tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88611972024-03-18T19:53:00.038+01:00The Pangrammaticonall the usage in the worldThomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comBlogger1877125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-71509071951560182562024-03-05T07:31:00.001+01:002024-03-05T13:30:30.767+01:00<p>The academic takes a pecuniary interest in peculiar ideas, makes a university of the universal, a corporation of the corpus.</p>Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-68477070233465109392024-03-02T21:05:00.003+01:002024-03-02T21:15:05.060+01:00<p>You must believe in the colour of spring. I.e., "happiness is easy" and "suicide is painless".</p>Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-60796611116087972432024-02-25T21:37:00.003+01:002024-02-25T21:37:42.795+01:00<p>Don't let your balls write checks your brain can't cash.</p>Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-41117321867893917422024-02-11T21:44:00.001+01:002024-02-11T21:44:08.202+01:00<p>It is the task of political journalists to help politicians pretend that they have power. Likewise, it is the taks science journalists to help scientists...</p>Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-43989890964609110802024-02-06T22:49:00.003+01:002024-02-07T06:26:19.923+01:00<p>Those who have a purpose in life<br>
may fail to see it in anyone else.</p>
<p>Those who have lost their purpose<br>
can find one in everything they do.</p>Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-29804294501679680612024-01-29T17:04:00.002+01:002024-01-29T17:04:35.018+01:00<p>If it is love we lack<br>
we can make it.</p>
<p>If it is wisdom<br>
we're fucked.</p>Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-90487735592804415282024-01-24T07:49:00.003+01:002024-01-24T07:49:38.335+01:00Language, Justice, and Music<p>"Must [the metaphysician] not begin," asks Ayer, "as other men do, with the evidence of his senses? And if so, what valid process of reasoning can possibly lead him to the conception of a transcendental reality?"</p>
<p>Must he?</p>
<p>Could one not begin with the facility* of our motions, even the perfection* of our motives? And if so, could we not be driven through brilliant moments of passion to an enthusiasm for an immanent ideality?</p>
<p>To be sure, that may not quite amount to a "metaphysics". But why always begin where philosophers would have us, here. Why always Dasein, not duende. Why not listen to the muses? Surely, they are not all sirens. And surely our senses, too, sometimes deceive.</p>
<p><a href="https://pangrammaticon.blogspot.com/2018/02/from-tracatus-pathetico-poeticus.html">Whereof we cannot sing, thereof we must dance.</a></p>
<p>______</p>
<p>*The root of evidence is to "see fully", obvious, the root of perfection, to be completely done, finished. Facility is a "lightness" or "genteleness" in action, "ease", "fluency".</p>Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-72463152798144958592024-01-23T16:54:00.001+01:002024-01-23T16:54:08.669+01:00<p>What is truly known can be stated clearly.</p>
<p>Who is justly mastered can be commanded intensely.</p>
<p>What cannot be known of others must be mastered in yourself.</p>
<p>By what you cannot master in yourself,</p><p align="right">you will be known to others.</p>Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-1192796348365537772024-01-18T17:38:00.005+01:002024-01-18T17:38:51.928+01:00<p>In the world, many distasteful things are known to occur.</p>
<p>Throughout history, many delicate souls have been mastered.</p>Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-74653282456954314302024-01-06T10:44:00.001+01:002024-01-06T10:44:29.380+01:00<p>"Philosophy is disclosure of being, and being's <i>essence</i> is truth and philosophy. Being's essence is the temporalization of time, the diastasis of the identical and its recapture or reminiscence, the unity of apperception." (Levinas, <i>Otherwise Than Being</i>, II.2., p. 29)</p>
<p>Poetry wills the unleashing of becoming, and becoming's <i>emergence</i> wills justice and poetry. Becoming's emergence wills the spacialization of space, the confluence of difference and its forgiveness or forgetting, the multiplicity of agitation.</p>Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-72065414507212157072023-12-22T13:07:00.003+01:002023-12-22T13:07:40.348+01:00<p>Everything in the world resists ending up in a book.<br>
