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YouTube - &You dont exist&: 6:44pm 1 review video, therapy, ptsd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY_kL7bEM0c

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/Lord_Dundreary.jpg: 1:07am 2 reviews
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/Lord_Dundreary.jpg; This picture contains a Dundreary.

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Articles, Poetry, and Art by the Monks: 12:19am 1 review christianity
http://www.ldysinger.com/; "Say that wisdom is your sister;
and gain prudence for your acquaintance."

Evagrius, Scholia on Proverbs, 88, 7, 4.

&Apology of Genius&: May 12, 10:12pm 1 review poetry, ewig-weibliche
http://www.case.edu/artsci/engl/VSALM/mod/wolkowski/poem.html; Ostracized as we are with God
The watchers of the civilized wastes
reverse their signals on our track

Lepers of the moon
all magically diseased
we come among you
innocent
of our luminous sores

unknowing
how perturbing lights
our spirit
on the passion of Man
until you turn on us your smooth fools' faces
like buttocks bared in aboriginal mockeries

We are the sacerdotal clowns
who feed upon the wind and stars
and pulverous pastures of poverty

Our wills are formed
by curious disciplines
beyond your laws

You may give birth to us
or marry us
the chances of your flesh
are not our destiny ---

The cuirass of the soul
still shines ---
And we are unaware
if you confuse
such brief
corrosion with possession

In the raw caverns of the Increate
we forge the dusk of Chaos
to that imperious jewellery of the Universe
--- the Beautiful ---

While to your eyes
A delicate crop
of criminal mystic immortelles
stands to the censor's scythe.

...more genius

THE BROOKLYN RAIL - BOOKS: May 12, 9:45pm 1 review literature, soulmates
http://www.thebrooklynrail.org/books/june04/cravan.html; *bump*

I would like to be in Vienna and Calcutta,
Catch every train and every boat
Lay every woman and gorge myself on every dish.
Man of fashion, chemist, whore, drunk, musician, labourer, painter, acrobat,
actor;
Old man, child, crook, hooligan, angel and rake; millionaire, bourgeois, cactus,
giraffe, or crow;
Coward, hero, negro, monkey, Don Juan, pimp, lord, peasant, hunter,
industrialist,
Flora and fauna:
I am all things, all men and all animals!
What next?
Assume a distinguished air,
Manage to leave behind perhaps
My fatal plurality!

George S. Patton - Wikiquote: May 12, 7:58pm 1 review military
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_S._Patton; Rommel, you magnificent bastard, I read your book!

It matters to me not whether George S. Patton really said this. Hopefully I say this not out of any thick-headed hagiography for the man, though. He himself was quite a magnificent bastard, and I'm quite sure if he did say this, he was projecting. To me, it is possibly one of the most brilliant quotes in context (real or imagined) of all time. It embodies a personal myth of the power of prose. And poetry, I suppose.

Longfellow said, once you understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy. Conversely-- and I think most literary analysts will agree with me here-- through inferential comprehension of an author's writings we get a certain sense of the bearing of their character (although this soft science's reach is blurred more and more with every passing period and movement, or at least by those who tend towards potentialities). This is perhaps most pressingly (or rather, directly) felt by a military scientist, but I believe it holds true for the idiosyncratic treasures transcribed in any author's output.

One of the most brilliant quotes in and out of context is rended (quite coincidently to this professed unpatriotic pacifist) by another accomplished American military general, John Paul Jones. Indominability, thy name is military quotations.

Seminar XX - No Subject - Encyclopedia of Lacanian Psychoanalysis: May 12, 7:32pm 0 review philosophy
http://nosubject.com/Seminar_XX

The Color of Money : NPR: May 12, 7:08am 1 review economics, podcasts, personal-finance
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4465062; I've got a little crush on Michelle Singletary-- in particular, her voice-- on NPR's Color of Money segments (you can read her syndicated column for the Washington Post here) . This had been developing for a couple of months. I didn't know what she looked like until today, but I love hearing her talk about personal finance as well as her commonsense musings on the economy-- all accompanied by her amazingly good-natured timbre-- then the way she chuckles after every little thing. I think it exposes how modest she is, but it also belies how much she enjoys helping people get their shit in order. There is probably something Oedipal in my reading here (but, when isn't there? Jesus.).

(aside)I need to come up with a system for consolidating my favorite podcasts so that I keep up to date. I learn best by listening. Have some tagging to do...

The Scripture of the Golden Eternity by Jack Kerouac: May 11, 9:23pm 1 review buddhism
http://www.prahlad.org/disciples/scripture_of_the_golden_eternity.htm; 62.

This world has no marks, signs, or evidence of existence, nor the noises in it, like accident of wind or voices or heehawing animals, yet listen closely the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been gong on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it. At night under the moon, or in a quiet room, hush now, the secret music of the Unborn goes on and on, beyond conception, awake beyond existence. Properly speaking, awake is not really awake because the golden eternity never went to sleep; you can tell by the constant sound of Silence which cuts through this world like a magic diamond through the trick of your not realizing that your mind caused the world.