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to see action in the midst of inaction and inaction in the midst of action

it’s no call me by your name but it’s good

guna = nature’s 3 strands, actions are performed by the nature of 3 gunas, the deluded man attached action to himself (“i am the doer” or “mine”). desire/anger (the guna called rajas) and attachment to sense-objects destroy wisdom. the man cannot reach the highest good (bliss/perfect peace). some cool metaphors: fire obscured by smoke, mirror by dust, fetus by membrane, wisdom by desire. they are enemies.

krishna — the blessed one — describes how the unmoved man, the wise man, the man of firm wisdom is indifferent to winds and tides, victories or defeats. he must know his duty and act without hesitation (for arjuna it is to fight), lest there be dishonor. he must know how to withdraw his senses, like a tortoise back into its shell, and find peace. each being is rebirthed so grief over action is unreasonable.

ultimate question of the bhagavad gita brought to light by the confrontation between arjuna and dhristarashtra’s army is: in a world of splintering social, familial, and moral orders, how does one know what their dharma is and act upon it? and is victory on the battlefield worth breaking perceived dharma?

idk why the reviews are so indignant about this trashy book being trashy like come on we saw this coming 😭 the first few pages are 1. ai generated official fan art 2. a playlist of songs half of which are taylor swift and 3. a QR code to scan for a detailed list of “topics content, profanity, and topics that may be sensitive to some readers”

intrigued by this bc cmbyn was inspired by it + "the novel is a deep, introspective journey into the narrator's self-discovery, social climbing, and disillusionment, ultimately finding meaning in art" sounds kinda like me

this book has no right being 594 pages. it's the level of writing that makes me think i could probably write a book

the discipline it takes to read this line by line without blazing through. so good. the yearninggg

great introduction by janko on the historical context in which aristotle was working—the political changes in athens + response to plato’s attack on poetry. also loved the research he did to delegitimize sigmund freud’s uncle’s take on the medical meaning of catharsis. let’s stop applying freudian psychoanalysis to everything ty! i too am beefing with sigmund freud’s essay for my research paper

in his introduction, said takes on the call by foucault to examine the historical and cultural production of text, representation, and the orient to produce an entire discourse. a discourse!!

you can try to chop him up, mince him, roast him with fire, and strike him with thunderbolts but you can’t kill him 🤷‍♀️

sun wukong is ridiculous

shaping up to be a five star read. high school me would be shocked

tragedy is when we are most alive… truth is a lie… every concept comes into being by metaphor and perception but makes us forget features that differentiate one thing from another… what next is stoicism… ik he’s problematic but lowkey this is how i’ve been thinking these days after going through tragedy haha wtf

here we go again

so hard… rereading this but it feels like i’m reading it for the first time

went into this without having read jane eyre

i am experiencing brontë fatigue. dare i say prosaic... nay, i should not say that (and yet i think it). pls just let me go on spring break i can't read nor write anymore

the first sentence sent me down a google maps rabbit hole (igor’s city was in kievan, now in ukraine), which sent me on a quest to learn the russian alphabet, which inevitably led me to trying to roll my Rs (still can’t do it), but i got frustrated so went back to french (i thrifted a vintage french travel guide yesterday! süleymaniye est la plus belle d’entre les mosquées d’Istanbul). circular ass morning

free my girl free herrrr. she sees herself though the eyes of graham - so plain and ordinary. yet she’s so full of wit and discernment and love for art. girl. wake up!!!!

did you guys know that the olive branch symbolizes unbroken peace bc olive oil is not easily broken by another liquid and bc the olive tree is in leaf all year round 🙀 personally i did not but accordingly to augustine this is a well known fact 😓 how ignorant of things am i

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a small man

pg 86: stood out to me because of its construction of gender — Madame Beck’s countenance transforms Lucy from timidity to ambition, and this countenance is attributed as a manly power — rather than that of a woman (desc. as congenial and submissive). ironically, we come across so many female characters from the rowdy schoolchildren to the good-humored Miss Fanshawe, revealing Lucy’s deep biases

fan freaking tastic conception of love

loving it so far. men making women irrational since the 18th century, wow what a big shocker

i’ve been reading this book like it’s a tv show since january. i love selin