#Lawrence Montaigne

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Lawrence Montaigne as Stonn

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Hi Snail! I hope your day is going well! ☀️ I woke up this morning having "Don't touch my clog" in my head and then my mind wandered. What if the Kidd Pirates were in a Punk band. Their most famous song would be "Don't touch my cog" 🤭🥹

I love that song so much, I am so glad you liked it. Let me give you another one to get that one out of your head: Red Flags - Tom Cardy, Montaigne. I picture Sanji in mind on a date.

The way I think about a band au constantly for all of the One Piece Crews. Hear me out:

Punk Victoria:

Vocalist Kid is the biggest hype-man for his band. He formed it way back in school in the performing arts center with his best friend, and drummer, Killer.

When they were talking about writing lyrics and discussing logos, the quiet kid in the centre calmly slipped them a piece of paper with a hasty drawing of a simple logo. Wire also let them know that he is an avid guitarist and has been playing since he was a child.

After they had a few jam sessions, they decided they needed something to complete their sound, something deep and full. When Heat eagerly auditioned for them in the school's performing arts hub, the three of them knew they had found their bassist.

As they grew and improved their sound to become more fluid, and graduated from high school and begin their studies in college, a slip was hung in a local practice studio to inform them the 'battle of the bands' was to commence in three months time. The trophy of such a feat was the ever elusive 'One Piece' passed down from champion to champion, like an ornamental crown to a regal lineage.

Kid knew he wanted to win it, and he was going to take his band, Punk Victoria, with him to claim it.

There were a few other bands that were keen on the title. The two members of their perspective bands that gave him the most trouble was the drummer of The Straw-Hats, Luffy, and the dual pianist and vocalist of Heart Beats, Lawrence.

Any time Law and Luffy showed up at conflicting practice times in the studio, Kid's teeth got set on edge and his mind got all buzzed in fury. He couldn't wait to win the 'One Piece' after he battled it out with their perspective bands and claim the title for himself.

All he had to do was pick the most perfect song to lead his set with, and it was as good as his.

Just some thoughts to end the night for me with. I hope you have a spectacular day, and I adore that you're still bopping to the song I gave you last time!

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lyric ask,,,every hhsa character /hj

okay bitch (affectionate) let's fucking go

juno: half awake, i wander through this house / lost in a labyrinth and left with no way out / i built this hall of mirrors all myself / the faces staring back at me look like somebody else - wander. wonder. by the arcadian wild OR so throw on the black dress, mix in with the lot / you might wake up and notice you're someone you're not / if you look in the mirror and don't like what you see / you can find out first hand what it's like to be me - the end! by my chemical romance

nat: oh but i'm quite small and i never have it all together / and i'm just a girl who doesn't have any diamonds or pearls / but don't give me your pity 'cause there's more to life than pretty things / so i'll just give you me - five foot three by flannel graph

eloise: well, i'm just a stranger, i'm only a walker / i guess i am human, but sometimes i feel / like i'm only a ghost, like i'm only a wall / and if you come around, honey / i'll probably just follow you home / 'cause it's all that i know how to do - steamboat by adrianne lenker

andrés: and you've come to know me stubborn as a butcher / and you've come to know me thankless as a guest / will you recognize my face / when god's awful grace / strips me of my jacket and my vest? - hymn #101 by joe pug

lawrence: there's rules to life i know / and if you follow them you'll go / up to the mountains and the clouds / and where the golden rivers flow / but I've always been so good at breaking all the rules / i wasn't made to be their robot / and i ain't nobody's fool / i am the goat that got away / but i know there will come a day / when i'll be punished for my mind / 'cause i led myself astray - what's a devil to do? by harley poe

margaret: i picked up the sword that you gave me today / took your blessing and then i made my way / hoped the first challenge would be easy / oh, great deku tree, would you please me? / all the heartless want my blood / all of the gods wanna spit me out as cud / if I don't make it out alive / at least i'll see my undead wife - the dying song by montaigne

