Diary
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Wednesday
Maybe its because I’ve started working, maybe its because I have more ‘responsibilities,’ whatever that means, or that I feel others looking at me, something about Sartre’s look: Famous example, the peephole. I look through the peephole, observing you without your awareness. Then suddenly, shame consumes me. The intensifying footsteps suggest that you’ve found out.… Continue reading
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Monday
On Sense and Reference, Frege Sign: Names, combination of words, letters. For example, points of intersection of a and b & points of intersection of b and c Reference of the signs: what the signs refer to. What is designates. Points of intersection of a and b & points of intersection of b and c… Continue reading
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Wednesday
Fragmented nature of Eliot But fragments on the surface. They form an underlying picture of the social whole. A mosaic Prufrock Over attentiveness, fanaticism, obsession–fetishism. Psychic Contradiction and Women Attraction and revulsion Prufrock desires intimacy But his desires are fetishized. The women, longing, and vulnerable, shy tone are all his object of desires, of an… Continue reading
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The Emperor of Ice Cream
The Emperor of Ice Cream Steven WallaceCall the roller of big cigars,The muscular one, and bid him whipIn kitchen cups concupiscent curds.Let the wenches dawdle in such dressAs they are used to wear, and let the boysBring flowers in last month’s newspapers.Let be be finale of seem.The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.Take from… Continue reading
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Monday
Metaphor Metaphor highlights our perception of something literal ie . “The face of a mountain” But also the inadequacy of metaphors Ie. the beyond. beyond the metaphor lies the x The x is reproduced, extended, or projected by the metaphor It is not x itself. This is a second order The x itself is not… Continue reading
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Tuesday
On beginning and end one absolute end: death the others: finite Each finite ends = finite beginnings but there are infinite finite ends And likewise, beginnings the end itself can be finite but not of its continuity, reproductivity. a beginning precedes an end An end follows a beginning and so on each end ‘ends’ on… Continue reading
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Monday
a pomegranate. ivory of teeth. rose, jug, mud, bones, the plague–an ear. “If you want to say something different from other people, use language that’s different from other people.” An example: Beidao. Untitled. He opens a third eyethe star above his headwarm currents from both east and west have formed an archwaythe expressway passes through… Continue reading
