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Angela Patten - Linguistic Anthropology

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The Goddess on her throne of clouds, 2025

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“ orgasm is the only point where your mind becomes completely empty—you think of nothing for that second. That's why it's so compelling—it's a tiny taste of death. Your mind is void—you have nothing in your head save white light. ”

- Jeff Buckley

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In my ancient books I read about Bodhisattva who said: "All living beings who discipline themselves in listening to Silence shall hear Heaven," (the blessedness that penetrates through appearances), "shall attain the unattainable, shall enter the doorless, shall cross the river on the ferry and reach the other shore? and (no river, no ferry, no other shore) I see that I have erached the other shore because it no longer matters to me about "happiness in this or any other world, "crossing the shore" has simply been the recognition that there's nothing to yearn after, nothing to think, my Essence of Mind, the universal One Sea of mysterious mentality, the unrecognizable recognition which blots out (as snow blots out the blottable pitiful shapeliness of ogroid earth —

"The best lack all conviction," says Yeats, because as the ancient Chinese say: "He who knows does not speak."

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La Collectionneuse (1967) dir. Éric Rohmer

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Composition #9

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On the road, March 2024

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San Francisco after sunset

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Yayoi Kusama - Infinity Dots, TWXZP, 2003, acrylic on canvas, 45.8 x 53.1 cm

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Spoon - Hot Thoughts