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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Pier Paolo Pasolini [to Jean-Paul Sartre]

To be honest

Underrated reason to read old books: they train you to think "long thoughts" again.

The concept of having desires completely antithetical to your personality

Spending tonight my little own Etiquettes, Embarrassments, and awes. Late Dickinson is more beautiful for its fragmentary interiority.

Christology is the most incredible theoretical architecture ever invented to articulate the subtleties of what destiny can be thought for the human being. This is why it is incomprehensible for its secular opponents; for them, the only possible such destiny is outside the human being, in the ultimate presupposed victory of a hostile worldly nature. The secular subject is a tragic subject, but the Greeks grew out of such tragic subjectivity long ago. Every serious vision on offer in the humanities is not secular, but either Christian or “Gnostic”; the emergence of a Christological anthropology as the foundation of the modern Western “person” is either explained internally or externally to the biblical grammar.

Nietzsche

people are hating on clarice lispector because the internet made her into a horoscopey, glamazon, catholic larp—when she was actually an intellectually complex, syncretic, yiddish-speaking jew who read joyce and translated from five languages

From Goethe’s Faust

“If we listen to Satan, who may sound like a very progressive and likeable educator, we may feel initially that we are "liberated," but this impression does not last because Satan deprives us of everything that protects us from rivalistic imitation. Rather than warning us of the trap that awaits us, Satan makes us fall into it. He applauds the idea that prohibitions are of no use and that transgressing them contains no danger. The road on which Satan starts us is broad and easy; it is the superhighway of mimetic crisis. But then suddenly there appears an unexpected obstacle between us and the object of our desire, and to our consternation, just when we thought we had left Satan far behind us, it is he, or one of his surrogates, who shows up to block the route. This is the first of many transformations of Satan: the seducer of the beginnings is transformed quickly into a forbidding adversary, an opponent more serious than all the prohibitions not yet transgressed. The secret of Satan's troublesome transformation is easy to discover. The second Satan is the conversion of the mimetic model into a rival, and this process brings about scandals. Because our models suggest their own desires to us, they inevitably oppose the resulting desire. Once prohibitions are transgressed, another kind of obstacle rises up that is more tenacious still, though it is concealed at first by the very protection the prohibitions offer, as long as they are respected.”

Ladybugs are Catholic! During the Middle Ages, crops were saved from a plague of pests after people prayed to the Virgin Mary. A swarm of red, black-spotted insects arrived and devoured the threat. They were named Our Lady’s Bugs - now simply called ladybugs.

Sensed that my soul was delighted with my life.

Ok I've basically been entirely off social media and returning here it is overrwhelmingly abundantly and profoundly clear that this place - and all of these places - are a poison - a prison of utterly short form deep sounding nonsense attached to no one that ur brain will discard imaging its learning. The entire thing is a theatre. A shitty pale simulacra of a life.

Lana Del Rey performing "If You Lie Down With Me" for the first time ever at Wembley Park, London.

Lana Del Rey confirmed that ‘Stand By Your Man’ (Tammy Wynette Cover) will be on her upcoming album.

The Comedy (Dante's), like all of the greatest canonical works, destroys the distinction between sacred and secular writing. And Beatrice is now, for us, the allegory of the fusion of sacred and secular, the union of prophecy and poem.