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Francis Bacon: “the roads to human power and to human knowledge lie close together”

 Orts, Quotes
Nov 202010
 

Although the roads to human power and to human knowledge lie close together, and are nearly the same, nevertheless on account of the pernicious and inveterate habit of dwelling on abstractions, it is safer to begin and raise the sciences from those foundations which have relation to practice, and to let the active part itself be as the seal which prints and determines the contemplative counterpart.

Novum Organum, bk ii, aph iv (1620) in: The Works of Francis Bacon vol. 1, p. 169 (Spedding ed. 1877)

Agathias -A Kiss Within The Cup

 Poems
Nov 202010
 

I am not a wine drinker.
But if you want me drunk,
Taste it first, bring it to me
And I will drink it.
For if you touch it with your lips,
It will not be easy to keep sober
Or escape the sweet cup-bearer,
For the cup ferries over a kiss from you
And tells me of the grace it had.

A TK rewriting from the Gutenberg version of Select Epigrams from the Greek by Machail

Fernando Pessoa from the Book of Disquiet, 417

 Orts
Nov 202010
 

I know no pleasure like that of books, and I read very little. Books are introductions to dreams, and no introductions are necessary for one who freely and naturally enters into conversation with them. I’ve never been able to lose myself in a book; as I’m reading, the commentary of my intellect or imagination has always hindered the narrative flow. After a few minutes it’s I who am writing, and what I write is nowhere to be found.

The Sandman Books: The Collected Tales of Morpheus

 Book Notes
Nov 202010
 

These are the trade paper editions of the complete Sandman by Neil Gaiman:

  1. Preludes and Nocturnes (issues 1-7)
  2. A Doll’s House (issues 8-16)
  3. Dream Country (issues 17-20)
  4. Season of Mists (issues 21-28)
  5. Fables and Reflections (issues 29-31, 38-40, 50)
  6. A Game of You (issues 32-27)
  7. Brief Lives (issues 41-49)
  8. World’s End (issues 51-56)
  9. The Kindly Ones (issues 57-69)
  10. The Wake (issues 70-75)

Other related Morpheus titles:

  • The Dream Hunters.
  • Death: The High Cost of Living.
  • Death: The Time of Your Life.
  • Sandman: Book of Dreams.
  • The Sandman: Endless Nights.
  • Dustcovers: The Collected Sandman Covers, 1989-1996.

See: Neilgaiman.com

sparagmos & omophagia

 Orts, Words  Tagged with: , , ,
Nov 202010
 

In the Cult of Dionysios, after all the ecstatic dancing was concluded, the dancers finished off with an equally ecstatic frenzy of tearing apart and eating the raw flesh of a goat, small deer or other similar animal. Sparagmos is the ritual dismemberment or tearing apart of an animal, whereas omophagia is the act of eating raw flesh. This was a communion ceremony where the worshiper took in the raw nature of Dionysios. These rites were practiced up to the 5th century and well into Roman times.