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:... Put My Heart Back In My Hand: Playlist #3 ...:

Simon's Sleeping by Pretty Balanced
Violence Fetish by Disturbed
Flightless Bird, American Mouth by Iron & Wine
Almost Human by Voltaire

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:... Loose Change & Loose Thoughts, Run Backwards...:

Serafeim's Excommunication.

So Serafeim Křehký is a cleric, a priest under the Carthusian Order [or should ( Read more... )

:... A Note On Locale ...:

Not Berlin, it goes without saying. Eleanore Tovoinen... Toivonen, the name's Finnish, she's Finnish, she married a Fin for a reason. So when she goes home, she goes back to Helsinki, not to Berlin. ... And in my notebook, it seems to have struck me as utterly vital that Eleanore and Serafeim meet in passing once before ( Read more... )

So the question is, realistically, where does an excommunicated Carthrusian go? He has no family and - outside of a potentially damning handful of charity from Burakgazi - no money. He has precisely no experience with secular life and an awful lot of existentialist dread building up over his circumstances: he hasn't lost his faith, only his ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure that Serafeim has taken a decided turn towards The Carthusian Order. Which is every so gloriously convenient, since I happen to have Into Great Silence sitting on my hard drive, unwatched and waiting. Is it also gloriously convenient that Into Great Silence is a documentary film of The Carthusian Order? Oh yes. Is it also gloriously ( Read more... )

Consider the philosophy professor, calm and cavalier, nearly absent-minded. He smiles a lot. He seems happy, but he talks about thanatos more than anyone else and works into every Munch painting and Bergman film subtle references to suicide. He tells us that he tried it once. It's not too difficult to believe, looking at him. He pulls himself up to ( Read more... )

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I spoke with Dr. Shaw in class on Thursday, and he made some truly intriguing - if Nietzschian - points regarding faith. Catholicism, he suggested, is a religion founded by slaves for slaves... designed to make them feel better about being slaves. Because they could not realistically expect their lot to improve in this life, they dwelt on the ( Read more... )

"Fallen angels who were not good enough to be saved, nor bad enough to be lost" say the peasantry...

I read my Tower of Souls notes this afternoon, avoided the musical [critical] analysis paper and the piano practice like plague. Threw the sheet music and the textbooks to one side just for today: today I was going to be a writer again. It was going ( Read more... )