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I sometimes enjoy (in split fashion) thinking about the possibility of a future geography of our self-awareness. I believe that the future historian of his own sensations may be able to make a precise science out of the attitude he takes towards his self-awareness. We’re only in the beginnings of this difficult art—at this point just an art: the chemistry of sensations in its as yet alchemical stage. This scientist of tomorrow will pay special attention to his own inner life, subjecting it to analysis with a precision instrument created out of himself. I see no inherent obstacle to making, out of steels and bronzes of thought, a precision instrument for self-analysis. I mean steels and bronzes that are really steels and bronzes, but of the mind. Perhaps that’s the only way it can be made. Perhaps it will be necessary to formulate the idea of a precision instrument, concretely visualizing it, in order to undertake a rigorous inner analysis. And it will surely be necessary to reduce the mind to some kind of real matter with a space for it to exist in. All of this depends on an extreme refinement of our inner sensations, which, when taken as far as they can go, will doubtless reveal or create in us a space just as real as the space that’s occupied by material things and that, come to think of it, has no reality.

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, trans. Richard Zenith

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Magical morning in the marsh

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French 20th Century Louis Philippe Style Commode

Fireside Antiques

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Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Battle, East Sussex, England

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lying awake 6 hrs before i am due to get up for work because i reheated some rice earlier & can't sleep because i am so afraid of throwing up & all bodily sensations feel as if they point towards sickness..... oh dearrrr

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anois agus ar uair ár mbáis

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‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

This photograph was made on a commercial assignment for IBM.

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nobody needs to know anything about me

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2011年8月 保存したけどタイトル付けるのに困った画像　前編100枚：ネタ画像置き場

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The sand in Okinawa, Japan contains thousands of tiny “stars”. These “grains of sand” are actually exoskeletons of marine protozoa, which lived on the ocean floor 550 million years ago.

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Alan Davie - Magic Village No.7

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Rabbits fighting mid-air in Kyushu, Japan, 2024 - by Mora Nakamura, Japanese

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Lamb on Bredon Hill, Worcestershire.

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