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As a consequence, interpretation is indefinite. The attempt to look for a final, unattainable meaning leads to the acceptance of a never-ending drift or sliding of meaning. A plant is not defined in terms of its morphological and functional characteristics but on the basis of its resemblance, albeit only partial, to another element in the cosmos. If it is vaguely like part of the human body, then it has meaning because it refers to the body. But that part of the body has meaning because it refers to a star, and the latter has meaning because it refers to a musical scale, and this in turn because it refers to a hierarchy of angels, and so on ad infinitum.

Interpretation and Overinterpretation. P. 32

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The psychology of high-rise life had been exposed with damning results. The absence of humour, for example, had always struck Wilder as the single most significant feature-all research by investigators confirmed that the tenants of high-rises made no jokes about them. In a strict sense, life there was "eventless". On the basis of his own experience, Wilder was convinced that the high-rise apartment was an insufficiently flexible shell to provide the kind of home which encouraged activities, as distinct from somewhere to eat and sleep. Living in high-rises required a special type of behaviour, one that was acquiescent, restrained, even perhaps slightly mad. A psychotic would have a ball here, Wilder reflected. Vandalism had plagued these slab and tower blocks since their inception. Every torn-out piece of telephone equipment, every handle wrenched off a fire safety door, every kicked-in electricity meter represented a stand against de-cerebration.

What angered Wilder most of all about life in the apartment building was the way in which an apparently homogeneous collection of high-income professional people had split into three distinct and hostile camps. The old social sub-divisions, based on power, capital and self-interest, had re-asserted themselves here as anywhere else.

In effect, the high-rise had already divided itself into the three classical social groups, its lower, middle and upper classes. The 10th-floor shopping mall formed a clear boundary between the lower nine floors, with their "proletariat" of film technicians, air-hostesses and the like, and the middle section of the high-rise, which extended from the 10th floor to the swimming-pool and restaurant deck on the 35th. This central two-thirds of the apartment building formed its middle class, made up of self-centred but basically docile members of the professions-the doctors and lawyers, accountants and tax specialists who worked, not for themselves, but for medical institutes and large corporations. Puritan and self-disciplined, they had all the cohesion of those eager to settle for second best.

Above them, on the top five floors of the high-rise, was its upper class, the discreet oligarchy of minor tycoons and entrepreneurs, television actresses and careerist academics, with their high-speed elevators and superior services, their carpeted staircases. It was they who set the pace of the building. It was their complaints which were acted upon first, and it was they who subtly dominated life within the high-rise, deciding when the children could use the swimming-pools and roof garden, the menus in the restaurant and the high charges that kept out almost everyone but themselves. Above all, it was their subtle patronage that kept the middle ranks in line, this constantly dangling carrot of friendship and approval. (High Rise. P. 66)

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The Shining menjadi horor terbaik yang masih bisa saya cerna. Konon, Kubrick memanipulasi set interior hotel untuk menghasilkan disorientasi visual terhadap penontonnya. Hal ini yang lantas menerbitkan perasaan mencekam dan nyasar karena kegagalan kita dalam beradaptasi pada konfigurasi spasial Overlook Hotel. 

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For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also

Bildad

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that artwork tho

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There's no time to be sad, there's only act to be done

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Ada orang yang suka menjual pengetahuan secara sachetan. Selain biaya produksinya murah meriah, siapapun mampu mencernanya dengan mudah. Dibungkus dengan kemasan yang menarik dan kandungan gula sakarin yang tinggi. Dijual eceran di pinggir jalan, kadang-kadang muncul dengan merek dagang tertentu toko pakaian terkemuka. Orang-orang mengantri untuk membelinya, lalu menyesapnya sambil memejamkan mata dan berkata: enak toh ya berwawasan.

