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Showing posts with label thus spoke zarathustra. Show all posts
7 Sept 2025

Once Upon a Time ... There Was a Philosopher Named Friedrich Nietzsche and He Privileged a Pissing Giant Over Clever Dwarves

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Nietzsche with Snow White, dwarves, and other fairy tale characters  in a whimsical, enchanted forest with a gingerbread house craiyon.com  ...
12 Aug 2025

There is a Spider Crawling ...

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  'Without spiders, flies would have no wings ...'     Hazlitt's essay opens with a lovely passage about a spider crawling along...
14 Jul 2025

I Stood Watching the Shadowy Fish ... Notes on the First Line of D. H. Lawrence's 'The White Peacock'

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   I.    The opening line from Lawrence's debut novel, The White Peacock  (1911), reads:    "I stood watching the shadowy fish slid...
1 Jul 2025

Heaven and How to Get There

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Revival Movement Association revivalmovement.org       I.    One of the ironic consequences of mass migration from sub-Saharan Africa is tha...
26 Mar 2025

Joy is Deeper Than the Heart's Agony: On Nietzsche and the Concept of Confelicity

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A young Nietzsche looking joyful in 1869 Image via The Mindless Philosopher     "The lowest animal can imagine the pain of others.  But...
5 Mar 2025

On the Loving of Enemies

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Liebe deine Feinde,  denn sie bringen das Beste in dir zum Vorschein ...     I.    As we all know, Jesus famously taught we should love our ...
13 Feb 2025

In Praise of Skipping

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Vivienne Westood photographed by Michael Roberts  for Vogue (August 1987) [1]     The other day, walking in a westerly direction along Picc...
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29 Jun 2024

Meine Rosen

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Meine Rosen (SA / 2024)     I.    As is well known, Zarathustra often speaks cryptically.   Take the following sentence, for example, spoke...
18 Dec 2023

Is it True That When You Leave the Haunted Forest You Discover the Blue of the Greater Day?

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  Intoxication (SA/2023)   Is it true that when you leave the haunted forest you discover the blue of the greater day? Not quite.    What y...
9 Dec 2023

Thoughts Inspired by Ben Woodard's 'On an Ungrounded Earth' (2013)

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Punctum Books (2013)     I.   When I hear the term geophilosophy my first thought is not to Deleuze and Guattari's work, but, rather, b...
25 Feb 2022

I'm All Ears: Notes on the Strange Case of Momo and the Art of Listening

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Momo bronze sculpture by Ulrike Enders (2007) Photo: ChristianSchd (2014)   I.  As many readers will know, Michael Ende - son of the German...
16 Jan 2022

Richard Lovatt Somers: Notes Towards a Character Study (Part 2)

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  Garry Shead: Flaming Kangaroo (1992)  From the D. H. Lawrence Series   etchinghouse.com.au     I.    So, as we have seen in part one of ...