February 2011
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“odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris?
nescio, sed fieri sentio et...”
– Catullus, Carmen 85 (via locaantiqua)
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The Suicide Note →
This is a 1,905 page suicide note written by a man who took his own life on Harvard’s campus. I’ve been reading it for a while and it’s a really interesting piece. It argues for the liberation of death and the equality of living and dying. Parts of it mirror Stoic philosophy, others nihilism, and others biology. I suggest you give it a look.
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"Forget Mandarin; Latin Is The Key To Success," by... →
spanishleather:
preach.
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That's Some Emersonian Shit
“Never until now had the human creature even imagined that the mind of man would be capable of creating the means for destroying the human race. And only visionaries ever foresaw that man would finally extricate himself from the terrestrial conditions out of which he first arose. These achievements- that power of self-destruction and that bursting of earth’s bonds- have simultaneously...
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These Ambiguities!
“These ambiguities, redundancies, and deficiencies recall those attributed by Dr. Franz Kuhn to a certain Chinese encyclopedia called the Heavenly Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge. In its distant pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the emperor; (b) embalmed ones; (c) those that are trained; (d) suckling pigs; (e) mermaids; (f) fabulous ones; (g) stray...
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