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Studio

Pada setiap meja kita dapat melihat cuplikan mimpi yang tercecer dari setiap manusia di depannya. Apa-apa yang mereka bawa adalah sebuah bakal dan benih yang tertinggal di atas kasur. Tidak heran jika ada yang membawa celana dalam atau puntung rokok, sementara yang lain menggotong lembu dan bendera. Mereka menyusunnya baik-baik di atas meja, dengan kerapatan tertentu baik untuk kemudahan jangkauan atau sekedar pameran. Lalu, mereka akan berbisik lewat pensil dan perekat, laksana pria tua yang pernah melahirkan cahaya, mendengus dan berkata: hadirlah

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Perut

Anuman pernah bercerita pada saya bahwa ia kelimpungan saat ditelan oleh raksasa. Disana (dalam perut raksasa) ia melihat hamparan lumut yang menyerupai padang rumput dan langit remang yang merupa senja akibat pantulan dari air perut rahwana yang berwarna kelabu. Bagi anuman perut raksasa sangatlah besar. Hal ini saya rasa lucu karena anuman kecil pernah mencoba menelan matahari sebelum dihentikan oleh batara surya. Sepertinya, menjelang dewasa anuman mulai mengenali perspektif tentang dunia, ia menginsyafi bahwa yang kecil tidak berarti nihil dan yang besar bukan berarti akbar. Namun Anuman, yang tengah berada di tengah kebingungan kala mencari alenka, tenggelam pada ilusi ruang yang terjadi di tubuh raksasa. Ia lupa bahwa ke-Esaan yang mewujud dalam perut gendut itu seperti halnya yang dirasakan para hamba di bawah kubah atau umat yang berlutut di bawah kapel. Cahaya yang memasuki tubuh raksasa, -bila ada dan bersifat jarang, mengingatkan harapan yang menerbitkan damai, apalagi dalam ayunan tubuh raksasa yang meletakan cahaya pada riak-riak air. Anuman, bercerita juga pada saya jika ia tidak segera ingat dengan janjinya pada Rama, ia mungkin akan bertinggal disana. Tentu saja, siapa yang tidak rindu pada rasa sentosa ditimang dalam janin ibu? Diantara gulita dan degup jantung yang terasa seperti nyanyian, sebengis apapun raksasa, niscaya dunia beneran lebih gampang dibawa lupa.

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Saya tidak ingin menjadi orang yang tua tanpa berkelahi. kata bapak perkelahian paling kolosal adalah dengan diri sendiri. Gelanggang tiga kali tiga tanpa pemirsa. Ruangnya remang lembab seperti janin ibu. Luka-lebam menoreh dari rasa cemas dan kegagalan yang menampar berulang, mendesis dari waktu ke waktu, mengucurkan bau logam dan tuli pada kata tunggu dulu. Sang juri adalah waktu, kartu merah dan hitungannya timpang kesana, menerbitkan kesan bahwa perkelahian semakin berat. Baik nafas maupun peluh semakin menderas, sementara gelanggang pertarungan menyempit, jengah terasa pergumulan semakin sengit. Hingga nanti, pada suatu titik, pergumulan akan tampak sebagai percumbuan. mana kawan mana lawan. Mana cinta mana nista. Lalu tiba-tiba yang satu menyalak menuntut berhenti, dan saat itu, kupastikan mulutku yang rapat terkunci.

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“Mati kau dibekap galau” 

- Irwin

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George Orwell-Why I Write

http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/whywrite.html

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Ya

You may have felt the urge to shut down your computer, shed your clothes, and walk naked into the woods, but you don’t do it. With differing motivations, many people have famously exited society to be alone: Ted Kaczynski, Henry David Thoreau, Christopher McCandless to name a few. As with these three, most don’t go so far as to shed all remnants of the tools and trappings of modern living. You may decide one day to throw middle fingers at the material world and head into the wild, but you’ll probably keep your shoes on and take a pocket knife at the very least. Just in case of, you know, bears. It’s a compelling idea nonetheless – leaving society with no company. You enjoy watching shows like Survivorman and Man vs. Wild. You revisit tales like Castaway and Robinson Crusoe and Life of Pi. It’s in our shared experience, a curiosity and a fear, the idea of total expulsion from the rest of your kin.

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2012/04/17/ego-depletion/

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"Iyalah, pertarungan" Bukan pertaruhan Nah.