Dialogue on the Threshold
27 March 2015

Form and mere matter

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It is hardly an exaggeration to say that in Plato, in spite of his wonderful savour of literary freshness, there is nothing absolutely new:...
14 March 2015

His manner of life

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Aut lego vel scribo, doceo scrutorve sophian: obsecro celsithronum nocte dieque meum. vescor, poto libens, rithmizans invoco musas, dormi...
02 March 2015

Russia

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'In my day,' said the Sergeant, 'half the scholars in the National Schools were walking around with enough disease in their go...
08 February 2015

The level of paroxysm

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First of all, nationalism is paranoia—collective and individual paranoia. As a collective paranoia, nationalism is born out of fear and env...
19 December 2014

Love and Wheat / Wheat and Death

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GRUSHENKO: To die . . . before the harvest. The crops, the grains, fields of rippling wheat. Wheat. All there is in life is wheat. . . . O...
06 November 2014

The venom of our age (2)

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Nationalism is the venom of modern history. Nothing is more bestially absurd than the readiness of human beings to incinerate or slaughter ...
17 October 2014

Ego diurnus / ego nocturnus

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Language of Dreams. [...] It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, ...
12 October 2014

The venom of our age

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Nationalism is the venom of our age. It has brought Europe to the edge of ruin. It drives the new states of Asia and Africa like crazed lem...
09 October 2014

Maculae

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Bellarmin (1) makes sweating and crowding one of the chief torments of Hell, which Lessius (2) (no doubt after an actual and careful sur...
01 September 2014

Een bleeke, weeke made

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Ik ben de hazel-noot. - Een bleeke, weeke made bewoont mijn kamer, en die blind is, en die knaagt. Ik ben die van mijn zaad een duisterni...
27 August 2014

The great anti-babel of metaphysical Science

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Preparatory to the great anti-babel of metaphysical Science all sorts of materials psychological and logical must be brought together/some ...
11 August 2014

Âmes écrevisses

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Il existe des âmes écrevisses reculant continuellement vers les ténèbres, rétrogradant dans la vie plutôt qu'elles n'y avancent, em...

L'enfer c'est les autres

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No matter how insipid a man might be, he is more terrifying than the most demonic character from Dostoevsky. (...) I would rather travel th...
10 August 2014

The torments of beanismus

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11. [...] Nam videmus eos qui vagantes, cantantes, cursitantes, vociferantes, balantes, bacchantes, clamitantes, vorantes, potantes, ingurg...
11 June 2014

Polyolbiosis

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Ships, and their Picturesqueness — / Have I noticed the approximation to Round and Rondure, in the Square and triangular Forms — and that p...
08 June 2014

The cockroach in Russian literature (6): Dostoevsky (3)

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Один из двух мужчин, бывших в комнате, был еще очень молодой человек, лет двадцати пяти, тот самый Обноскин, о котором давеча упоминал дядя...
05 June 2014

The "Malbrough theme" (тема Мальбрука) (4)

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On peut, à la cour, prendre pied de deux façons: dans les nuées, on est auguste ; dans la boue, on est puissant. Dans le premier cas, on e...
02 March 2014

Nations policées, pays incultes

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Ne sortons point de notre continent, tant que la terre y est habitable. Les peuples barbares sont venus autrefois du Nord, inonder le Midi ...
02 February 2014

La géographie magique d'une planète inconnue

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Aussi bien, c'est une impression douloureuse, à mesure qu'on va plus loin, de perdre, ville à ville et pays à pays, tout ce bel uni...
29 September 2013

Shadows that in darkness dwell

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 John Dowland (1563-1626), Flow My Tears ( Second Booke of Songes or Ayres , 1600) 5 Hark! you shadows that in darkness dwell, L...
24 September 2013

The cicatrix

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Scars can be literal or metaphorical, physical or psychical. The scar is the memory of the wound, imprinted on the warp and weft of the fle...
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21 September 2013

De daemonibus (3): species and habitats

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[Thracian] Are there many species ( γένη ) of daemons, Marcus, I asked?    “ Many indeed ,” he said, ...
21 August 2013

