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:: Heidegger said spare time is ecstasy ::

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But Cordelia is the quiet absolute; her very silence is the still centre of the turning world.

— Ann Pasternak Slater 🐚

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Except for the point, the still point, there would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

— T. S. Eliot, from Burnt Norton ii, Four Quartets

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… and yes I said yes I will Yes.

Trieste-Zurich-Paris,

1914-1921.

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(my name’s John; England is mine and it owes me a living, etc., 📻)

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jane austen putting the boot in by having charlotte lucas marry mr. collins. we get it jane, the economic basis of society is dire and cruel but you didn’t need to do her so dirty like that

#jane austen #pride and prejudice #n.

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Keep vigil. The tongues flow yet To rhythms of sea and hill. Deeper than stone, guard The pure source, silence.

George Mackay Brown, 'To a Hamnavoe Poet of 2093' (Following a Lark, 1996)

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In the late 1960s, a number of important thinkers in France — Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, and Roland Barthes among them — began to investigate what would happen to Western thought if the fact that it exists mainly in writing were taken seriously.

— The Norton Anthology: Theory and Criticism, from the entry on Hélène Cixous [2001]

#roland barthes #julia kristeva #derrida

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On longer evenings, Light, chill and yellow, Bathes the serene Foreheads of houses. A thrush sings, Laurel-surrounded In the deep bare garden, Its fresh-peeled voice Astonishing the brickwork. It will be spring soon, It will be spring soon － And I, whose childhood Is a forgotten boredom, Feel like a child Who comes on a scene Of adult reconciling, And can understand nothing But the unusual laughter, And starts to be happy.

Coming, by Philip Larkin

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