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53 seconds seems a life time ( Read more... )

"... the brain is no more than a kind of central telephone exchange: its office is to allow communication or to delay it. It adds nothing to what it receives ... That is to say that the nervous system is in no sense an apparatus which may serve to fabricate, or even prepare, representations. Its function is to receive stimulation, to provide motor ( Read more... )

with the increase of my suffering and the advancement of the infection i am most vulnerable to watching shmultzy dvd's like samsara, getting overwhelmed by fluttering advertisement flags in the supermarket and finding myself rating ridiculous questions like some in this quiz. finally i have a little direction; perhaps a small journey to the ( Read more... )

Just saw Park Chan-Wook's 'Old Boy'. His 'aesthetic of excess' gushing out into a near empty Schonell; the characters felt swollen - the bodies too full to contain their blood ... and teeth ... and .... ants ('only lonely people are obsessed by ants'). Even though it reminded me of banana yoshimoto's N.P I still didnt get the closer. Sprung a leak ( Read more... )

Perusing the books on the new stall was a ruse - the stall setup was captivating and the stallholder had a bland but dignified dishevelment that intrigued. The space she had appropriated had never been used before - away from the popular deep shaded arbour - but on a busy access point beneath a leafy outreached bough. It was if the massive fig had ( Read more... )

As Derrida grew ill, death haunted him. In a Le Monde interview in August, Derrida said that learning to live means learning to die.

``Less and less, I have not learned to accept death,'' he was quoted as saying. ``I remain uneducable about the wisdom of learning to die.''

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Jou verbond ( Read more... )

amidst great anticipation the loggerhead turtle hatchlings were on the move and andy couldnt believe it was her standing there in the fullmoon light watching the urgent little procession to the sloshing pacific ( Read more... )

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