November 2009
37 posts
“There was no other sound. The garden was empty. He had come, thought Honda, to a...”
– Yukio Mishima, Decay of an Angel
“As Tolkien (1939) described the lure of fantasy worlds, “Why should a man...”
– Edward Castronova, Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games
Darling, Darling, I deconstructed you. One piece of clothing, then two.
Thus curves of life compose, or de-
“No one can have two masters”
– The one who looked upon his people and wept
What light through yonder window breaks, impervious to my greed, and lightens all these earthly aches, with heavenly succor and feed.
“IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects...”
– Mayflower compact
“This is the spirit of Abel who was slain by Cain his brother; and who will...”
– 1 Enoch
“E’en thou went’st forth in poverty and hunger
To set the goodly...”
– Dante
“The poet is truly deprived of his wits”
– Goethe
Mad as a hat only, half, seeing triple, I marry her and place upon my head, double twined. Snap. I return to pure reason. Blink blink. The screen flickers. Scenes of impending death. So many pawns on the chessboard of the gods. Now with special FX. To sleep.
“When grievous maladies and afflictions have beset certain families by reason of...”
– Plato, Phaedrus
“子曰、君子謀道不謀食、耕也、餒在其中矣、學也、祿在其中矣、
君子憂道、不憂貧。”
“Whoever begins to read The Decline of the West is at once struck by the naive...”
– Huizinga
Best Tea Vendors
Or rather, recommended vendors. Mostly gathered from rec.food.drink.tea. Special thanks to Dominic. Might also be considered a list of the best green, wulong or Japanese tea vendors.
Imperial Tea Court Tea Spring Rishi Seven Cups Jing Tea Shop Hou De Asian Art Tea Masters Adagio Yunnan Sourcing
Japanese
O-Cha Matcha and More Lupicia Ryu-mei Ippodo-tea Yuuki-cha Hibiki-an
Others?
Deeper, deeper, is the breaking, insane wave of which dreams and myths are made. There the starlight’s sober voyage, and I often with it. Alone in the fog.
Before the belief, the dance, before the word, the song, Before our hearts, the image and the pain, of letting go, and embracing
“‘The Dionysian man resembles Hamlet; both have once looked truly into the...”
– Nietzsche
“The largest mistake we can make about the play, Hamlet, is to think that it is...”
– Harold Bloom
Thanksgiving 2004
The tree is left barren the last leaf is gone And I have watched them all fall one by one Dancing as they fell lighting upon the still green grass soon swept away the tree alone to mourn Today the first dusting of snow first falling mixed with rain Covering still green grass lighting upon the barren tree I am too comfortable. Basting, in artificial heat sitting, behind faded windows watching the...
“There is among the passions an anger of the intellect, and this anger is in...”
– Isaiah the Solitary, Philokalia
“At present they think that their serious pursuits should
be for the sake of...”
– Athenian, in Plato’s Laws
The end of history begins today, comes to this, I should have known, not dallied among the buttercups, the bleary-eyed, virgin, tomb, thus fly the sparks, on anvil dragon’s breath, and sing the niebelung, of many storied death.
Maelstrom
Cavorting, dancing here we sing, of sweeping sorrows, of forgotten-wounded king, of heroes old, of long lost tales, of village craft, our thatch and weave, and wainscot art, with care, with love, conceived. No longer singing songs, no folk in central place So piled care becomes this haggard race, thus descends to dust, as it was in the beginning, Can Lethe’s flows, by woman-man, be stemmed?...
‘Orthodox’ itself a polyglot, Worshiper of two words, concepts, pasted together in the first democracy, under the shadow of the great emperor, attending the death of the gods. Your idle assumption thrills, combination, a new polytheism based not on image, but speech.
So tends man, forever a worshiper of that he understands.
“When it comes, as it soon will, to defending our University and the freedom of...”
– Johan Huizinga
“Ich finde in der christlichen Religion
virtualiter die Anlage zu dem höchsten...”
– Schiller
Drunk on death, cavalcades and parades, Thunder, laughter; caresses, smoke, Death in turn defies you, still we dance, under the burning sun, through the acid rain Pure, untouched, unstained, though we weep, though we our praises keep, and touch, the last glimpse of some heavenly sonnet, last trickle of steel rain, then submerge under god’s scorch’ed earth into the tombs. So songs were...
I want to show you the other types of extensions. I’m going to show you my favorite one we built, which is a robot that’s on all your Waves that does spellchecking for you. Can you guys see what I’m typing here? This is my “favorite been soup” demo. “Can I have some…” it’s hard to spell wrong in the right way. “It has bean so...
Death how I love thee, cries the maiden. Death I embrace thee, calls the knight. Death I forget thee, calls the knave. Death I deny thee, calls the saint.
French tutorial. Mandarin exchange, hopefully to include Book of Odes memorization. Switching from gladiators to prehistory in research and attempting, in my smaller project, a comparison between Chakravartin and Melchizedek traditions. An occasional date. A pipe. A wish that I had a tweed jacket to wear.
Israelis defeated Egyptians twice in the Avalon hill game last night, although I was the...
“What is coming over our southern border is far more important to America’s...”
– Bill Lind