Henry Miller, often makes for bizarre reading. Black Spring in particular hits me in the gut in a visceral way. Parts of the book are almost tediously full of the piss, snot, cum, and general excretions of everyday human existence. Henry Miller is Tom Waits in print, or more appropriately (giving credit where it is […]
Philosophy
If love is the answer, then what is the question?
“everything fornicates..” – the motto on a COIL T-Shirt. A sad thing about the English language, our language is often inadequate in discussing love. For example, many languages have 2, 3, or more words for love, themselves relating to different aspects, types, or degrees of love. We use “love” to mean everything from fucking (ah, […]
How to be a moron and chump – from my own life, on letting oneself be used..
1. Know your value and stick to it. There is “being nice”, and then there is the fact that, sometimes “being nice” makes you NOT nice to people around you. This is the case, often, at work, at school, with family. (this is particularly the case in matters of love, or rather amor and eros, […]
Aristotle on Limits, and Ibn Arabi chimes in – Fuzzy = bad
Contrary to the opinion of many people, philosophy is a very useful thing. Why? Because it helps sharpen thought, teaching you how to see things in crystal clear categories instead of fuzzy muddied blurs. Many people go through life experiencing life in a very dull way, they think they are in its flow but they […]