“Memory is threatening to replace history in an era saturated with memory. This is bad news. Memory and history are notionally opposites: memory is individual, partial and subjective; history is collective and aspires to be comprehensive and objective. Memory and history are also complementary: history gives sense to memory; memory is a tool, an ingredient, a part of history. But memory is not history.”
― El impostor
― El impostor
“A major section of modern art and poetry unconsciously guides us in the direction of madness; and, indeed, for the modern man there is no other way. Only madness is inaccessible to the machine.”
― The Technological Society
― The Technological Society
“One of the most important chapters in the Book of the Dead, chapter 125, is devoted to the judgment of the soul in the great hall called “Of the Two Maats”67 The deceased’s heart is suspended on one pan of the scales; on the other is a feather or an eye, symbols of maat. During the operation, the deceased recites a prayer, imploring his heart not to bear witness against him. Then he must utter a declaration of innocence, erroneously termed the “negative confession”:”
― A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries
― A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries
“Victor of course never failed to fire a monster joint on these underground missions. And there he would sit reading. He liked how those books made him feel, the books and the weed, his brain humming with knowledge, an odd and lovely sort of expansion feeling these threads of words that stretched across continents and decades, a sort of feeling that he, too, was stretched and flattened, his brain spread like a map across the world.”
― Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
― Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
“Briefly, the mentality of the plant-men in every age was an expression of the varying tension between the two sides of their nature, between the active assertive, objectively inquisitive, and morally positive animal nature and the passive subjectively contemplative and devoutly acquiescent vegetable state nature.”
― Star Maker
― Star Maker
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