draven: so kiss me now / this whiskey on my breath / feel the lives that i have taken / what little soul that i have left / and oh, my god / i'll take you to the grave / the only love i've ever known / the only soul i ever saved - chasing twisters by delta rae

pidge: and i have so many / questions / about life, the universe / and everything / i look up at the / stars at night / and i sometimes wonder / if the atheists were right / 'cause this world is getting worse / don't know if i wanna be here after the night - 42 by sage crosby

northernfield: hey, danny-boy, i was thinking of our crew / but thinking just makes me sad, and that’s why i write to you / how do you do? / there’s been years between us / didn’t we have big ideas when our school was done? / we’d leave our smaller minds and move out to oregon / but i was the only one / who went the road less taken - those days are gone, and my heart is breaking by barton carroll

ebony: out of the blue, everything's new / all the talk we heard was true / the legends we all heard once / the whispers from the storefronts / hope for the best / prepare for the worst / we wait like stock-piled landmines, ready to burst / wait all your life to see what you see / open up your eyes and be free - sicilian crest by the mountain goats

juniper: i dragged her down / i put her out / and back there i left her where no one could see / and lifeless, cold / into this well / i stared as this moment was held for me - drowning lessons by my chemical romance

claire: but counting down the days to go / it just ain't living / and i just hope you know / that if you say / good-bye today / i'd ask you to be true / 'cause the hardest part of this / is leaving you - cancer by my chemical romance

this genuinely emotionally wrecked me thank you for this ask do come again

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Self-words quotes and aphorisms

Self-words quotes and aphorisms Self-words quotes and aphorisms, quotations, ideas and thoughts, by famous writers and authors, from Self-Acceptance to Self-Interest I don't care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself. Michel de Montaigne There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself. Miyamoto Musashi  The Book of Five Rings Some very important key words for the growth of the human being. First golden rule: you must learn from experience, in general! Then you must always rely on: self-control; politeness; hard-working; self-conscience; self-assessment; self-critical; self-management; self-autonomy; self-determination; self-esteem; self-government; self-independence; self-esteem; self-respect; cooperation; empathy, self-motivation; self-confidence; self-love; pluralism; reciprocity; tolerance; learning to learn; permanent education; rules; law; perseverance; responsibility; pragmatism; honesty; self-sacrifice; self-discipline; and last but not least, a bit of luck! SELF-ACCEPTANCE Our entire life... consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. Jean Anouilh (1910-1987, French playwright) Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881, Swiss philosopher, poet, critic) Accept the place the divine providence has found for you. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist) Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others. William Hazlitt (1778-1830, British essayist) The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Carl Jung (1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist) SELF-ACTUALIZATION Now is the time when your action is practice. The Dalai Lama Only by giving, only by serving, only by doing, do we really do something for ourselves. James W. Frick Our greatest joy and satisfaction comes from the act of giving. Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998, American expert on love, lecturer, author) Only those who have nothing in them have nothing to give. Douglas G. Franklin Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author) SELF-APPRAISAL Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit. Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer) Never let your failures go to your heart or your successes go to your head. Author Unknown Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble. John Madden (1936-, American football coach) SELF-APPRECIATION To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections. Sandra Bierig I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody. Louis L'Amour (1908-1988, American Western author) SELF-APPROVAL What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval. Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer) I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself. Mike Piazza SELF-AWARENESS My mind is my biggest asset. Tiger Woods (1975-, American golfer) Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? Marcus Aurelius Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing. Lawrence Bossidy Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.” Anthony de Mello Self awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad. Debbie Ford I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards becoming a champion. Billie Jean King (1943-, American tennis player) The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve. Henry David Thoreau Without self-awareness we are as babies in the cradles. Virginia Woolf SELF-CARE Keep taking time for yourself until you are you again. Lalah Delia You can’t always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. Wayne Dyer You have your own life, why waste it on focusing on others. Nitin Namdeo When you focus on yourself and love yourself, some relationships have to go. Adrian Michael Be you, love you. All ways, always. Alexandra Elle I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance. Pablo Casals Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness. Rollo May Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting. William Shakespeare If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. Jack Kornfield SELF-CONCEPT The term self-concept is a general term used to refer to how someone thinks about, evaluates or perceives themselves. To be aware of oneself is to have a concept of oneself.

