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Aug 24Liked by Philip Traylen

Outrageously brilliant.

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Thank you Patris!

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Aug 26Liked by Philip Traylen

That’s a good pick that was already picked

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Spinoza is ripe for Somebody to stroll in the eves of his words. My attention is good enough to read the propositions, and see where I am then after. He was so often right that Anthony Dimassio says he was right about the animal in the room who makes our decisions. About feeling in a visceral way being much in advance of thought, and ahead of identifiable emotions. S seems to me an exemplar for a different authentic than charisma. In which you pride yourself on being right because for the loss of a nail, the house was lost. Here are sidebars I wld look for in a close reading: did he take a walk during the writing of this One? And was he imaging a year 2000 elsewhere? Because anyone doing this much world building, i think their thoughts run up to our crumby shores...

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thanks for this beautiful response, Nathan. There's actually this insane map of all the prepositions, or rather of everything, within the Ethics, connected to everything else, though I haven't figured out if it's useful yet: https://ethica.bc.edu/#/graph

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I love you despite myself - Quasimodo

I love you because of myself - Graham Greene

I love you despite yourself - Nancy "Sikes"

I love you because of yourself - Mary Magdalene

Because my gravestone says *she used the internet* I am thinking about Disney's Hunchback, Jesus Christ Superstar, OLIVER!, and some disturbing quote superimposed on a stock photo of inspiring trees.

Despite my gravestone, I am still longing for a satisfactory search result.

Thanks Phil - this felt weighty.

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hey, you split it by gender there! down at least one of the axes!

Thank you for reading as always Gadzooks. I think gravestone creativity is important, I guess; there are some very nice ones at the main graveyard in Prague, I forgot what it's called, Jiří Menzel's is nice, and I saw one with a Moomin on it, which is sort of Jesus or Disney adjacent..

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I quite agree. I find it shocking that we live in a society that would countenance physician assisted suicide, but allows the local authorities to dictate the artistic limits of the tomb!

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Aug 25Liked by Philip Traylen

Koans that make a mockery of reality, thereby validating it. Thank you.

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and thank you for reading! I hope that is what I'm doing.

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Titanic was released in 1997.

And 1992 was the 80th anniversary of that wonderfully doomed ship.

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crap, haha (must have mixed it up with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanica)

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What a week. This is blatantly untrue. I grew up in Kamala neighbourhood and Leonard Cohen was the leader of the country band at Westmount High School but Leonard's muse was Israel Lazarovich who came to my school and read his poetry.

Irving Layton did not mince words.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Layton

For my Brother Jesus, Balls for a one-armed juggler, love poems of Irving Layton and of course the TV Shows on CBC

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.3592614

Defending dirt and slamming smut. 64 years ago.

I am old senile and terminally autistic and happy.

Thanks for the memories.

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Poetry and philosophy both suck, but you're okay.

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haha! and cheers

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