The narrowing chambers of hell

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"In each of the hot and secret countries to which that man went he kept a harem, he tortured witnesses, he amassed shameful gold; but ...
02 July 2013

Husk and kernel

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The foundation of any national character is human nature. A national character is simply a particular colouring taken on by human nature, a...
18 June 2013

De daemonibus (2): physiological processes

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[Thracian:] And I asked him whether daemons were endowed with affectivity ( ἐμπαθεῖς ). “Yes, indeed,” he said, “just as some of them even ...
17 June 2013

De daemonibus (1): corporeality

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Timotheus: How then, if they are not corporeal (μὴ σῶμα ὄντες), are they visible to our external vision (τοῖς ἐκτὸς ὄμασσιν)?  Thracian...
16 June 2013

The soul's katastasis

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ᾍδης λέγεται ἡ ἐκ τοῦ ὁρωμένου πρὸς τὸ ἀειδὲς καὶ ἀθέατον κατάστασις τῆς ψχῆς. οὐδὲν γὰρ ἄλλο οἱ παρά τε τῶν ἔξωθεν, καὶ τῆς θέιας γραφῆς σ...
05 June 2013

Sleep and death

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Καθεύδοντα καὶ νεκρὸν, τὸν ἐν ἁμαρτίαις φησί. Καὶ γὰρ δυσωδίας πνεῖ, ὡς  ὁ νεκρὸς, καὶ ἀνενέργητός ἐστιν, ὡς ὁ καθεύδων, καὶ οὐδὲν ὁρᾷ, ὡς ...
20 April 2013

La peur de l'enfer

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Et puis, il y a cette histoire curieuse que rapporte Ségur et qui me paraît vraie : « En 1787, dans une auberge près de Moulins, un vie...
11 February 2013

Apophany

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Vivre dans le monde comme dans un immense musée d'étrangeté, plein de jouets curieux, bariolés, qui changent d'aspect, que quelque-...
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20 January 2013

The twittering dead

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Of the ferryman across the "Waters of Death" there is no trace in the Old Testament. Spirits are supposed rather to "fly awa...
09 January 2013

Titivillus

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Des démonologues du moyen âge mentionnent le démon Tintinillus comme ayant pour mission de recueillir dans une grand sac les versets des ps...
30 September 2012

External and internal darkness

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Tenebrae apud inferos, duplices. Illas Corporis voco, et exteriores, has Animi et interiores. Illae Corporis, tenebras Aegyptias, horribil...
17 August 2012

Ici parmi la bourbe et le fient du monde

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La présomption est notre maladie naturelle et originelle. La plus calamiteuse et frêle de toutes les créatures c'est l'homme, et qu...
13 August 2012

De stultorum natura (3)

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He hath a soule drownd in a lumpe of flesh, or is a peece of earth that Prometheus put not halfe his proportion of fire into. A thing that...
22 July 2012

The Vogouls (6) Modern poetry (2)

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Youwan Shestalow ( Юван Николаевич Шесталов ) (1937-2011) ērγəŋ mākemn, mōjtəŋ mākemn ōsta, ōsta joχtŭmākem. wojkan χāľkwet rāmγantē...

The Vogouls (5) Modern poetry

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Youwan Shestalow ( Юван Николаевич Шесталов ) (1937-2011) χōtal śarmat χuriŋ āγi kit saγaγe saγijāγe. āŋkwatike - simkem tōli, wōrkem ...
09 July 2012

Universality of the belief in hell (6)

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According to Jochelson (1), among the Koryak there exist two conceptions of the abode of the departed. One soul of the deceased may rise to...
08 July 2012

The Vogouls (4) Sacred poetry

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A Vogul of the northern Ural. ( Collection of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography ). M. A. Czaplicka, Aboriginal S...
04 July 2012

The language(s) of the dead

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De Lingua etiam et sermone Mortuorum oriuntur quaestiunculae. Mortuorum Dialogos finxere multi, sed qua lingua colloquuntur mortui, nescio....
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