Self-words quotes and aphorisms SELF-CONFIDENCE Creativity means believing you have greatness. Wayne Dyer (1940-, American psychotherapist, author, lecturer) The confidence we have in ourselves arises in a great measure from that which we have in others. Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer) One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. Arthur Ashe (1943-1993, African-American tennis player) Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. Madame Marie Curie (1867-1934, Polish-born French physicist) SELF-CONFLICT Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself. Georg Groddeck It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. Sidney J. Harris (1917-, American journalist) It isn't the things that happen to us, it's the things we think are going to happen to us that drive us almost crazy. Kathleen Norris (1880-1966, American novelist) A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. On Other Peoples Expectations: The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist) SELF-CONSTRAINT Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them. St. Teresa of Avila Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business. Clara Barton (1821-1912, American humanitarian) I listen and give input only if somebody asks. Barbara Bush (1925-, American First Lady, wife of George H. Bush) Too often in ironing out trouble someone gets scorched. Marcelene Cox (American writer) When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security. Myrtle Reed SELF-CONTROL A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888, American author) If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him? Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941 American writer) I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek philosopher) Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root. Robert Burns (1759-1796, Scottish poet) I never prod my nose into other man's porridge. Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, poet) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. Confucius (BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher) The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. Charles Darwin (1809-1882, British naturalist) Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock. Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader) We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794, British historian) It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others. Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer) He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. Lao-Tzu (BC 600-?, Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism) He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. Philip Massinger (1583-1640, British dramatist) He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900, German philosopher) The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and objectionable. Plato (BC 427?-347?, Greek philosopher) To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941, British novelist, essayist) You can also read this article about The Importance of self-control SELF-DELUSION Don't let self-doubt hold you back! Author Unknown Don't mistake chicken dung for an egg. American Proverb (Sayings of American origin) The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900, German philosopher) The worst thing you can do is start slow, or con yourself into thinking that you can take your time getting into a match. The curtain is up so you've got to perform. Jack Kramer (1918-, American basketball player) I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else. Daniel Day-Lewis (1958-, British-born American actor) SELF-DENIAL Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end. Jane Taylor Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak. John Selden (1584-1654, British jurist, statesman) Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist) Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock. Theodore Parker (1810-1860, American minister) The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing. Leigh Hunt (1784-1859, British poet, essayist) Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self. Eric Hoffer (1902-1983, American author, philosopher) SELF-DETERMINATION It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. Zig Ziglar (1926-, American sales trainer, author, motivational speaker) I will always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments. Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-, Austrian-born American actor, author, director, restaurateur) My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me, or I can be lost in a maze. My choice, my responsibility, win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny. Elaine Maxwell

