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Happy World Book Day!

Some of the books I've accumulated since moving here. When I'm older I'll have more books, but probably by accident, and definitely only books I've read.

I'm not a book collector because I'm not a homeowner, because I don't believe in hoarding literature and because indeed "reading books and purchasing books are different hobbies" —the latter in fact is just about consumerism.

Don't want to get all "in this essay I will".

Read if you like it.

Read challenging books.

Pirate books.

Use libraries.

Borrow books and lend books.

Take care of other people's books (ESPECIALLY library books! Nobody cares about your desire to underline stuff!! Use a notebook and remember what happened to narcissus!) (getting carried away sorry)

Read women especially if you're a man who doesn't understand why he should read "women's books". Also if you're like that get out of my blog babe ;)

Read things other than Anglo-Saxon authors (more in this post)

On that note: read hispanoanerican/iberoamerican literature (if there's interest I'll make a list because it's something I'm trying to really do monthly)

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Henry Krystal, Integration and Self-Healing

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When man reflects on his own sadness, he is inevitably compelled to realize his absolute difference and isolation from the "others" and the singularity of his unique death. This confrontation with his own uniqueness, in turn, promotes the mental anguish that directly follows from each man's acknowledgement of his separated state of awareness/existence. And it is through projecting our own thoughts and feelings "outwardly" that we grasp this universal "transcendental" condition; that we, as spectators, are led to sympathize, empathize, and even identify with classic tragic figures despite their seemingly removed or "noble" statures. These tragic heroes are "reduced" to our own level because it is in reality the condition of each man, separately, to exist alone.

Ben Lazare Mijuskovic, Loneliness in Philosophy, Psychology, and Literature

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Lynda Shirar, Dissociative Children

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Cristina Peri Rossi, Estado de exilio, ‘Exilio’, [XVIII Premio Internacional Unicaja de Poesía Rafael Alberti], «Visor de Poesía», Visor Libros, Madrid, 2003, p. 37

Take your hands she taught me to say in the impenetrable language of an English bird. I looked into her eyes but saw nothing. – Cristina Peri Rossi, (2003), State of Exile, Translation by Marilyn Buck, «The Pocket Poets» 58, City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA, 2008

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Thomas A. Clark, Distance and Proximity, «pocketbooks» 08, Pocketbooks, Edinburgh, 2000 [Granary Books, New York, NY]

«Walking is a mobile form of waiting.» – Thomas A. Clark, In Praise of Walking

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Italo Calvino: Sechs Vorschläge für das nächste Jahrtausend. Harvard-Vorlesungen [Aus dem Italienischen von Burkhart Kroeber. München, Wien 1991], Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruhe

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“Virgo,” dragon with Coast Morning Glory vine, linoleum block print for my September Patreon reward

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24|05|2025

Yet another night of bad sleep, and it was possibly the worst in the past couple of weeks. I am struggling quite a bit ngl. I have no idea how I'll manage next week with classes and all. The plan is to get some study done this morning, and then I'll see if I need to take the afternoon off. That will be a last minute decision depending on how I feel. I'd like to at least finish reading the first macro chapter of the anthropology book I have to study, but I am not sure I'll manage to actually finish it today. Hopefully I can get some work done despite everything.

On today's to do list:

finish reading and underlining anthropology book ch1

Irish

look for a new audiobook to listen to

put pile of clean clothes in the closet

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rhubarb tart for a friends birthday

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Oil flask, 1st quarter 5th century BC, Greece.

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tile with winged, crowned sphinx | c. 200s BCE | egypt (possibly qantir), 27th dynasty or later

in the brooklyn museum collection

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The gorgeous Bird Mosaic from the so-called House of the Birds in Italica, Spain, features 35 different species of birds.

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The remarkable modern capacity for differentiation and discernment that has been so painstakingly forged must be preserved, but our challenge now is to develop and subsume that discipline in a more encompassing, more magnanimous intellectual and spiritual engagement with the mystery of the universe. Such an engagement can happen only if we open ourselves to a range of epistemologies that together provide a more multidimensionally perceptive scope of knowledge. To encounter the depths and rich complexity of the cosmos, we require ways of knowing that fully integrate the imagination, the aesthetic sensibility, moral and spiritual intuition, revelatory experience, symbolic perception, somatic and sensuous modes of understanding, empathic knowing. Above all, we must awaken to and overcome the great hidden anthropocentric projection that has virtually defined the modern mind: the pervasive projection of soullessness onto the cosmos by the modern self’s own will to power.

Richard Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche

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At the same time, I require a relationship to myself that is not defined by the gaze of others, where I do not have the external relationship to myself that emerges because I observe myself in order to ensure that I appear to others as I want to appear. In solitude I achieve a more direct relationship to myself because it is not mediated by others' gaze. In solitude we escape the experience of being an object for another person. This constitutes a freedom from others. When you are alone, you therefore have the opportunity to escape relating to yourself in such a reflexive way.

Lars Svendsen, A Philosophy of Loneliness

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Emmy van Deurzen, "Existentialism and Existential Psychotherapy" in Heart & Soul: The Therapeutic Face of Philosophy, ed. Chris Mace