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"Reading this book is like walking through waist-deep powder snow; each word is another step, driving my knee through the medium.
Some notes:
-Dreams are the myths of a human, myths are the dreams of humanity
-Mythology's function is to carry the human spirit forward via symbolism
-A hero must detach/withdraw, enter the internal realm within, triumph over local mythologies, and become an "archetypal image"" — Nov 20, 2025 07:28AM
"Reading this book is like walking through waist-deep powder snow; each word is another step, driving my knee through the medium.
Some notes:
-Dreams are the myths of a human, myths are the dreams of humanity
-Mythology's function is to carry the human spirit forward via symbolism
-A hero must detach/withdraw, enter the internal realm within, triumph over local mythologies, and become an "archetypal image"" — Nov 20, 2025 07:28AM
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"Caligula
“One is always free at someone else’s expense”
“I want to drown the sky in the sea, to infuse ugliness with beauty, to wring a laugh from pain.”
“Yes, I wanted the moon”
“Most people imagine that a man suffers because out of the blue death snatches away the woman he loves. But his real suffering is less futile; it comes from the discovery that grief, too, cannot last. Even grief is vanity.”" — Nov 17, 2025 06:24PM
"Caligula
“One is always free at someone else’s expense”
“I want to drown the sky in the sea, to infuse ugliness with beauty, to wring a laugh from pain.”
“Yes, I wanted the moon”
“Most people imagine that a man suffers because out of the blue death snatches away the woman he loves. But his real suffering is less futile; it comes from the discovery that grief, too, cannot last. Even grief is vanity.”" — Nov 17, 2025 06:24PM
“Nature always wins. It has never lost, and I pray it never will.”
― Harassment Architecture
― Harassment Architecture
“Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.”
― Thirst for Love
― Thirst for Love
“When I was small, I would watch the young men parade the portable shrine through the streets at the local shrine festival. They were intoxicated with their task, and their expressions were of an indescribable abandon, their faces averted; some of them even rested the backs of their necks against the shafts of the shrine they shouldered, so that their eyes gazed up at the heavens. And my mind was much troubled by the riddle of what it was that those eyes reflected.
As to the nature of the intoxicating vision that I detected in all this violent physical stress, my imagination provided no clue. For many a month, therefore, the enigma continued to occupy my mind; it was only much later, after I had begun to learn the language of the flesh, that I undertook to help in shouldering a portable shrine, and was at last able to solve the puzzle that had plagued me since infancy. They were simply looking at the sky. In their eyes there was no vision: only the reflection of the blue and absolute skies of early autumn..”
― Sun & Steel
As to the nature of the intoxicating vision that I detected in all this violent physical stress, my imagination provided no clue. For many a month, therefore, the enigma continued to occupy my mind; it was only much later, after I had begun to learn the language of the flesh, that I undertook to help in shouldering a portable shrine, and was at last able to solve the puzzle that had plagued me since infancy. They were simply looking at the sky. In their eyes there was no vision: only the reflection of the blue and absolute skies of early autumn..”
― Sun & Steel
“It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.”
― Sun & Steel
― Sun & Steel
“If my self was my dwelling, then my body resembled an orchard that surrounded it. I could either cultivate that orchard to its capacity or leave it for the weeds to run riot in.”
― Sun & Steel
― Sun & Steel
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