Self-words post by English-culture SELF-DISCIPLINE Doing your best is more important than being the best. Author Unknown A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it. Ida Tarbell If someone transports dung and does not eat it, it should not be concluded that he is an honest person. Taiwanese Proverb If you can command yourself, you can command the world. Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin) If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to discipline you. Leonard Orr Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne (1533-1592, French philosopher, essayist) He who conquers others is strong. He who conquers himself is mighty. Lao-Tzu (BC 600-?, Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism) Being professional in whatever you do is important. Talent alone is not enough. Kathy Ireland (1963-, American model) Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back. W. K. Hope You must have discipline to have fun. Julia Child (1912-2004, American gourmet cook, author, and television personality) SELF-DISCORVERY No one is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we all call me, which is why self-liberation, self-actualization, self-transcendence, etc., are the most exciting games in town. Robert Wilson (1941-, American theater director, designer) When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. William A. Ward We discover in ourselves what others hide from us, and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves. Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates. Thomas Szasz (1920-, American psychiatrist) People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and they pass themselves by without wondering. St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born bishop of Hippo, theologian) Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find. St. Catherine of Siena I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian) Everything changes when you change. Jim Rohn (American businessman, author, speaker, philosopher) The person who God shows a treasure to must dig it out himself. Czechoslovakian Proverb (Sayings of Czech origin) One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher) No thinker's thoughts give me as much pleasure as my own. Of course, this does not prove anything in their favor; but on the other hand, I would be foolish to neglect fruits that are tasteful just because they grow on my own tree. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900, German philosopher) No one has ever learned fully to know themselves. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist) Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939, Austrian physician, founder of Psychoanalysis) Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. Lewis Carroll (1832-1898, British writer, mathematician) Let's dare to be ourselves, for we do that better than anyone else. Shirley Briggs SELF-DOUBT Our self-conceit sustains, and always must sustain us. Samuel Butler (1612-1680, British poet, satirist) SELF-EDUCATION People think of education as something that they can finish. Isaac Asimov School can provide you an education and university can give you a culture, but self-knowledge and self-learning can help you to make a fortune. Carl William Brown Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing. Isaac Asimov The first thing a student should understand to have success is that of becoming a self-taught man. Carl William Brown Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost SELF-ESTEEM SELF-ESTEEM controls PERFORMANCE/REALITY which stimulate SELF-TALK which reinforces SELF-ESTEEM. This cycle can work positively or negatively and is greatly influenced by the self-talk. (I knew I wasn't good at..., next time I'll practice and do better! Author Unknown All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation. Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924, American President (28th)) Blessed are they who heal us of self-despising. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious. Read the full article

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Happy birthday to the late, great Lawrence Montaigne, born on this day in 1931. The actor, writer, dancer, and stuntman was a busy man on TV and in the movies, particularly in the 1960s.

Star Trek fans will remember him as Romulan Decius in “Balance of Terror” and as Vulcan Stonn in “Amok Time”. He also spoke several languages which secured him both international film roles as well as a position translating medical texts.

The multitalented Montaigne passed away on March 17, 2017.

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60′s Batman gifs 70/?

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Stonn, you're back!

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ℝ𝔼𝔸𝔻𝕀ℕ𝔾 𝕃𝕀𝕊𝕋 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟚:

𝓑𝓞𝓞𝓚𝓢:

- Grimm Tales for Young and Old by Philip Pullman, 2012

- The Secret History by Donna Tart, 1992

- Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella, 2020

- Dracula by Bram Stoker, 1897 

- Maurice by E.M. Foster, 1971

𝓟𝓞𝓔𝓜𝓢:

- The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill, 1982

𝓔𝓢𝓢𝓐𝓨𝓢: 

- Once More to the Lake by E.B. White, 1941

- Death of A Moth by Virginia Woolf, 1942

- Go Gentle into that Good Night by Robert Ebert, 2009

- The New Commandments by Christopher Hitchens, 2010

- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche,1886

- The Soul of Man under Socialism by Oscar Wilde, 1891

- The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine, 1791

- The Relativity of Wrong by Isaac Asimov, 1989

-  Aesthetics of Silence by Susan Sontag, 1967

- A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, 1929

- On Cannibals by Michel de Montaigne, 1580

- The Myth Of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, 1942

- Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, 1849

-  The Ecstasy of Influence by Jonathon Lethem, 2011

- Life Without Principle by Henry David Thoreau, 1863

- You and the Atomic Bomb by George Orwell, 1945

-  Violence of the Lambs by John Jeremiah Sullivan, 2011

-  The Poetics of Disobedience by Alice Notley, 2004

- The Flower of Capital by Michael Palmer, ????

- The Poetry of the Present by D. H. Lawrence, 1920

- The Rejection of Closure by Lyn Hejinian, 1983

- Don’t Mourn For Us by Jim Sinclair, 1993

- Inhaling the Spore by Lawrence Weschler, 1994

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Reboot Stonn

Fandom: Star Trek (reboot) Timeline: AOS (2.0) Series: Reboot fancasting

Related fanworks: Reboot T'Pring

Adam Driver as Stonn.

