Full Of Emotion

so that I don't forget

THE LESSON OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS, OF GREEK TRAGEDY, AND ULTIMATELY, OF ALL RELIGIONS, IS THAT THERE IS AN INSTINCTIVE TENDENCY TOWARDS DIVINE INTOXICATION WHICH THE RATIONAL WORLD OF CALCULATION CANNOT BEAR.* IF YOURE LISTENING!! IF YOU EVEN CARE!!!!

*Georges Bataille, Literature and Evil

It's a strange spectacle to see how much the community around skeptical inquirer cares about issues of little relevance to culture or power structures

Some people defend this kind of rationalist ideology by talking about, say, anti-superstition activists in India, but those people are admirable for the specific reason that they are undermining hierarchical power structures

A Western skeptic getting angry about Americans venerating ghosts with offerings --- that's not subversive, and it's worthy of contempt!

Always be sus of ideas that confuse the value of art with technical skill, talent, or hard work. There's a reason people used to think of it as 'divine inspiration' -- artistic success, is mysterious, arbitrary, and about getting possessed by supernatural organisms

The Paracas culture made the best art in the universe

(they are also the inspiration for a lot of the imagery in Yume Nikki)

there's something unique about Aztec images ❤ They are full of life yet schematic and precise, I want to immerse myself in this world forever

Variety of depictions of Xolotl!

Twinned with "was it written on drugs" for how destructive and limited a way of interpreting weird stuff it is

But it's also a problem that it implies the sex aspect is inherently a bad motivation, or that such an aspect can't be scrambled together with other motivations to make something really powerful

idk it seems almost like...screening the writer for aberrant sexual interests has become a standard part of how people interpret fiction that is even a little edgy and it's not good? reading someone's work and being like "is this a sex thing? is it? is it???" before you feel you can speak on it is pretty limiting, and if you're actually taking the writer to task on social media about this it's just creepy or straight-up sexual harassment. let the writing speak for itself girl, you're not this person's therapist

🩷Heraclitus

Favorite Heraclitus

If all things were turned to smoke, the nostrils would distinguish them

All the things we see when awake are death, even as all we see in slumber are sleep

Man kindles a light for himself in the night-time, when he has died but is alive. The sleeper, whose vision has been put out, lights up from the dead; he that is awake lights up from the sleeping

This world,[13] which is the same for all, no one of gods or men has made; but it was ever, is now, and ever shall be an ever-living Fire, with measures of it kindling, and measures going out

Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

Wisdom is one thing. It is to know the thought by which all things are steered through all things

We step and do not step into the same rivers; we are and are not.

Time is a child playing draughts, the kingly power is a child's

Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others' death and dying the others' life.

They are estranged from that with which they have most constant intercourse

Those who are asleep are fellow-workers (in what goes on in the world)

It is pleasure to souls to become moist.

The lord whose is the oracle at Delphoi neither utters nor hides his meaning, but shows it by a sign

The sun will not overstep his measures; if he does, the Erinyes, the handmaids of Justice, will find him out

It is best to hide folly; but it is hard in times of relaxation, over our cups.

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right

Cold things become warm, and what is warm cools; what is wet dries, and the parched is moistened.

make ugly art. NOWWWW

there's someone on Wikipedia who writes articles about Cantonese opera but constantly names paragraphs after generic figures of speech. For example, they titled a paragraph about the economic threats facing the opera as "All for Naught."

Here's an example from the article on the actor Yam Kim-fai (who is really good, btw):

I wonder if this is translated from Cantonese... maybe the original sounded very poetic

I'm the Daijou-Daijin of cringe