"Oh Zarathustra," he murmured scornfully, syllable by syllable. "You stone of wisdom! You hurled yourself high, but every hurled stone must - fall ( Read more... )

I came into this world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things, my spirit filled with the desire to attain to the source of the world, and then I found that I was an object in the midst of other objects.

Sealed into that crushing objecthood, I turned beseechingly to others. Their attention was a liberation, running over my body suddenly ( Read more... )

Technological optimism comes in small packages (just for kids).

three seven
six four
eight three nine
four-four.
walking;
falling;
carpet;
floor.

"Don't worry about saving these songs ( Read more... )

"Escalator is on the way up. Legs folded, three steps above the hips. Upper body propped up by hands leaning back. Suddenly, something doesn’t go quite right and he crumples: legs fold to the left and sink two steps. Head leans into the moving sides, which pushes him off-balance. Limp, his head almost collides with the steps lower down before I ( Read more... )

"CHANGE
What a horrid, distasteful euphemism for clumsy labour, the stuttering litanies of movement and this-and-that.

One only needs a minute-score at the station called 'union' to determine the physiognomy-the face- of change, and to whom 'change' is coming: That bleary eyed, slack-jawed, dreary, weary face.

An angry slap would do little to ( Read more... )

ressentiment |rəˌsä n tēˈmä n |
noun

a psychological state arising from suppressed feelings of envy and hatred that cannot be acted upon, frequently resulting in some form of self-abasement.

ORIGIN via German (used by Nietzsche in this sense) from French ressentiment ‘feeling.’

It is in the greatest interest to those involved to cease their involvement, to procure the theft of their selves, and to forage, through fomenting the frailties that foster faults along the fake issue, final freedom from freedom. True tribulations in consciousness, no doubt. Where conscious lies and fractious folly leave no room to fall about, I ( Read more... )

Syria's foreign minister said in Damascus on Wednesday: "Syria exercised a sort of quiet diplomacy to solve this problem and encourage dialogue between the two parties."

Translation:

Syria's foreign minister said in Damascus on Wednesday: "Syria did nothing [and waited for things to finish up before saying anything]."

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(From Iran strikes blow in ( Read more... )