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I don't much care for Stonn, but through @oddthesungod I happened to @gar-feld​'s fancasting and I admit I was tempted to give it a try. But, as you might see at this post, I gave up after a search for a costume failed. Out of the blue, in 13 March I decided that I wanted to do it; the search still gave me no interesting outfit, and ended up using the one I trashed back in August. Not my best manip but not the worst either. It's just something average, humble that does its job.

For @gar-feld​ and @thorium-draws who saw Adam in Lawrence Montaigne's Stoon. And to everyone who is either fan of Adam Driver or Stonn. Enjoy!

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Tec stuffs (aka Behind The Manip) Adam Driver was very nice. It took me some time to find him with shorter hair and cleaned look, but when I found the right pic it took me very little to "Vulcanize" him. I'm sorry for the cut figure, but I couldn't find a man with a stance that fit the body, the legs I tried looked odd (the original pic does have a very odd angle that has been partially hidden by rotating, but it still is taken from a bit below the catwalk).

Credits

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Festive incomings at the Ramblings!

Festive incomings at the Ramblings!

I do hope everyone has had a lovely seasonal break; if you’re anything like us at the Ramblings, there’s been a lot of food and drink and silly games and laughter with family, which has been quite lovely. There were also plenty of parcels to unwrap, and inevitably there have been books – in fact, rather more than I might have anticipated!

Things were slightly complicated by my birthday also being…

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Lawrence Montaigne as Stonn

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Star Trek piange la morte di Lawrence Montaigne, l'attore aveva 86 anni

#StarTrek piange la morte di #LawrenceMontaigne, l'attore aveva 86 anni

Lawrence Montaigne è morto Venerdì 17 marzo all’età di 86 anni. Tra il primi anni del 1960 ed il 1980 fu guest star in numerosi show televisivi, ma divenne famoso per alcune sue apparizioni nella Serie Classica di Star Trek: nei panni del romulano Decius nell’episodio “La Navicella Invisibile” e nei panni del  vulcaniano Stonn ne “Il Duello“.

La notizia della sua morte è stata riportata sul…

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Per andare in Messico consiglio un compagno di viaggio ubriaco di absinthe e malinconico chiamato Geoffrey Firmin. Si stratta dell’alter ego dell’autore Malcom Lowrey, che con il romanzo Sotto il vulcano ci porta nella remota e selvaggia cittadina di Quauhnahuac, alle pendici della regione vulcanica dell’America Latina, in un’avventura che è stata definita “Divina Commedia ubriaca”.

Per i viaggi in terre estreme verso i poli: Ultimo parallelo di Filippo Tuena, il racconto della conquista mancata del Polo Sud, Nel bianco di Simona Vinci ambientato nell’Artico. Ci sono poi viaggi ntorno al mondo come quelli di Lawrence Osborne de Il turista nudo o The Wet and the Dry, in cui cerca di procurarsi alcol nei paesi musulmani in cui è vietato, riuscendoci in maniera imprevedibile. E ancora, per i deserti: Sabbie bianche di Geoffrey Dyer. 

Sul viaggio vicino a casa e la scoperta della propria città: Viaggi da Fermo di Angelo Ferracuti in cui ci racconta Fermo, la sua città natale, che è un tipico viaggio nella provincia italiana. Sull’Italia c’è una letteratura di viaggio sterminata dal momento in cui dal Settecento in poi divenne la tappa obbligata per ogni artista o intellettuale che volesse ampliare i propri orizzonti. Indimenticabili le pagine del viaggio in Italia di Goethe, per il quale era il paese in cui “ritrovare me stesso in ciò che vedo”, un luogo di perdizione, di eccesso, di bellezza, di appagamento dei sensi dove ritrovare la pace interiore. “Ognuno vi vive nell’ebbrezza di una specie di oblio di sé stesso, ed io faccio come tutti gli altri; quasi non mi riconoso, e mi pare di essere diventato un altro uomo. O ero pazzo in passato, o lo sono ora”. 

Poi ci sono i viaggi in Italia di Michel de Montaigne, Montesquieu, Stendhal, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot fino a Simone Weil, alcuni anche molto bizzarri come quello dell’anarchico Bakunin che scappa su e giù dall’Italia per fuggire all’arresto o partecipare a qualche sommossa. 

