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@JungerianJihad Happy birthday

@therapewitness Societas civilis as liberation from past and future.

@JungerianJihad He must have served as the inspiration for Zakhar Pavlovich in Chevengur. platonov-ap.ru/romans/cheveng…

@JungerianJihad Kantbot style

For us living, the act of scattering soil over a casket should be understood in terms of the seeds mentioned in the Parable of the Sower.

Beliefs commonly proscribed as a “death cult” are more accurately rendered as life lived as merely and toward itself, with no genuinely external referent, and so their propagation is merely the act of the dead burying the dead.

Probably my favorite Brodsky poem -- not quite happy with this translation, might give it another shot

“In the Golden Age, austerity is supreme. In the Silver, knowledge is paramount. In the Bronze, they speak of sacrifice as the path. In the Iron, simple charity alone suffices.”

@apophaticism Congratulations! 恭喜！

“You must beware also of the cornel tree. If bees taste its blossom they die of diarrhoea. A remedy is to administer crushed sorb apples in honey to those affected, or human urine or that of oxen, or pomegranate seeds sprinkled with Aminean wine.”

@bogspectre I have made more progress in 6 months than 10 years of learning Russian on-and-off thanks to it, 50 new words a day in a 10k deck

@bogspectre What are you studying?

"The insults [to Merz] in question on social media included terms such as 'a**hole,' 'filthy drunk,' and 'little Nazi.' According to the report, the latter two expressions led to house searches, though in the case of 'filthy drunk' a court later ruled the search unlawful."

“The murders in victories are usually done by the mob and the baggage officers.”

«Lord, my beloved for eternity, do not lead me into evil / Aurochs, do not stand on the edge of the world, where your horns gore men to death Stand under the linden in bloom, from which the bee gathers honey»

@JungerianJihad For some reason I lost interest in smoking recently and replaced it with martinis