CURRENT MISSION

no ideas but in things

ABOUT ME

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PHILOSOPHY

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.- E.B. White

That reminds me of the story about the two sailors.

They were looking at the water and one says, "It's a lot of water out there."

And the other guy says, "Yeah, and that's just the top of it."
--Vernon, Florida

"We always want to see what is hidden by what we see."
--Magritte

So there is the content of consciousness, dull, stupid, traditional thought, recognizing all its emotions---otherwise they are not emotions---always it is thought, which is the response of memory, knowledge, and experience, that is operating. Now can the mind look at this? Can you look at the operation of thought? And when you look, who is the observer who is looking at the content, is it different from the content? This is really a very important question to ask and to find an answer to. Is the observer different from the content and therefore capable of changing, altering, and going beyond the content? Or is it that the observer is the same as the content?.....
If one is seeking conformity, then thought, idea, has a place. The function of thought is to create a pattern for so-called action, and thereby kill action...Action implies insecurity, vulnerability to the unknown, and thought, belief, which is the known, is an effective barrier to the unknown. Thought can never penetrate into the unknown; it must cease for the unknown to be. The action of the unknown is beyond the action of thought; and thought, being aware of this, consciously or unconsciously clings to the known. The known is ever responding inadequately to the unknown, to the challenge, and from this inadequate response arise conflict, confusion, and misery. It is only when the known, the idea, ceases that there can be the action of the unknown, which is measureless.
- J Krishnamurti

The trouble God has, in my opinion--is he can't tell whether the stew needs more salt.
- Jack Gilbert

Being and non-being create each other.
- Radulescu

The interval between the I and Thou...is the locus where being is being realized.
- Levinas

If the material of thought is symbolism, then the thinking organism must be forever furnishing symbolic versions of its experiences, in order to let thinking proceed...it is not the essential act of thought that is symbolization, but an act essential to thought, and prior to it...The symbol-making function is one of man's primary activities, like eating, looking, or moving about. It is the fundamental process of his mind, and goes on all the time. Sometimes we are aware of it, sometimes we merely find its results, and realize that certain experiences have passed through our brains and have been digested there.
-Susanne K Langer

Stance: to speak from a place no one else is speaking from, a place necessary to the object. Stance plus authority equals the sign of the truth.

The more oppressed you feel by language, the better off you are.
- Gordon Lish

For the modern poet, in the gladness of his sorrowing strength, stands always on the farther verge of solipsism, having just emerged from it...For the poet is condemned to learn his profoundest yearnings through an awareness of other selves. The poem is within him, yet he experiences the shame and splendor of being found by poems...To lose freedom in this center is never to forgive, and to learn the dread of threatened autonomy forever.
- Harold Bloom

"Especially as every man is the son of his own works."
- Don Quixote

Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.

There was a line he kept repeating to himself that had the mystery and power he'd felt nowhere else but in the shared past of people who had loved each other, who lived so close they'd memorized each other's warts and cowlicks and addled pauses, so the line was not one voice but several and it spoke a more or less nonsensical theme, it was a line for any occasion or none at all, mainly meant to be funny but useful also in grim times to remind them that words stick even as lives fly apart.
- Don DeLillo

A thought contains the possibility of the situation of which it is the thought.
- Wittgenstein

Should this be literature? Is this my business-€to produce this? Is this right? Is this really what I want to be doing? And then this certainty that yes, this is exactly what I want to be doing. I am far from the only one who believes that experience teaches us that when you speak a nightmare and speak it to its limit, whatever it is, then that speech has a healing force. And if it's speakable, if the configuration of feeling can be manipulated, can be produced, then it's a true feeling, shared by many, and it's the sort of feeling which should be utterly revealed. I must say that for me-the respectable version of myself-there's still fear, and a great deal of disgust. Then I have to reassert myself as an artist, and say no, this is exactly my business.
-Diane Williams

Facts are lies, and that's a fact.- Harry Mathewsthere is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. there is another theory which states that this has already happened.- douglas adamsIn the inside there is sleeping, in the outside there is reddening, in the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling. In the evening there is feeling. In feeling anything is resting, in feeling anything is mounting, in feeling there is resignation, in feeling there is recognition, in feeling there is recurrence, and entirely mistaken there is pinching. All the standards have streamers and all the curtains have bed linen and all the yellow has discrimination and all the circle has circling. This makes sand.- Gertrude Stein

There has occurred a kind of depression, a hollowing out, such that the force and excitation of an intensity, productive of an egoism, a local and intensive subject to consume it, becomes now the force of a craving for another, becomes a demand for, an appeal to another. This depression is the very locus of repression and oppression; here is the vortex where the explosive libidinal excitations are repressed, and where the force of oppression by the social body invests the singular one. Here begins the breeding of the herd animal, a form of life in which every impulse is felt as a want, in which every excitation, every libidinal intensity that produces a moment of subjectivity, appeals to the herd. The ephemeral singularity of subjectivity becomes intrinsically gregarious; the human animal becomes socialized.
- Alphonso Lingis

If we didn't believe in anything, we wouldn't know how little we are.
- Walser

How can I possibly put an end to this when it feels so good to pull sounds out of my body and show them to you.
- Amy Hempel

The moral basis of Poetry is the accurate naming of the things of God.
- Flannery O'Connor

They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.
- Faulkner

Apparently it’s extraordinary, poetry—unless it’s actual poetry, in which case it’s irrelevant.
- Jason Schwartz

Interests

Your brain.

• animals
• literature
• poetry
• flying
• business

Music, Movies, and Books

Authors: Jorge Luis Borges, Gordon Lish, Sam Beckett, Gary Lutz, Gilles DeLeuze, Amos Tutuola, Diane Williams, Lydia Davis, Roland Barthes, Eugene Marten, Sharon Olds, Wallace Stevens, Mark Richard, Mary Robison, Noy Holland, Deb Olin Unferth, David Ohle, Don DeLillo, Susan Sontag, Stephen Dixon, Sam Lipsyte, Marianne Moore, Christine Schutt, Alphonso Lingis, Dennis Cooper, Susanne K Langer, Bill Tester, Emanuel Levinas, J. Krishnamurti, Amy Hempel, Robert Walser, Flannery O'Connor, Faulkner, Sam Michel, Virginia Woolf, Greg Mulcahy, Cormac McCarthy, Tillie Olsen, Jason Schwartz, Julia Kristeva Directors: Heidecker/Wareheim, Python, PFFR, Jodorowsky, Bunuel, Ed Wood Jr., Linklater, Nolan, Lynch, Chris Morris, Korine, Kubrick, Altman, Downey Sr., Ferrara, Zulawski, Tobe Hooper, Lynne Ramsay, Herzog, Cassavetes, Aronofsky, Malick, Jarmusch, Ronald Bronstein, Sergei Dvortsevoy, Donald Jackson, Errol Morris, Frederick Wiseman, Lanthimos, Obayashi, Bela Tarr, Ryan Trecartin, Paradjanov, Kuei Chih-Hung, Bresson, Pasolini, Ozu, Fassbinder

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Czech Republic, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Israel, Spain, United States