms the nature of the musical beauty-truth under consideration and to refer curious truth-seekers to the original." ~Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) Music at Night This account is for what Aldous Huxley called the "curious truth-seekers" who want to learn more about the most general terms of musical beauty-truth. Follow so I can refer you to the world's most beautiful classical music, "the original" music, and help you to enjoy it.

@HermannHessed quote anything - BUT NOT the Bible … eff that - it’s full of diamonds from the Doctor’s book: “In your patience possess ye your soul” Luke 21:19

“This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.” ― Haruki Murakami

@arealmofwonder yeah … it’s all grist to the mill, but as long as you remember the golden rule: you’ve got a hole in your a*rse and it’s there to tell you - let go of stuff (I would recommend VW diaries. Intriguing read)

"I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded." ~ Virginia Woolf

@ARTOVOID @For_Film_Fans it’s a not un-common question. I was told - when I said a related thing to a workplace psychologist I bumped into: ‘Signifies humility or defeatism.” They pointed me in the direction of ‘The Artist’s Way’ and that taught me about morning pages Be lucky

@For_Film_Fans What if the inside was empty?

“Practice any Art: music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, no matter how well or badly, not to get money & fame but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.”

‘April is the cruellest month’ Wasteland’s first line, strong opening. Canterbury Tales always felt to read, today got push: first line ‘When in April the sweet showers fall’ Landmark of 20thC explicitly references medieval work. I’ve not known till today - tad ashamed

@HopeExistential @davideagleman so - the death of someone is something not to be accepted?

Can AI help us process grief? Neuroscientist @davideagleman used an AI tool to recreate his late father's voice. He explains the science behind why losing someone you love hurts so much, and why hearing them say new things feels so powerful.

@arealmofwonder “Love is not love when it alteration finds …” “Jeez Shakes - that’s a bomb right there … I mean … who you trying to speak to - when you got that - that could turn our audience right off.”

Sir Laurence Olivier reciting Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare is very much an understated masterclass in performance poetry. (Absolute goosebumps.)

@_HistoryNerd “love is wise, hatred is foolish….” there’s people who would argue with that 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

Bertrand Russell on what he'd tell future generations: In a 1959 BBC interview, the philosopher Bertrand Russell was asked what he'd want to pass on to descendants watching the film "like a Dead Sea scroll in a thousand years time." His answer came in two parts. One intellectual, one moral. On the intellectual side, Russell said: "When you are studying any matter, or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only: 'What are the facts, and what is the truth that the facts bear out?' Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or by what you think would have beneficial social effects, if it were believed. But look only and solely at: 'What are the facts?'" The trap he's pointing to is subtle. It's not just wishful thinking that distorts our view of reality. It's also the temptation to believe things because believing them would be useful. Russell rejects both. The only question that matters is what's actually true. On the moral side, his message was simpler: "Love is wise, hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other. We have to learn to put up with the fact, that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way." He closes with a warning that lands harder with each passing decade: "If we are to live together and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet." Two disciplines, then, for anyone hoping to live well and leave the world intact: Look at the facts as they are, not as you wish them to be. And extend tolerance to people whose views offend you. Not because they're right, but because the alternative is that we don't survive each other.

@HermannHessed Nah.

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.” — Voltaire

@everymovieplug the Everyman, since Chaplin, Benny Hill - but now - well - thoughtcrime can’t go there… man with that mind - is a rapist … like all men …. #ohDearOhDearOhMyohMy

Comedy used to be this unapologetically ridiculous.

@wself “discloses systemic opacity while linguistically normalising it …” ‘we cr*p on people - but hey - *it’s the market* … it’s the modern world …” there’s a page in ‘Grapes of Wrath’ about banks … and how it’s not their fault taking away people’s livelihoods #itsNotMeItsThem

"Financial journalism now functions simultaneously as revelation and sedation. The article discloses systemic opacity while linguistically normalising it. A scandal appears, but appears in the grammar of technical adjustment rather than existential rupture. Thus the reader is taught both to fear instability and to regard it as ultimately manageable by sufficiently sophisticated actors."

@cowboy_postbop it was said in an interview not long after Beatles split. JL was sorting things out in his head. As s-star he was encouraged to vent - out loud, on tape. Around same time ‘How do you sleep’ got made. Something (else?) he later saw as, actually kind of projection

his own bandmate had a full first-and-last stage name, the fuck was his problem lol

@alluringmedia lucky man decides to be dog in manger. #ImalrightJack

Elon Musk said he wants to cut Social Security and Medicare. He calls them "entitlements." The tech billionaire oligarchs believe most people in the world are the "parasite class" and that we should be eliminated.