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"This is gonna be a long and a great one.I only started navigating my way through the articles in the book. I read Brian Eno’s article on the ambient music and Umberto Eco’s Open Work, the latter I will have to revisit as it was quite conceptual. Then I read Ornette Coleman’s article on improvisation and free jazz. Now, I’m back in the beginning reading the Introduction. I will pick up from Frank Zappa later." — Dec 13, 2020 04:12PM
"This is gonna be a long and a great one.I only started navigating my way through the articles in the book. I read Brian Eno’s article on the ambient music and Umberto Eco’s Open Work, the latter I will have to revisit as it was quite conceptual. Then I read Ornette Coleman’s article on improvisation and free jazz. Now, I’m back in the beginning reading the Introduction. I will pick up from Frank Zappa later." — Dec 13, 2020 04:12PM
Naturally, most of us would like to die a peaceful death, but it is also clear that we cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated by emotions like anger, attachment, or
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“Much has been written of love turning to hatred, of the heart growing cold with the death of love. It is a remarkable process. It is far more terrible than anything I have ever read about it, more terrible than anything I will ever be able to say.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“Perspicacious theologians know very well [the] paradox of a decision which retroactively posits it’s own reasons: of course there are good reasons to believe in Jesus Christ, but these reasons are fully comprehensible only to those who already believe in him.”
― Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
― Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
“More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.”
― The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
― The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
“I want to work, and I’m lucky enough to be able to. Of course I’m grateful for that. How could I not be? Except, well, I don’t want to work. I really don’t. Life has nothing to do with work and work has no real bearing on life. I used to think they were connected, but now I can see there’s just no way.”
― The Factory
― The Factory
“The sociologist Elise Boulding diagnosed the problem of our times as “temporal exhaustion”: “If one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imaging the future.”
― The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
― The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
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