In which I invoked Nietzsche’s Rausch #booksky

Write,' said that voice, and the prophet answered, 'For whom.' The voice spoke, 'For the dead, for those you love in past generations,' "Will they read it.)' 'Yes, for they return as posterity.' [As quoted by Kierkegaard in his notebooks from the late 1830's.]

Guess where it took me? To Molinos.

Thank you for this opportunity. As someone whose worldview has become much nuanced because of Aeon, it is a privilege to be your author.

This Essay by the journalist Rahul Pandita provides a rare opportunity to hear from a close observer of the guerilla leaders of India’s Maoist movement

My debut novel, Our Friends in Good Houses, is out from @harpercollins.bsky.social — it’s about a war reporter’s inner struggle with the idea of impermanence. #booksky

Delighted to share the cover of my first novel, “Our Friends in Good Houses”, published in India by @harpercollins.bsky.social — here’s an announcement harpercollins.co.in/blog/announc... #booksky #authors

I mean can you believe this! #booksky

“It turns out you don’t get to love the ones you want, you love the ones who stay” ~ Ghosts, Rick Barot

You have to wish me luck.

Reading Mary Oliver this a.m. and meditating on “refuse all cooperation with the heart’s death.”

“Sometimes the voice of a philosophical thought is so soft that the noise of spoken words is enough to drown it and prevent it from being heard” ~ Wittgenstein

“What can we do about God, who makes and then breaks every god-forsaken, beautiful day?” ~ Three Histories and a Hummingbird, Mary Oliver

“A physiologist examines a frog not because he’s learning to croak” - Viktor Shklovsky #booksky #authors #RussianFormalism

Totally immersed.

Stephen Batchelor, The art of Solitude.

Weldon Kees.

The three-fold path.

Nothing is as sweet in the end as country and parents, ever, even if, far away, you live in a fertile place: Homer

Later this year.

“Man will continue to talk, man will continue to bear witness with or without Adorno”: Paul Celan to Jean Daive

4.10. Hermitage seekers.

David Lynch on inspiration in diners.

As Wittgenstein said, the place to which I really have to go is one that I must actually be at already.

“And we recognize, with beating heart, the house of our dreams.”

Merry Christmas from Robert Walser.

At last, my little envelope is ready for you, at last you hear from me again, after it must’ve seemed, I had sunk into a dead silence. - Nietzsche in a letter, as quoted by Derrida at the beginning of SPURS

Fornicating, Denise Duhamel

“There must be some incorporeal, immortal substance in man, over and above the body, something, indeed, incapable of being resolved into parts.”

“An improvement in living conditions often goes hand in hand with a deterioration of reasons for living, and living together in particular” ~ Annihilation, Michel Houellebecq

“The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.”

In my "Writing for the Anthropocene" class this morning, we discussed the collection Not Too Late, ed. by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua. Here's a quote from the book that seems right for Bluesky:

There is a small inscription that the philosopher Heidegger had placed above the entrance to his home. It read: "Protect your heart with all vigilance, for it is the wellspring of life.”

Keep your mind in hell and despair not.