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…
When one no longer finds God great, one no longer finds God anywhere; God must be denied or created. –excerpt The Will To Power, II. bk. 3 §422 by Friedrich Nietzsche Sunday morning, winter weather has moderated. The sun is shining, a bonus for a mid-western winter’s day. Very soon those with a lingering…
Theory of chance. The soul, a selective and self-nourishing entity, extremely shrewd and perpetually creative (this creative force is usually overlooked!) is conceived only as passive. To recognize the active force, the creative force among the contingencies: chance itself is only the clash of creative impulses. –excerpt The Will To Power, II, bk. 4,…
We should reconsider cruelty and open our eyes… Almost everything we call “higher culture” is based upon the spiritualization and deepening of cruelty: This is my proposition. That wild beast has not really been killed; it lives and flourishes, it has merely become — divine. What constitutes the painful voluptuousness of tragedy is cruelty;…
