Category: Whatever
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Quote: Style and the linguistic bases of Roman rhetorical devices
Originally posted on Wetwiring: I decided recently to brush up on my Latin (it has been a damp week in Ireland so far), and so dug out old grammars, dictionaries, and anthologies. I turned to Cicero (kik-er-oh I keep reminding myself), as the flavour of some of the orations seemed…
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The Legacy of Franz Kafka As Seen Through His Impact on Gabriel García Márquez | Memoir | Biographile
The influence of Kafka, born 130 years ago this week (July 3, 1883) in Prague, is great among twentieth-century writers from Albert Camus to Jorge Luis Borges — the term Kafkaesque has even entered the vernacular as a way to describe events so bizarre they seem surreal — but the…
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If we can refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious attention to actively doing good.
Originally posted on philosiblog: If we can refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious attention to actively doing good. – Dalai Lama How do you un-say something they overheard? If you wouldn’t say it to their face, should you say it at…
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58. Dave
Originally posted on 23thorns: The Japanese are sending a man into space. There’s nothing unusual about this; he’s just going up to man the international space station for a while. What is unusual is that they are sending a robot up with him. This is Kirobo. Now also available from…
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midnight epiphany
Originally posted on ∙ tenderheartmusings ∙: walking the path beneath incandescent moonlight as we share similar madness, clarity pours from another realm the words that make us ceaselessly fill the space between us bathed in the light emanating from our beings, absorbed in the thoughts mirroring our essence, we ascend I pause briefly in…
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Fantasia for Baroque Lute – Akira Ifukabe
Please enjoy listening to this beautiful piece that my good brother Dusan B. left sitting around on his Facebook page. Below the embedded video is some info about Ifukabe-san. Enjoy! …Akira Ifukube was born on May 31, 1914 in Kushiro on the Japanese island of Hokkaidō, the third son of a Shinto priest. Much of…
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Daodejing 37
#37* The Great Way (DAO): Never doing (WU WEI) but always doing all. If kings can follow this, the 10,000 things will grow and develop spontaneously. During the course of growth and development, whenever arises a desire to do… I will suppress it with the simplicity (Pǔ)† of the Great…
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Pǔ or the uncarved block
Very often, translators render the Chinese word Pǔ into English as “the uncarved block.” The term refers to a state of pure possibility (what the Greeks mean by DYNAMIS). This describes the original condition of the mind before the happening of any experience. In the way that it is utilized most…
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Conversations with a Devotee – Kafka
Conversations with a Devotee by Franz Kafka There was a time when I went every day into a church, since a girl I was in love with knelt there in prayer for half an hour in the evening and I was able to look at her in peace. Once when…
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“Seek out historic …
“Seek out historic distractions–purposeful conspiracy and habitual con-spiring (breathing a common air)–by which those who would claim to hold power try to keep empowered. Power belongs to no person. It already flows from the Way and always returns to the Way. This is the only knowledge that is enduringly powerful.”…
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Power of Art: David
Born to a wealthy Parisian family, Jacques-Louis David was aged seven when his father was shot dead in a pistol duel. Brought up by his uncles, his desire was to paint and he was eventually sent to his mother’s cousin, Francois Boucher, the most successful painter in France at the…
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