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Archive for December, 2005

Happy Solstice!

Solstice, the longest night of the year. Drinking a bonfire–a glass of Laphroaig 15–that amazing whisky, the sensation of the peat cinders smoldering in the belly.
Happy birthday, new year!

4 Quotes from Nietzsche on my mind

Perspectivism
There is only a perspective seeing, a perspective knowing; and the more affects we allow to speak about a thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can lend to the thing, the more complete will our “concept” of the thing, our “objectivity” be.
Reality
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in […]

“[I]n my thirty-sixth year of life I arrived at the lowest point of my vitality - I still lived, but without being able to see three paces in front of me. At that time - it was 1879 - I resigned my professorship at Basel, lived through the summer like a shadow in St. Moritz […]

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