Henry David Thoreau
Maxim Vorobiev, Oak fractured by a lightning. Allegory on the artist’s wife death, 1842
This Transient Life [無常] (1970), dir. Akio Jissoji
in the lava fields…. ©thepalelaurel
stay away from people that only see things from their perspective
(by Roberto Rodríguez)
La maschera del demonio (1960)
At some point, most people stop growing. They settle into a comfortable identity, clinging to a fixed idea of who they are.
When this happens, any change — even growth — starts to feel like a threat. This is how people grow old without growing wise. Elders were once respected not merely for their age but for the wisdom living inside them.
If we resist the pull toward the comfort and security of a rigid identity, we open ourselves to ongoing growth. Even the smallest shifts, day by day, week by week, build toward something remarkable.
Just imagine what you could become.
C’est pourquoi les peuples lunaires décrits par Socrate dans le Phédon, ces habitants des sommets de la terre qui mènent au-dessus des nuages une vie sobre et frugale en se consacrant à l’étude de la plus secrète philosophie, ainsi qu’à la pratique de la religion, on peut dire qu’ils goûtent la félicité de Saturne, dans un bonheur et une longévité qui les font ressembler moins à des hommes mortels qu’à des démons immortels. Beaucoup les considèrent comme des héros ou des demi-dieux, d’une espèce toute d’or, qui jouirait en quelque sorte de l’âge et du règne de Saturne. Voilà peut-être, me semble-t-il, ce qu’ont voulu dire certains astrologues arabes, en affirmant qu’au-delà de la ligne d’équinoxe, vers le midi, vivent des démons très subtils qui ne semblent ni naître ni mourir ; c’est là qu’il faudrait situer le pouvoir de Saturne et la Queue du Dragon. Albumasar semble bien le confirmer lorsqu’il parle dans son Sadar de certaines régions de l’Inde qui sont soumises à Saturne, et où la longévité est telle que la plupart des habitants meurent à un âge extrêmement avancé : l’explication étant, selon lui, que Saturne porte atteinte aux étrangers et non aux gens du pays. — Marsile Ficin, Conseils aux intellectuels, Livre III, 22: Comment nous pouvons nous accorder avec les puissances célestes : les septs moyens dont nous disposons. Qui pâtit et qui profite de l'influence de Saturne ; qui en est protégé par Jupiter. Comment le ciel agit sur l'esprit, le corps et l'âme. (1489)
"The female melancholic’s preferred mode of self-removal or expiry involves the consolidation of affect within the body. What might otherwise have been interpreted as occasional grief hereby metamorphoses into an almost competitive stance of female melancholy, which both celebrates and transcends the prevailingly material conceptualization of women’s mourning. Niobe profits from marmorization in the sense that she approaches the status of her divine punishers temporally, her narrative chronology extended interminably beyond the text that is supposed to contain her form. Niobe suffers a condition of sibylic life—rooted to the earth, petrified in nonmovement—but, in an integral point of difference to the male melancholic’s post- humous outlook, she-as-monument continues to memorialize affect in an action that prolongs circumstantial grief to the point of subversion. Understood thus, female marmorization is by no means a “degenerative transformation of body into stone,” nor “this period’s chief literary emblem of vitalism’s failure.” Once we take melancholy into account, marmorization is revised as an act of resistance, and stone starts to speak. Leaning in to what stone says allows us to reassess versions of female melancholy that involve the material—material grief, material bodies—as monumental representations of an emotion that could become so seemingly discarnate in others." Emma Rayner.
Steinberg by Elizaveta Porodina for Public Relations
your decomposing nutrients would produce a beautiful tree
i hope i promote a symbiotic relationship between said tree and the fungi
As with most female horror fans, people love to ask me what it is I get out of horror. I give them the stock answers: catharsis, empowerment, escapism and so on. Less easy to explain is the fact that I gravitate toward films that devastate and unravel me completely – a good horror film will more often make me cry than make me shudder.
Kier-La Janisse, House of Psychotic Women