January 2012
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you are..
You are the slur against my obsidian detritus
You are an immigrant mitigated to a snaking purlieu
You are the Mersenne Prime beyond my Euclid
You are the iyari beyond my Moirai
You are the caveat before my fatwa
You are the absinthe beyond my phantasm
You are the annexure beyond the Aztecs
You are the peregrine before my acidic Akhetaten
You are the dinero before my dearth
You are the corona...
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the heresy files : how inquisition ignited the... →
“But consider what an inquisition – any inquisition – really is: a set of disciplinary procedures targeting specific groups, codified in law, organised systematically, enforced by surveillance, exemplified by severity, sustained over time, backed by institutional power and justified by a vision of the one true path. Considered that way, the Inquisition is more accurately seen not as a relic...
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Where?
At night in the crumbling rockmass.
In trouble’s rubble and scree,
in slowest tumult,
the wisdom-pit named Never.
Water needles
stitch up the split
shadow – it fights its way
deeper down,
free
By Paul Celan
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Salome
I scissor the stem of the red carnation
and set it in a bowl of water.
It floats the way your head would,
if I cut it off.
But what if I tore you apart
for those afternoons
when I was fifteen
and so like a bird of paradise
slaughtered for its feathers.
Even my name suggested wings,
wicker cages, flight.
Come, sit on my lap, you said.
I felt as if I had flown there;
I was...
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kurt vonnegut : born into prosperity, raised in... →
Vonnegut had been trying to shape the material that became Slaughterhouse-Five for twenty years. Rare for writers—rare for anybody—this most formative experience may have befallen him not as a child, but in young manhood. As a World War II POW, he had narrowly escaped the Allied firebombing of Dresden in an underground slaughterhouse. He emerged the next morning to find the whole city transformed...
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the other vitruvian man →
This was more than a geometrical statement. Ancient thinkers had long invested the circle and the square with symbolic powers. The circle represented the cosmic and the divine; the square, the earthly and the secular. Anyone proposing that a man could be made to fit inside both shapes was making a metaphysical proposition: The human body wasn’t just designed according to the principles that...
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the method to monarch programming →
“2. BETA -This is a combination of Alpha ; “logic” programming and Beta primordial (primitive mind) sex programming. This programming eliminates learned moral convictions and stimulates the primitive sexual instincts devoid of inhibitions. This training Program (usually for women) is for developing the “ultimate prostitute”…a sex machine. This is the most...
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12 [ hard learned ] lessons for evolutionary... →
“The current overemphasis on mating-related phenomena in evolutionary psychology probably reflects a tendency to begin with the easy topics”
XD
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a complete list of unsolved cryptograms and... →
“ A circular clay tablet about six inches across, discovered in Crete in the early 1900s, and believed to date back to 1800 BC. With an “alphabet” of 45 different symbols, 241 signs are stamped into both sides in spiral patterns. There has been much speculation about its meaning, with wildly variant claimed solutions so far. It’s also been suggested that the disk might turn...
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portrait parle →
“it deserves repeating that Bertillon never dealt with crime scene latent ear impressions, developed in the manner latent fingerprints are made visible, and their measurement, photography, preservation, or uniqueness. In fact, Bertillon’s anthropometry did not deal with crime scene traces at all. It was strictly a system whereby, supposedly, the identity of a person recently arrested...
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we too
went on drinking, soul-crossed, two daggers,
sewn onto heavenstones, wornblood-born
in the night bed
by paul celan
An end to the granting of names, over you I cast...
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psycholinguistically glossolalia →
in the footsteps of giants →
on to the next one.
this one has been done.
letters of joseph roth →
gluttony goes viral →
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psychoanalysing the "other" freud →
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the interior minefield of mens rea
Keep on as much as you like. Trust in the murmur’s inexhaustibility.
- Andre Breton
In jazz every musician, despite the instrument, needs to think like a drummer. Years later, I have come to believe that in investigative psychology every profiler needs to think like a sniper. The mezzo aphorism stands somewhat undefeated in the prevalent zeitgeist of criminal profiling. The inexact...
i want to live close to you →
LOVE Jacob Felländer
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all the members of my tribe are liars
That’s why the missionary, on his guard,
Is wondering why the cannibal’s so merry,
And why it is so very very hard
To be a missionary.
- John Fuller
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A Dialogue between Caliban and Ariel
Ar. Now you have been taught words and I am free,
My pine struck open, your thick tongue untied,
And bells call out the music of the sea.
From this advantage I can clearly see
You will abuse me in your grovelling pride
Now you have been taught words: and I am free
To pinch and bully you eternally,
Swish round the island while the mermaids...
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the island of lampedusa →
everyone is an immigrant.
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poete maudit et dieu →
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freud un-engineered →
“Now that all is silent within me, will I, who have hardly known how to talk to myself, still be able to speak? I almost cannot hear myself any more. On this ‘almost’ I shall rest my words or, rather, what stub- bornly still wants to be words—though they be deaf ...
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On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d’abord et longtemps, tout rivage.
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
- Gide
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… the true writer, as we see him, is the thrall of his time, its serf and bondsman, its lower slave. He is fettered it on a short, unbreakable chain, shackled to it as tight as can be. His lack of freedom must be so great that he could not be transplanted anywhere else. In fact, if it did not sound ludicrous, I would simply say: he is the dog of his time.
Elias Canetti, The Conscience of...
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valiant en abyme
Our grand peregrinations through these temporary cities,
These pale window box poppies of the laughing class,
Drifting as if time came in the same long dollops as starlight,
Resemble an epic journey as a coffee bean resembles a llama’s foot,
Though the kitchen table may be far from the desert
It’s near in spirit, a yellow oasis before the wind
Starts its restless sweeping of white flower-dust...
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Ceriserie
Music: Sexual misery is wearing you out.
Music: Known as the Philosopher’s Stair for the world-weariness which climbing it inspires. One gets nowhere with it.
Paris: St-Sulpice in shrouds.
Paris: You’re falling into disrepair, Eiffel Tower this means you! Swathed in gold paint, Enguerrand Quarton whispering come with me under the shadow of this gold leaf.
Music: The unless of a certain...
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"Words are inside breath, as the earth is inside...
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Mark the first page of the book with a red marker. For, in the beginning, the wound is invisible. - Reb Alcé
“What is going on behind this door?”
“A book is shedding its leaves.”
at the threshold of a book - edmond jabes
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This is what they say
Some things can’t be undone. A peeled orange. A quartered pig. Time. Words. Sometimes we open our mouths and our fathers and mothers crawl up from out of our throats. They grasp at our teeth and lips and pull themselves up like babies from a birth canal, peaking their heads out, roaring like hungry little bears, their gasoline voices wrapped in barbed wire, lit matches in...
