Dialogue on the Threshold
29 January 2016

Metaphor of a bad mind

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I am inclined to suspect, that all these several finders of truth are the very identical men, who are by others called the finders of gold....
18 January 2016

Ruin is the throne where he sits

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(...) wrd.bt ḫpṯt arṣ.tspr.by rdm.arṣ idk.al.ttn pnm.tk.qrth hmry.mk.ksu ṯbth.ḫḫ.arṣ nḥlth. (...) (...) and go down to the charne...
07 January 2016

Die Sprache des Traumes

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Im Traume, und schon in jenem Zuſtande des Deliriums, der meiſt vor dem Einſchlafen vorhergeht, ſcheint die Seele eine ganz andre Sprache z...
01 January 2016

Crepitus ventris essetne spiritualis?

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 Crepitus ventris essetne spiritualis? R. Ita, probatur sic: 1. Quæ invisibilia sunt, spiritualia sunt. Atqui crepitus sunt invisibiles. ...

Quid est crepitus?

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Quid est crepitus? R. Crepitus est flatus ventris, quem natura provida sanitatis tuendæ causa per podicem ejicit: materia ejus existens...
12 December 2015

Deus nocturnus

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Nocturnum deum Varro in saturis perpetuo sopore et ebrietate torpidum introduxit.  M. Terentius Varronis Saturarum Menippearum Reliquiae ...
03 December 2015

Originaux et excentriques

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En Angleterre (surtout en Écosse), les hommes domptés par une religion de fer et courbés sous le puritanisme, ne peuvent s'évader que p...
11 November 2015

The decay of learning

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The abolition of Latin as the universal learned language, and the introduction in its place of the parochialism of national literatures, ha...
27 September 2015

Hegelianism

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Wherever the spirit of God is extruded from our human calculations, an unconscious substitute takes its place. In Schopenhauer we find the ...
24 September 2015

De quelques phénomènes du sommeil

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Il peut paroître extraordinaire, mais il est certain que le sommeil est non seulement l’état le plus puissant, mais encore le plus lucide d...
20 September 2015

The plurality of hells

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According to these manifold distinctions in evil, and their nearer or more remote distances from one another, are the several hells divided...
08 September 2015

The regression of listening

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In one of his essays, Aldous Huxley has raised the question of who, in a place of amusement, is really being amused. With the same justice,...
19 July 2015

Occasionall Melancholie

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And for her, some sicknesses, in the declination of her yeeres, had opened her to an overflowing of Melancholie; Not that she ever lay unde...
16 July 2015

Hives in hell

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His firm stanzas hang like hives in hell Or what hell was, since now both heaven and hell Are one, and here, O terra infidel. Wallace ...
13 June 2015

Plutonis Regia

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Socrates. On this account, Hermogenes, let us say, that not one of those there is willing to come hither, not even the Syrens themselves;...
25 May 2015

The library of Nara

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Apud Japonios, in civitate Narad, vel Nara, templum est augustissimum, quod Cobocui nominatur, Xacae sacrum, a cujus latere Bonzii, eorum s...
24 May 2015

The libraries of Hell

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Frontispiece, Eloge de l'enfer. Ouvrage critique, historique, et moral. A la Haye, Chez Pierre Gosse Junior, Libraire de S. A. R. 17...

Traumworte

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Im Traum, & auch lange nach dem Erwachen, können uns Traumworte die höchste Bedeutung zu haben scheinen. Ist nicht die gleiche Illusio...
23 May 2015

The Voguls

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Vogul psychology Vogul cosmology Vogul theology Vogul eschatology Vogul poetry
10 May 2015

Our present Patriotism

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Since Nonsense files with greater Celerity, and makes greater Impression than Reason; though no particular Species of Nonsense is so durabl...
04 May 2015

La biblioteca

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Si el honor y la sabiduría y la felicidad no son para mí, que sean para otros. Que el cielo exista, aunque mi lugar sea el infierno. Que yo...
26 April 2015

The sole proof of our heterogeneity

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Diese Angst in der Welt ist aber der einzige Beweis unserer Heterogenität. This anxiety in the world is, however, the sole proof of our he...
02 April 2015

Plenty of time

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In einem Tag kann man die Schrecken der Hölle erleben; es ist reichlich genug Zeit dazu. In one day you can experience the horrors of hell...
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...
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