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Really great overview of some important essays on current ideas in architecture, particularly addressing a "digital" mindset.
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Originally posted by whatisit View PostKafka« Attacks on the road, in the evening, in the snow. There are conflicting thoughts always in my head, more or less thus: My situation in this world would seem to be a dreadful one, alone here in Spindlermühle, on a forsaken road, moreover, where one keeps slipping in the snow in the dark, a senseless road, moreover, without any earthly goal (it leads to the bridge? Why there? In any event I didn't even go that far); I too am forsaken in this place (I cannot consider the doctor to be any personal help, I didn't win his aid by my merits, at bottom the fee is my only relationship to him), incapable of striking up a friendship with anyone, unable to bear having any acquaintances, full, in fact, of an infinite astonishment before a cheerful company or before parents with their children (at the hotel, indeed, there is not much gaiety; I wouldn't go so far as to say that I am the cause, in my capacity as "man with too long a shadow," but as a matter of fact my shadow is too long, and with fresh astonishment I observe the capacity for resistance, the obstinacy of certain beings who want to live "in spite of everything" in this shadow, right in it - but there is much more than this to be said on the matter); forsaken moreover not only here but in general, even in Prague, my "home", and what is more, forsaken not by people (that would not be the worst - as long as I live I could chase after them), but rather by myself vis-a-vis people, by my strength with regard to them. I am fond of lovers, but I cannot love, I am too remote, I am excluded. »
Last edited by Acéphale; 02-03-2011, 08:44 PM.ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα
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Originally posted by swami View PostBukowski's WOMEN , really enjoying it !
I can swear the character of Hank Moody on CALIFORNICATION is a watered down / sugared up version of Henry!
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Just finished Pornographia by Witold Gombrowicz, the English translation by Danuta Borchardt. It's worth reading - the book uses twisted, striking phrasing and a light touch to build insights about aging and eroticism into an entertaining, good humored sex farce about two Polish intellectuals manipulating two sixteen year olds into committing murder. The translation seemed like it was a particularly good one.
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Originally posted by 525252 View Post
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Just gave up on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
Her mindset makes sense to me in creative disciplines, a la Fountainhead, but not so much her blatant praise of capitalism - the half facts, half truths, one-sided-ness really gets to me.
Finishing a Nietzsche anthology and then moving onto some Kafka is my plan now.
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Originally posted by Real Real View PostJust finished Pornographia by Witold Gombrowicz, the English translation by Danuta Borchardt. It's worth reading - the book uses twisted, striking phrasing and a light touch to build insights about aging and eroticism into an entertaining, good humored sex farce about two Polish intellectuals manipulating two sixteen year olds into committing murder. The translation seemed like it was a particularly good one.
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