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  • sunlightpolinahas quoted2 years ago
    Too much regard for others of course, and the android soon wears itself out in its efforts to serve.
  • b7132351702has quoted2 years ago
    n.

    “If what you saw has anything in common with the Masons, it’s the fact that Bramanti’s rite is also a pastime for provincial politicians and professional men. It was thus from the beginning: Freemasonry was a weak exploitation of the Templar legend. And this is the caricature of a caricature. Except that those gentlemen take it extremely seriously. Alas! The world is teeming with Rosicrucians and Templars like the ones you saw this evening. You mustn’t expect any revelation from them, though among their number occasionally you can come across an initiate worthy of trust.”
  • Natalia Méndezhas quoted2 years ago
    Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.
  • Natalia Méndezhas quoted2 years ago
    While your body is always fixed at a particular point in space-time, your mind is always free to ramble in lands of make-believe. And it does.
  • Natalia Méndezhas quoted2 years ago
    The writer guides the way we imagine but does not determine it.
  • Natalia Méndezhas quoted2 years ago
    While our bodies are always locked into a specific here and now, our imaginations free us to roam space-time.
  • Natalia Méndezhas quoted2 years ago
    The brain is not designed for story; there are glitches in its design that make it vulnerable to story. Stories, in all their variety and splendor, are just lucky accidents of the mind’s jury-rigged construction. Story may educate us, deepen us, and give us joy. Story may be one of the things that makes it most worthwhile to be human. But that doesn’t mean story has a biological purpose.
  • Дмитрий Веснинhas quotedlast year
    ‘The discovery of popular culture,’ writes Peter Burke,

    took place in the main in what might be called the cultural periphery of Europe as a whole and of different countries within it. Italy, France and England had long had national literatures and a literary language. Their intellectuals were becoming cut off from folksongs and folktales in a way that Russians, say, or Swedes were not . . . It is not surprising to find that in Britain it was the Scots rather than the English who rediscovered popular culture, or that the folksong movement came late to France and was pioneered by a Breton, Villemarqué, whose collection, Barzaz Braiz, was published in 1839. Again, Villemarqué’s equivalent in Italy, Tommaseo, came from Dalmatia, and when Italian folklore was first studied seriously, in the later nineteenth century, the most important contributions were made in Sicily . . . In Germany too the initiative came from the periphery; Herder and Von Arnim were born east of the Elbe. (pp. 13–14)
  • Дмитрий Веснинhas quotedlast year
    Perhaps only this echo of material interest can counterbalance the instinctive gesture of contemporary man: that of throwing things away.

    [1980]
  • mila_ gihas quoted2 months ago
    the rest of you can’t remember, but I can. We had her on top of us all the time, that enormous Moon: when she was full—nights as bright as day, but with a butter-coloured light—it looked as if she were going to crush us; when she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind;
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