“… he gave me the impression that he was repeating something which he had learned by heart or that, magnetised by some words of his own speech, his mind was slowly circling round and round in the same orbit…
…His mind, as if magnetised again by his speech, seemed to circle round and round its new [...]
is happening in 6 days, it’d be nice if you came.
Excerpts from A Painful Case, in Dubliners
An artist must regulate his life.
Here is a time-table of my daily acts. I rise at 7.18; am inspired from 10.23 to 11.47. I lunch at 12.11 and leave the table at 12.14. A healthy ride on horse-back round my domain follows from 1.19 pm to 2.53 pm. Another bout of inspiration from 3.12 [...]
guattari’s crystal ball:
Projects of social transformation are doomed to impotence, if they don’t include themselves in a strategy of change in a world wide scale.1
and later:
We are heading towards rupture of the type: 90% of a frigthened conservative mass, stupefied by mass media, and 10% in a more or less refractory2 minority … …What appears [...]
The Simurg is an immortal bird which nests on the branches of the Tree of Science; Burton equates it with the scandinavian eagle that, according to the Minor Edda, has knowledge of many things and nests on the branches of the Cosmic Tree, called Yggdrasill.
Southey’s Thalaba (1801) and Flaubert’s The Temptation of Saint Anthony [...]
An apology, to begin with. This is a post, in fact, about cats. Were that not bad enough, it is a post about my cats, plus an invader or guest, depending who and when you ask. Pictured above is the screen on the kitchen window, as i found it today. That gaping [...]
On Cybernetics and Society, Norbert Wiener argues that our human ability to learn and adapt to new circumstances is the key contributing factor to our perceived superiority over other living creatures, that this ability to learn and adapt is dependent on memory and that
The physiological condition for memory and hence for learning seems to [...]
I am afraid that i am convinced that a community of human beings is a far more useful thing than a community of ants; and that if the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be good ant, not to mention a good [...]
Thanks to all who came to the open studios; The most rewarding aspect, was having people bring their frame of reference into the work, and point out aspects which I was dimly aware of. For example: the element of domesticity in the work, especially nice was having one person come in [...]