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,…
…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…
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,…
Exceptional beauty, richness are evoked by disorders of the flesh. If the attracting light of those disorders is the sign of a summit, this summit is only open to chance; the virtue to which a moral goal is normally proposed is on the contrary set aside, made ridiculous. –excerpt On Nietzsche, Notes, by Georges…
Temptation is the work of the flesh represented as at once desirable and dangerous possibility. What the body desires, that the mind re-presents in the grammar of language… Are not words a form of touching, certainly a most oft used manner of touch? Desire and danger at the same time! Temptation is excitement simultaneously…
We can hardly find the nothingness other than precisely where we would not like to go. Temptation is in a sense the extreme moment of sensuality. It is to the extent that we reject it that it makes us afraid, that sensuality has the power to make us attain nothingness. Insofar as temptation is…
The media is the politicians’ mirror, developed in the political and corporate financiers interest. It exists to sell a product. politicians and products alike thrive on being seen on a screen, they crave its validation. As a mirror it is but an image, a self-contained world, flat, insubstantial and brittle as glass. The media…
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…
Midweek, the sun shines, the usual frigid winter cold has moderated. A good day for a long walk, and lunch with a friend. What to write about as several things present themselves to mind today. First is the wonder of learning, no matter our circumstances, there are elements at hand to admire, recognize as…
Life— that means for us constantly transforming all that we are into light and flame —also everything that wounds us; we simply cannot do otherwise. –excerpt The Gay Science, Preface, §3 by Friedrich Nietzsche Last night I watched the Grammy Awards on CBS. I was indifferent to most of the two hour show. It…