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I saw pictures of philosophical texts & i was wondering for someone who's interested in reading philosophy where should i start?

Philosophy is an ample spectrum of diverse subjects, perspectives, and unanswered questions. I’m by no means an expert, but below are several works that can serve as an introduction. I have also included second-hand reference/guide books, as well as databases, courses, and podcasts that can help for general orientation. Feel free to explore as you wish (don’t feel too compelled to follow linearity — rather your own instinct and interest). Keep in mind that philosophy is not just about studying ideas and notions, but also about your judgment and reaction towards these according to your own experience or speculation. It’s also about questioning your own beliefs in different areas and discovering your own standpoint. It’s preferable to have a historical notion of influence, context, and consequence, but it should be a stimulating endeavor for you. Discovery shouldn’t feel like a chore but a challenge. You will eventually find yourself drawn to particular conceptions and thinkers that will create more questions and compel you to explore certain areas more than others. [Other kinds of literature are complementary to philosophy, so I have also included texts that might aid and encourage further inquiry].

Philosophical Works

The Upanishads

Tao Te Ching, Laozi

Meno | Theaetetus | Phaedo, Plato

Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle

Letter to Menoeceus | Principal Doctrines, Epicurus

Enchiridion, Epictetus

Meditations, Marcus Aurelius

Letters from a Stoic, Seneca

Of Idleness | That It Is Folly… | Of Experience, Michel de Montaigne

Discourse of the Method | Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume

On the Improvement of Understanding, Baruch Spinoza

Political Writings, Voltaire

Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals | Prolegomena, Immanuel Kant

Aesthetic and Philosophical Essays, Friedrich Schiller

A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollenstonecraft

Essays and Aphorisms, Arthur Schopenhauer

Fear and Trembling | The Sickness Unto Death, Soren Kierkegaard

The Gay Science | On the Genealogy of Morality | The Birth of Tragedy, Friedrich Nietzsche

All Things Are Possible, Lev Shestov

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin

In Praise of Shadows, Junichiro Tanizaki

The Myth of Sysiphus | The Rebel, Albert Camus

The Ethics of Ambiguity, Simone de Beauvoir

The Human Condition | Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt

The World of Perception, Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Discourse on Colonialism, Aimé Cesaire

Mythologies, Roland Barthes

On Beauty, Umberto Eco

Philosophical Literature

[Aeschylus (The Oresteia), Euripides (The Bacchae), Horace (Satires), Attar of Nishapur (The Conference of the Birds), Rumi (Masnavi), Petrarch (Secretum), Lawrence Sterne (The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman), Voltaire (Candide | Micromégas), Denis Diderot (Rameau’s Nephew), Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment | Notes from Underground), Ivan Turgenev (Fathers and Sons), Chekhov (Ward No. 6 | The Black Monk), J. W. von Goethe (Elective Affinities), Edgar Allan Poe (The Imp of the Perverse), Honoré de Balzac (The Magic Skin), Oscar Wilde (The Portrait of Dorian Gray), Franza Kafka (In the Penal Colony | Before the Law | A Country Doctor), Thomas Mann (Death in Venice | Disillusionment), Stefan Zweig (The Royal Game), Albert Camus (The Stranger | The Fall | The Plague), Dino Buzatti (The Tartar Steppe), Natsume Soseki (Kusamakura), Christa Wolf (No Place on Earth), Maurice Blanchot (The Madness of Day), Jorge Luis Borges (The Library of Babel), Samuel Beckett (Molloy), Ernesto Sábato (On Heroes and Tombs), James Baldwin (Just Above My Head), Roland Barthes (A Lover’s Discourse), Thomas Bernhard (Wittgenstein’s Nephew), Audre Lorde (Sister Outsider: Lectures and Speeches) Toni Morrison (Song of Solomon)]

Reference Books

The Oxford Companion to Philosophy

History of Philosophy, William Turner

A History of Women Philosophers, Vol I | Vol. II | Vol. III | Vol. IV

The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Diogenes Laertius

History of Western and Eastern Philosophy, Radha Krishan

Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy, Brian Carr & Indira Mahalingam

