qoutes from the book of dead philosophers, simon critchley:

sexuality is part of our behaviour. It's part of our world freedom. Sexuality is something that we ourselves create. it is our own creation, and much more than the dsicovery of a secret side of our desire. We have to understand that with our desires go new forms of realtionships, new forms of love, new forms of creation. Sex is not a fatlity, it's a possibility for creative life...

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"The feeling of being attacked as a reactionary at least has a suprising note"
adorno to beckett.

We learn what it is to anticpate our own deaths from those others whose anticipations of their deaths we have in some significant way shared.
alasidair reynolds on edith stein

Gryogry Luckacs was not a great admirer of the work of Franz Kafka, whome he declared to be 'idealist' and a bad example of decadent aesthetic modernism. Lukacs advocated an aesthetic realism that rejected the Kafkaesque world of Angst and allienation where isolated individuals were arrsted for unkwon crime,s submitted to absurd trials and condenmed without reason. After the Societ tanks moved into Budapest to crush the Hungarian uprising...Lukacks was arrested in the middle of the night and thwon into a miliary lorry along wiht other givernment officals. The lorry that disapparered into the obscurity of the countryside for an unkonw but proably unsavoury fate. Lukacs was taken to a vast castle in TRanslvania and was told whether he was going ot be freed to prrmantley detained. So the story goes, Lukacs turned to one of the detainnd ministers and said, 'So, Kafka was a realist after all

We begin in the madness of carnal desire and the transport of volputousness, we end in the dissoulation of all our parts and the musty stench of corpses. Schopenhauer.

By understanding many things, I have accomplished nothing.
Groot

I suffer great disaster because I have a body. When I have no body; what disaster can their be. Lao Tzu.