I want to return to Samuel Beckett's biography or his books! *__*

Merry Christmas everyone! May it be nice, peaceful, cozy, warm. ☺️ Have a good time enjoying what you love and celebrating, unwinding. 🙂

Alright, I wrote that journal entry on my differences with Camus' philosophy and some other things. ^^ (I'll just need to finish it later) It's nice, some interesting new things to think and write about came up. 🙂 Writing things down actually helps me think in more complex way,

Welp, my pen's refill run out. (I've got another pen, fortunately) I guess it really shows how much I've written longhand: in a journal and calendar. A nice change from all that typying. ^^

I now have a separate folder for Albert Camus' pictures. ^-^ (Inside "Humanities" folder. There are only a few pictures there, but still ^^) He's got the coolest photos. ^^

Observing the timeline to repost Christmas anime girls and see when to wish Christmas Wishes. ^^

I have more thoughts on and from Camus. ^^ But I think I'll just write this out in my journal. Camus' Notebooks contain so many good and interesting observations and thoughts. For the first time it made me want to circle them with a pencil in a book, to come back to them.

I guess I'm still ambiguous regarding some of Camus ideas, contradictory. I should think this through. But I agree (with Bataille) that humans have contradictory elements in them too. I still like many of Camus ideas and its nice to get into his thoughts and what he notices in his Notebooks.

Regarding Camus, I remember back then, that besides liking many of his ideas, quotes, texts there were also many ideas of his I also disagreed with him, quite significantly. And it's still like this. Maybe the disagreeing points have changed. I disagree with him about focusing on

That's so interesting. A story idea from Albert Camus' Notebooks, about a man who refuses to justify himself. I think it's a concept of his "Stranger".

if you see this, post your bird art!! haibane renmei 😭

Book haul of the day It was very nice. I found 3 of the best books ever with Solenoid, Septology and Infinite Jest in my native language

I remember thinking that the characters in "Casablanca" movie were so brave and cool. And it made me wonder if such moral courage (or manliness) was common in the time of Second World War. But @pangurban.bsky.social told me it was just something people idolized and aspired to. It reminds me of

Also I could benefit from rereading Albert Camus' works, I last read him when I was still at university (if you don't count reading the monograph on him and his biography). I don't really reread books, but I could start. I'm still able to read about 20 books a year, which is

I asked my mom if she has heard about Jacques Brel and she had! She said he was known for his literary songs and that Polish singers had covered him.

Instagram Albert Camus convinces me that literal meaning of life is whatever I'm doing that prevents me from killing myself. (and I like it a lot) I knew that the meaning of life is watching and discussing cute anime girls on social media with oomfies and reading Camus' Notebooks.

Man, Jacques Brel's voice got better, lower, as he aged and he got more handsome too. Lucky. I like his cigarette aesthetics, he reminds me of Camus. I just favorited a bunch of his songs, after listening to him more. ^^

Accomplished Hasunosora's stamp rally version 4 titled as Hasunosora Fantasy at Ishikawa Prefectural Library (石川県立図書館) yesterday. Bibliophiles can spend a whole day here thanks to the attached cafeteria serving perfect lunch dinner to fuel them, and I'm not the exception. I love it here.

Btw getting a Munch's "Scream" reproduction in the middle of the room actually sounds nice, relatable and expressive. ^^ And some anime posters! Too bad that in my house it would look bad next to yellow wallpapers (like in the book!). I wonder if I'll ever be able to do something

I looked up X again a bit. So addictive. 😅 I like the fun and animeposting there, all the frens. But I like how BlueSky is Musk-free. I think I will keep both of these platforms and accounts and switch and post between them. Maybe in the meantime Musk will lose his power or some tech revolution will

Btw just imagine reading the Derrida on theology books on Christmas. I love them. 🥰

I'm listening to "Jesus Christ Superstar" songs in time for Christmas. ☺️ I have quite a few Christian books and content. ^^

A Girardian quote from Kierkegaard, as noted by Camus: "A source of all our plights is comparison".

@charlieyuki.bsky.social Thank you for liking my posts Charlie! It's so nice to see you! 😃 Do you post on twitter too or did you move to BlueSky?