Classic Asian Philosophy: A Guide to the Essential Texts, Joel Kupperman

History of Islamic Philosophy, Henry Corbin

A Short History of African Philosophy, Barry Hallen

Sadhana, Rabindranath Tagore

Databases

The Internet Classics Archive

Monoskop

Early Modern Texts

Forgotten Books

E-Books Directory

Gutenberg

UC Press

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Philosophy Pages

Marxists.org

Online Library of Liberty

Lucian of Samosata

Ontology/History of Logic

Medieval Philosophy

Ethiopian Philosophy

Free Online Courses/Podcasts

King’s College London, LMU

Coursera

University of Oxford

MIT

OpenCulture

The University of Edinburgh

Open Yale Courses

[machiavellique]

·         The Atheist's Mass (Honoré de Balzac) ·         The Beautifull Cassandra (Jane Austen) ·         The Communist Manifesto (Fredrich Engels and Karl Marx) ·         Cruel Alexis (Virgil) ·         The Dhammapada (Anon) ·         The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon (Aesop) ·         The Eve of St Agnes (John Keats) ·         The Fall of Icarus (Ovid) ·         The Figure in the Carpet (Henry James) ·         The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows (Rudyard Kipling) ·         Gooseberries (Anton Chekhov) ·         The Great Fire of London (Samuel Pepys) ·         The Great Winglebury Duel (Charles Dickens) ·         How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog (Johann Peter Hebel) ·         How Much Land Does A Man Need? (Leo Tolstoy) ·         How To Use Your Enemies (Baltasar Gracián) ·         How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing (Michel de Montaigne) ·         I Hate and I Love (Catullus) ·         Il Duro (D. H. Lawrence) ·         It was snowing butterflies (Charles Darwin) ·         Jason and Medea (Apollonius of Rhodes) ·         Kasyan from the Beautiful Mountains (Ivan Turgenev) ·         Leonardo da Vinci (Giorgio Vasari) ·         The Life of a Stupid Man (Ryunosuke Akutagawa) ·         Lips Too Chilled (Matsuo Basho) ·         Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (Oscar Wilde) ·         The Madness of Cambyses (Herodotus ·         The Maldive Shark (Herman Melville) ·         The Meek One (Fyodor Dostoyevsky ·         Mrs Rosie and the Priest (Giovanni Boccaccio) ·         My Dearest Father (Wolfgang Mozart) ·         The Night is Darkening Round Me (Emily Brontë) ·         The nightingales are drunk (Hafez) ·         The Nose (Nikolay Gogol) ·         Olalla (Robert Louis Stevenson) ·         The Old Man in the Moon (Shen Fu), Miss Brill (Katherine Mansfield) ·         The Old Nure's Story (Elizabeth Gaskell) ·         On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts (Thomas De Quincey) ·         On the Beach at Night Alone (Walt Whitman) ·         The Reckoning (Edith Wharton) ·         Remember, Body... (C. P. Cavafy) ·         The Robber Bridegroom (Brothers Grimm) ·         The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue (Anon) ·         Sindbad the Sailor ·         Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ·         Socrates' Defence (Plato) ·         Speaking of Siva (Anon) ·         The Steel Flea (Nikolai Leskov) ·         The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe) ·         The Terrors of the Night (Thomas Nashe) ·         The Tinder Box (Hans Christian Andersen) ·         Three Tang Dynasty Poets (Wang Wei) ·         Trimalchio's Feast (Petronius) ·         To-morrow (Joseph Conrad), Of Street Piemen (Henry Mayhew) ·         Traffic (John Ruskin) ·         Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls (Marco Polo) ·         The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe (Richard Hakluyt) ·         The Wife of Bath (Geoffrey Chaucer) ·         The Woman Much Missed (Thomas Hardy) ·         The Yellow Wall-paper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) ·         Wailing Ghosts (Pu Songling) ·         Well, they are gone, and here must I remain (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)