For 2023, a new thread of sentences.
1. “I walked past the brothel as if past the house of a beloved.”
— The Diaries of Franz Kafka, translated by Ross Benjamin #KafkaDiaries
1. “I walked past the brothel as if past the house of a beloved.”
— The Diaries of Franz Kafka, translated by Ross Benjamin #KafkaDiaries
2. From 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater' by Thomas De Quincey
3. आशासु शीतलतरासु पयोदतोयै-
राशासिताप्तिविवशेषु च सज्जनेषु ।
नैशाकरोदयविधौ निशि मध्यमायां
क्लेशापहस्त्रिजगतां त्वमिहाविरासी: ॥२॥
राशासिताप्तिविवशेषु च सज्जनेषु ।
नैशाकरोदयविधौ निशि मध्यमायां
क्लेशापहस्त्रिजगतां त्वमिहाविरासी: ॥२॥
4. a great descriptor that conveys बीभत्स : "the mephitic stench from the bilge"
5. Kafka’s efforts to seek impossible intimacies by means of careful observations…
6. Never ceases to amaze me how extensively ancient Indians kept thinking/arguing/disputing/reframing the question of: what does **meaning** mean? Where does meaning emerge from? Who lends meaningfulness to meaning?
7. a phoneme of the Gods is pregnant with recommendations
8. What distinguishes one sentence from another?
ākānkṣa, Divergence of Expectations
ākānkṣa, Divergence of Expectations
9. "As Karl Guthke pointed out in The Gender of Death (1999), while Death is feminine in other languages, its masculine gender in German allowed artists to imagine the ‘boneman’ as bridegroom, seducer, rapist."
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