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Well, if nasty people like Leni can produce great art, what is so great about art?
Leni is Leni Riefenstahl. It's a good question with no easy answer that's at the heart of the book.
“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"
"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"
"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.”
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"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"
"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.”
―
“If we are attempting to write the Uncanny, our aim, surely, is to leave the reader with a sense of loss – of an understanding not quite grasped.”
― Writing the Uncanny
― Writing the Uncanny
“Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.”
― The Course of the Heart
― The Course of the Heart
“You know who I think is fascinating? Milton’s Satan. He recognizes a logical inconsistency in the cosmological hierarchy, calls God on it, and is punished for his action. He sees an abuse of power and he opts out of the whole damn system, preferring to suffer the flames of hell rather than become a prisoner to heaven.”
― Vastarien: Vol. 1, Issue 1
― Vastarien: Vol. 1, Issue 1
“Just as the mindfulness meditator is amazed to discover how mindless he is in daily life, so the first insights of the meditator who begins to question the self are normally not egolessness but the discovery of total egomania. Constantly one thinks, feels, and acts as though one had a self to protect and preserve. The slightest encroachment on the self's territory (a splinter in the finger, a noisy neighbor) arouses fear and anger. The slightest hope of self-enhancement (gain, praise, fame, pleasure) arouses greed and grasping. Any hint that a situation is irrelevant to the self (waiting for a bus, meditating) arouses boredom. Such impulses are instinctual, automatic, pervasive, and powerful. They are completely taken for granted in daily life.”
― The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience
― The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience
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