Blue: there should be anthems of blue. Only because ( Read more... )

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What I want is attention -- to be the object of attention, to be in the midst of attention, to bathe in attention. The physical dimension of attention is the glance. A man looks at another man or at a woman, a woman looks at another woman or a man. How do I see the glance? To see the glance must be to glance at the glance. But something is a ( Read more... )

To purify myself would be to write and to maintain focus, to remain conscious of each word I write in the act of writing it. The drug is underneath, but that's not the melody. The words are the melody. Last time I lost myself because I focussed on thought, and I can't get under the words to thought. But we always start with the things we know, ( Read more... )

The purification must begin. I must write, and only write, and see how long I can write, writing as much as I can. The purpose of the exercise is to string sentences together, one after another. There need be no metaphors, if the stream of thought does not contain them. What is it, then, to engage oneself in a written stream of thought? When I ( Read more... )

What is similar to itself is similar to the same,
And everything is like itself, more like itself
Than everything that is not that self
(And no self is another self).

If I want to give an exhaustive inventory of the world, where do I start ( Read more... )

The rule of the lever is easily explained, I think, by the following considerations ( Read more... )

A lever is, I suppose, a section of a plane set upon a fulcrum. A weight can be placed at either end of the plane. Archimedes made the following two assumptions ( Read more... )

Change is difference between an object and itself with respect to a quality between times.

Time is the composition of times.

A time is an actual(ized) state of the universe.

(Try giving a definition of the concept "a time" without using the concept "actual" or "actualized"!)