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Notes From A Rooom
http://notesfromaroom.com
literature, poetry, criticism, quotes
- Added on: Oct 31st, 2007
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Peter
- Listed in: Fiction
- Tags: religion poetry fiction literature philosophy prose
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Tarkovsky and Bergman
A. ‘The pressure Rublev is subject to is not an exception. An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn’t exist, for the artist doesn’t live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists beca...
The yoga of despair
This mastery of our innermost movements, which in the long run we can acquire, is well known: it is yoga. But yoga is given in the form of coarse recipes, embellished with pedantism and with bizarre statements. And yoga, practiced for its own sake, a...
The cleaning lady
As she rubbed the furniture to make it shine, she upbraided me, telling me that the life I led was unhealthy. She had remarked that I had a tendency to drink a little too much, it was bad for the health. Very bad, for a man at the height of his power...
Philosophical talent
If only he had some philosophical talent, X tells me. Then he might be able to explain his feelings, then he might not need to talk to me. If only you’d answer, he says. How am I supposed to get any philosophical talent if you don’t answer my que...
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‘I talk to push my self out on the low tide of my words; to leave an emptiness for you to fill.’ ...
This is goodbye
X tells me he doesn’t want to be or think anything anymore. He doesn’t want to submit to anything, let alone me. What’s the point of thinking, he says, since we don’t even comprehend the basis of our thought, since our words mean nothing? Bet...
Very pleasant repository of texts that tickle one's brain --- some original, many from authors of the past.
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