The questions that [Nietzsche] posed touch on tragedy, laughter, suffering, and the enjoyment of suffering, wealth, and the freedom of the mind: in general, the extreme states the human mind can reach. …His doctrine of dangerous life, of lucid, unbound, contemptuous humanity, is foreign to public struggles. It concerns solitaries hostile to the universe….
A friend is gone. Al Lykins passed away a few weeks ago. I miss having coffee with Al, swapping stories about life. Al was a teller of stories, an enchanter. I know that Al’s time to go arrived. It is impossible not to wish there had been more time. Al was a Buddhist. I…
But without the night, without despair, and without the irremediable terror that strikes me would I have known the inaccessible happiness of the summit? …Responding, out of breath, to the moral interrogation that I proposed to myself in anguish, I would be forever separated. By letting the interrogation open within me like a wound,…
To go to the summit, to put oneself at risk without reason at least a reason that can be stated, to propose a summit as a summit, to risk only for the love of anguish. …a conclusion: we can only speak of a summit by altering it, making it equal to decline. But we…
…burning desire in search of “communication.” Desire in “communication” bears essentially on the beyond of the being. But this beyond is not only the nothingness that limits us, toward which we throw ourselves, wanting to touch another being; it is at the same time the interrogation of the being that we are. …We can…
Roll The Bones By Rush Well, you can stake that claimGood work is the key to good fortuneWinners take that praiseLosers seldom take that blameIf they don’t take that gameAnd sometimes the winner takes nothingWe draw our own designsBut fortune has to make that frame We go out in the world and take our…
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll published in 1865 has been overlooked. I hope to “catch up” with this widely recognized tale soon. Amazon offered a paperback copy for $2.95 and I expect the book to arrive sometime Friday. Time and space distortion is a feature of the story as I am given…
A certain non-knowledge must leave me disarmed before what I have to do… so that I have to do it in order for me to feel freely obligated and bound to it… It is necessary to know the most and the best possible, but between the widest, the most refined, the most necessary knowledge,…
Friday morning, the air clean, brisk, — is illumined by our sun. Humanity is warmed by the same sun, as our home world rotates. Every word in the two sentences just written is relative, a marker for a set of relationships. Nevertheless all of it feels absolutely true. Do you not feel that humanity…
Man is a fly behind a window and the time that he passes in beating against the window is the most human, being the most rebellious. –excerpt On Nietzsche, Notes, page 287 by Georges Bataille Sadness, tinged with some grief this morning. Loss is more or less, greater and lesser, equivalent to life. I…
