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Inconceivable that those born in the year Two Thousand are now 26

Evangelion is patterned after the Book of Jonah, in which a cowardly teenager flees inside a hysteroid teratism to shirk his unfairly imposed duty of individuating in human society

パウル・クレー《ポリフォニックにはめ込まれた白》

“And, in the last analysis, my reading thereof”

The final cause of Yukio Mishima’s ignominious death by suicide was the eventual translation, by Edward Seidensticker, of The Decay of the Angel.

Edward Seidensticker’s The Decay of the Angel leads me to believe it is not impossible to produce, as a translation, a work distinctly superior to its source material.

@functi0nZer0 起死回生 Kishi Kaisei literally translates to "Wake from death and return to life". Meaning "To come out of a desperate situation and make a complete return in one sudden burst".

You can achieve a ‘good ending’ despite being in a ‘bad timeline’

Magritte, The Annunciation; J.G. Ballard

Grinding has a fixed objective and fixed methods. Questing has a fixed objective but unfixed methods. One may have to grind to quest. But when one grinds to grind, one is a bot.

The worst word in the English language is “crocheting” and it is not close

Meat-Shaped Stone, National Palace Museum Taipei

The highest alienation

Shoshin, “beginner’s mind,” means to pull out all the stops.

The demand that an artist’s life justify his work curtails his creative horizon. The work should strive to justify the life, and then some.

Death is a racecar, all roads to Rome Eternal return, call that a palindrome