Writing is the texture of their resistance.</p>Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-69000193027138081732023-12-02T21:21:00.001+01:002023-12-02T21:21:07.816+01:00<p>Whenever I have an idea<br>
reality puts me in my place.</p>
<p>Wherever it gets real,<br>
ideally, I'll have a moment.</p>Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-79790512550443030012023-12-02T19:58:00.001+01:002024-01-23T19:07:49.171+01:00<p>She believed in balance.</p>
<p>Whenever I found a way to make her life better,<br>
she started looking for ways to destroy mine.</p>Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-51431066501191076402023-11-29T18:34:00.001+01:002023-11-29T18:34:16.216+01:00<p>Where are beings?<br>
In becoming.<br>
When do they come?<br>
Eventually.</p>
<p>What is being?<br>
It is what it is.<br>
Who is coming?<br>
You know who.</p>Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-53293773212527684312023-11-21T22:04:00.003+01:002023-11-21T22:04:43.493+01:00<p>I think fiction may be a scam.</p>Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-69703922568030367962023-11-08T21:22:00.000+01:002023-11-08T21:22:06.167+01:00<p>Philosophy is about what must be true if anything is.</p>
<p>There's nothing like that to poetic justice.</p> Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-80394323611335045862023-10-27T16:35:00.001+02:002023-10-27T16:35:15.094+02:00Act, Fact, Artifact<p>People act; they do things. Facts are things done.</p>
<p>People get together to act. Things brought together are facts.</p>
<p>Things are just lying around. Facts accomplish them.</p>
<p>People make artifacts out of the things they find.</p>Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-14944051192432012272023-10-23T21:21:00.006+02:002023-10-23T21:22:44.903+02:00<p>I am sane and,<br>
also, I am not.</p>Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-72273762803836644142023-10-16T14:21:00.002+02:002023-10-16T14:21:36.754+02:00<p>All facts are themselves. “Each item can be the case or not the case, while everything else remains the same.”</p>
<p>All acts are collective. A deed may be done by one of us, but is condoned or denounced by everyone else.</p>Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-72109811108197679902023-10-07T21:51:00.000+02:002023-10-07T21:51:38.405+02:00<p>"The pain is part of it," she said<br>
and I laughed, because it is<br>
a funny thing to say.<br>
But now I know what she meant.<br>
The sadness in her voice<br>
is a memory, and my tears—<br>
I tell you, the pain is part of it.</p>Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-46845129464424757482023-09-27T00:29:00.000+02:002023-09-27T00:29:06.221+02:00Two Things Can Be True<p>Everyone deserves the love they get.<br>
No one deserves the love they get.</p>Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-52415573228820965572023-09-20T13:49:00.002+02:002023-09-20T13:49:36.150+02:00<p>You can't solve the problem<br>
of being<br>
by becoming<br>
a man<br>
or a woman.</p>
<p>Just be yourself.<br>
That's hard enough.</p>Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-44566999800092999312023-09-11T18:08:00.002+02:002023-09-11T18:08:18.293+02:00<p>Wisdom is non-attachment; i.e.,<br>
love is folly.</p>Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-43938519036930498872023-09-08T17:02:00.001+02:002023-09-08T17:02:44.244+02:00War Economy<p>Just before the first Gulf War in 1990, $5 was worth $11 in today's money. Compounded at 5%, you'd have about $22 today. But if you had invested it in Raytheon stock and sold on the day Putin invaded Ukraine you'd have $100 dollars.</p>Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-11216722868354831562023-08-27T12:46:00.001+02:002023-08-27T12:46:05.162+02:00<p>Decency is the immediate rightness of conduct given one's desires, as honesty is the immediate rightness of conduct given one's beliefs.</p>
<p>Decency does not guarantee justice, nor does honesty guarantee truth. Indeed, the pursuit of truth sometimes requires dishonesty, and the pursuit of justice sometimes requires indecency.</p>
<p>Science is the pursuit of truth, constrained by honesty, not decency.</p>
<p>Politics is the pursuit of justice, constrained by decency, not honesty.</p>
<p>Art is a scandal.</p>Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.com