#bookshelf lamp

[life-spire]

[ssiat]

January Early access set 1 

PATREON (early)

[mabelsguidetolife]

in my heart i live here on top of this stand, in the bustling wooden city…… people are kind there and everyone has lots of fun

[langernameohnebedeutung]

honestly, maybe Blaine should have gone into interior design or something like that in another life. completely underrated moment in Blaine-history when he copes with losing his mansion and becoming persona non grata #1 in Seattle by doing this:

he's just so. something.

[nicklloydnow]

“HERVIER: Your piece of fiction that preceded A Dangerous Encounter was titled Aladdin's Problem. What precisely is this problem? And why Aladdin?

JÜNGER: That is what I would term a classical question. Personally, I fnd the problem quite simple. But it frequently happens that an author finds his own ideas simple because he feels at home, while others are unable to get their bearings. In fact, Aladdin's problem is twofold. First of all, culture is declining. How was culture born? It was born with the cult of the dead, with the religious worship of ancestors; that began with the pyramids and with the tumuli built by prehistoric men, with their caves and grottoes. All these things are vanishing and are even extinct. I focused on these burial issues because I regard the disappearance of ancestor worship as a characteristic of present-day decadence. When I stroll through a cemetery, I am struck by the sadness, which is aroused not by the unfortunate deceased, but by the dreadfully uniform way in which people think about them.

Thus the original idea for Aladdin probably came to me when I visited a totally abandoned cemetery in New York. Everything was impeccably clean and well kept, but I sensed that noboby ever came there. Only the florist delivery men still show up on fixed dates to deliver bouquets. Incidentally, there is a frightful story by Maugham or an author of that ilk [Evelyn Waugh-Translator's note]: The Loved One. It describes the way in which people now embellish the dead while trying to get rid of them as fast as possible. For instance, one can have the deceased's pipe inserted into his mouth, or put makeup on his face. This description is both fascinating and consternating at once.

When a man is dead, people believe that he is gone forever. According to that logic, there can be no art. For art offers more than pure presence, it offers transcendence. If the cult of the dead were to reappear, it would be a sign that culture can take root again. That is the idea of the narrator who accidentally comes into contact with that universe because his uncle owns a funeral home.

HERVIER: But it's a huge establishment. Isn't that a mere business rather than a real worship of the dead.

JUNGER: It's always like that. Transcendence also implies the banality of immanence. That, entre nous, is the great concern of priests. It was already so in Egypt: all the people who embalmed mummies and who worked in quarries to build the pyramids. Those are two faces of one and the same thing. And in our civilization, it has to be manifested in the same way. Or rather, it ought to, because now it is a fiction.

In the second place, we are in the situation of possessing a formidable power. We extract things from the earth non-stop; oil, uranium, etc. Our situation resembles that of Aladdin. He is a young man who has received an instrument from a magician - a miraculous lamp with an enormous power. All he has to do is rub it, and a powerful genie appears, who gets him anything he wants. He can ask for a harem or construct a palace in a single night. We have the same capability. Aladdin's lamp is made of terracotta or copper. Our lamp also comes from the earth, but it is made of uranium. If we rub it, we don't get light, we get more than light: we get monstrous forces. And what does Aladdin draw from his lamp? He has palaces built, he does everything that a child's mind could wish for. That, incidentally, is the charm of the tale. But ultimately, he leads a mediocre life, the kind every mediocre man dreams about: he leads the life of a little despot, whereas he could have gained mastery of the whole world, from Mauritania to China. And then, he does a lot of stupid things; one day he loses his lamp, and the magician regains his power.

The parallel strikes me as highly fruitful, for we are in exactly the same situation. Monstrous energies come to us, and what do we do with them? Instead of building a magnificent world and great utopias where, for instance, no one would have to work - we don't even consider it, we use our lamp to stockpile nuclear bombs. The genies we conjure up are not good ones: we go east and west, and we may be dashing towards our doom.

Thus the problem would be as follows: 1. transcendence; 2. the ability to intelligently administer the power that breaks in on us.”

[vakariansmonocle]

having to threaten my cat so she wonT WALK AGAINST THE HEATLAMP FOR BAHA while her mother SLEEPS I feel insane

where is her self preservation why does it not exist

my child my sweet little noodle of a cat

dumb when it comes to watching Baha exist

this is why she needs a whole jungle gym around the windows

[dr-lizortecho]

Max: in your little tiny bed

me: not everyone can have a monster of a mattress Max, god just let your feet dangle off the edge or somethin’

[aliengirl]

Jade had a tier 1 tiny home, later a tier 2 and then a tier 3. Now we are officially upgrading to a full house and instead of just expanding the original one or picking one already made, im decided to build one myself and IM IN LOVE

[semeia]

[dlnqnt]

cleaning my room has gone v slowly but it's getting there !!

[pamwmsn]

hdtv.com

Bookshelf ideas

[yoncchi]

Kids Room New York An illustration of a medium-sized transitional girl's room with a dark wood floor and a brown floor and purple walls.

[katebushmama]

keep me away before i take it all

[ushomeguard]

Contemporary Living Room - Living Room Example of a large, modern, open-concept living room with a dark wood floor, gray walls, a television mounted on the wall, and a bar.

[valkyriethemes]

Transitional Family Room Baltimore

a mid-sized, open concept, transitional family room with white walls, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace, and no television.

[moominsnufkin]

Today. The (other next door) neighbours threw out A Whole Lawnmower. It’s not supposed to go thereeee