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Jun 10
"Sunset was approaching, mist beautifully veiled the sky, and the mountain's shadow seemed to dim, while everywhere cicadas sang and pinks gracefully nodded their pretty colors along the fence."
- Murasaki Shikibu, ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ซ๐ช (R. Tyler, Trans.)
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May 22
"The only difference between us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick."
- Jostein Gaarder, ๐๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฆ'๐ด ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ
ALT Inland Empire, David Lynch
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May 22
"No two events can ever be said to be simultaneous, because every moving reference frame has its own relative time, and everything in the universe is moving in relation to something else."
- Robert Greene, ๐๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ
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May 22
"I think questions make us feel less lonely and more connected. It's not always about knowing. I appreciate not knowing. Not knowing is human."
- Iain Reid, ๐'๐ฎ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด
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May 20
". . . passivity like pavement over a storm."
- William H. Gass, ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ญ
ALT Courteous Passivity Victor Brauner
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May 15
The positive of the negative:
"Anything can happen in life, especially nothing."
- Michel Houellebecq, ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ
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May 13
The fossilized architecture of time:
"The continuity of our lives is preserved by being surrounded by the solidified substance of time which has lasted for a given period."
- Yukio Mishima, ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ
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May 8
"The breath of her enchantment seemed irresistibly to perfume his face even as he watched."
- Murasaki Shikibu, ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ซ๐ช (R. Tyler, Trans.)
ALT Genji monogatari, The Tale of Genji. Chapter 28: "Nowake" (Autumn Gale). Prince Yugiri is asking the health of Genji who is with lady Murasaki-no-ue. Masao Ebina 1913-1980
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May 6
"Yet how strange a thing is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given period or time into pure continuance; it is certain never to be repeated; like the existence of dayflies and other such shortlived creatures, beauty is a perfect abstraction and creation of life itself."
- Yukio Mishima, ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ
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May 5
Mentalized physical illumination of presence, or something like that -
William Butler Yeats, "Among School Children":
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May 1
Does awareness turn existence into dissatisfaction?:
"Just to exist was more than enough to satisfy me. In the first place, doesn't uneasiness about one's existence spring precisely from a sort of luxurious dissatisfaction at the thought that one may not be living fully?"
- Yukio Mishima, ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ
ALT Caspar David Friedrich โ Woman Before the Rising Sun (c. 1818โ1820)
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Apr 28
The functional crafting of a euphemistic innuendo:
"It was too dark to see her clearly, but on the whole she reminded him a great deal of his friend, and although he did not exactly lose his heart to her, he was sufficiently stirred to rustle his robes."
- Murasaki Shikibu, ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ซ๐ช (R. Tyler, Trans.)
ALT Maeda Masao - The Tale of Genji - Yugiri
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Apr 24
"Genji felt that by now it would ill become him to turn again to writing her youthful letters, but the thought of having wasted so many years while she went on never quite rejecting him decided him not to give up, and he reverted to ardent courtship."
- Murasaki Shikibu, ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ซ๐ช (R. Tyler, Trans.)
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Apr 24
"For us boys, war was a dreamlike sort of experience lacking any real substance, something like an isolation ward in which one is cut off from the meaning of life."
- Yukio Mishima, ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ
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Apr 22
โ. . . please tell me why you are so beautiful, why it is necessary for you to be beautiful.โ
- Yukio Mishima, ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ
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Apr 20
"Something had bestowed reality on all this without waiting for my participation; and this great, meaningless, utterly dark reality was given to me, was pressed on me, with a weight that I had until then never witnessed."
- Yukio Mishima, ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ
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Apr 16
"A book is the best gift, everything best in me I owe to books, book after book, cherish booksโthey ennoble and refine oneโs taste, you look in a book but see gobbledygook, a book is manโs best friend, it enhances interiors, exteriors, and fox terriers."
- Sasha Sokolov, trans. Alexander Boguslawski, ๐ ๐๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ด
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Apr 16
Sasha Sokolov's ๐ ๐๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ด is a singularity of multitudes.
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