Btw I've first heard the term "micromania" from Przybyszewski. I couldn't believe he had it, as characters in his books are rather megalomaniacs. ^^ But I think Matuszek wrote that you can see it based on his letters, I'm not sure. Plus Przybyszewski is said to write books where

I'm trying to decide whether to read Camus' Notebooks or Derrida's biography. I like them both. I'm actually loving the mood of Camus' Notebooks. It also makes me panic a little, because he perceives much more than me and makes me get micromania. But I guess I should be happy I can learn and feel

HAIBANE RENMEI

AKANE TENDO

I miss the gold old days. In the modern GitS, Kusanagi just has a USB-C port and has to use an external adapter for the other inputs.

Man, it's pretty incredible to think Jacques Brel got so famous in France. I wish literary, theatrical songs got more popular here in Poland too. But tbh actors' songs did get popular here, along with sung poetry. That's actually a very cool feature of Polish culture abd music.

It makes me wonder if there are any another good twitter alternatives. I like the idea of Mastodon, but I guess the problem is it was too difficult for people to use. It was pretty bad how it didn't have search function for users' posts. Also how unstable the servers could get. Still, its idea was

It makes me think I should seek out more alternatives to software monopolies if I dislike them too. I used to do that. And I shouldn't get discouraged.

It makes me want to read the books on social media platforms that I wrote down too.

I've just seen new twitter terms of service. I guess Musk knows he's got a monopoly and can do whatever he wants. And that people will stay. Since there are so many good accounts there, people stay for them. But I guess it would change if more people would move. I guess moving to BlueSky would mean

Yay, I attended the Kundera ("Unbearable lightness of being") seminar. I've done a lot of noting, I learned a lot, it was fun. People were expressive and very active. The thought about the role of chance was interesting and I like all the pondering about the role of paradise dog+

I'm coming back to one of my favorite topics, that is modern outcast young men. And once again I'm swearing to myself I'll watch this Chuck Palahniuk talk with Joe Rogan and read his new(ish) book about them. ^^ I hope that someone got more commentary from Palahniuk as

What a fascinating article, on Johnny Depp wanting to produce his own English film version of "Master and Margarita" and about the latest Russian film on the book with modern anti-Putin message, iirc. That makes me want to see other film adaptations and finish the book! +

Such intriguing conceptual, philosophical reading from Douglas' "Against Identity". I wonder what's next.

Douglas makes an intriguing point that originally we are indefinite, without identity. And that as such we can contain whichever identity we desire. There's also a free part in us, that is exempt from identity. It seems like he supports switching identities from other people, as

I'm reading Alexander Douglas' "Against Identity". Interesting theory, that we form our identity by coping others, just like Girard says. I wanted to get into his mimetic theory recently. It's interesting how he combined it with Christianity.

Google fit praises me! ("Amazing" is not enough!" "Both goals for today got reached")

Yesterday I chose the longer 1 km road to the other bus stop home. It was nice to walk and chill and watch and experience people. It makes me want to go to the academic library again, even though it's at the other end of the city. 😅 I'll need to renew my graduate library card. +

Btw regarding Dick, "Stigmata" and "Valis" trilogy (that I want to read) and psychedelic 70s, Leary and Laing. I've read nowadays there's a renaissance of research on psychedelics and their use in psychiatry. I want to read on it. *__*

I'm browsing my Spotify's music recommendations and there's almost no Japanese music. No j-pop, no Japanese indie. Very strange.

Ciekawie wyglądające teksty o lekach psychotropowych i uzależnieniu od nich w Polsce z "Tygodnika powszechnego". (tygodnikpowszechny.pl/leki-staly-sie…) (tygodnikpowszechny.pl/polska-na-psyc���)

Ah, I want to read Cortazar's "Hopscotch" ever since learning the protagonist tries out various jobs and at one point he works at psychiatric hospital! ❤️

Oh and Cegielski also quotes Janion saying that the dead stay with us forever.

Super intriguing article by Max Cegielski in the newest "Tygodnik powszechny" About how war affects young Poles and about novels, books they write about it. The ways they use are interesting, like psychologism, trauma studies, class and regional analysis. I loved (+)

That was a day of much writing, idea-noting, book-preparing, browsing and scrolling. ^^ I feel like it was fruitful idea-wise and I've done quite a bit. But I'll be able to discover all that only later, when I'll come to my senses. :D I'll be a bit busy in the week, so I'm glad