Free Associations from Thursday, 19 June, 2008
“A White Stone Day”
albo lapillo notare diem – in Latin
I recall this phrase distinctly from the personal diary of Charles Dodgson a.k.a. Lewis Carroll. He wrote it plainly in his journal the very day he met young Alice Liddell and took a photograph [the first] of her and her [...]
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A White Stone Day : : for Robert : : from H.
Posted in l o v e on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
eroticism of interpretation
Posted in Uncategorized on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
flower of darkness by nobuyoshi araki
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text by anna kingsford:
Behold the FIG-TREE, and learn her parable. When the branch thereof shall become tender, and her buds appear, know that the day of God is upon you.
The fig is the similitude of the matrix, containing inward buds, bearing blossoms on its placenta, and bringing forth fruit [...]
:::: augustine ::: from robert :::
Posted in l o v e, tagged from robert. on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Augustine’s On Christian Doctrine I,iv,4:
I am translating jouissance by ‘enjoying’ .
” To enjoy (jouir) is to cling to it (the thing) with love for its own
sake. To use something, however, is to employ it in obtaining
that which you love, provided that it is worthy of love”
“It is to be asked whether man is to be loved by [...]
where am i
Posted in NOTEBOOKS, tagged from black notebook with cord : sometime in 2008 on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
among other things that grew out of your speaking of clock time and the field of jouissance, is the memory of a suffering poet, who, through the experience of non-time, came to know {further on in this same text} that l o v e was his only truth…
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from de profundis – oscar wilde
Suffering [...]
love & red skies
Posted in Uncategorized on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Like a red morn that ever yet betokened, Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field, Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds, Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds.”
- shakespeare in v e n u s & adonis
