What if we introduce a second "axis of destiny": sense of self-importance? Does increasing strangeness correlate with heightened self-importance, and hypernormalization with decrease in same? I think not—there are grandiose normies and extremely self-effacing eccentrics...

Arthur Rimbaud, 1873: “La vraie vie est ailleurs.” Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2025: ”The wish to be context-free often came in the wake of an unresolvable pretext, which was where real life was."

Wikipedia, being ostensibly democratic yet controlled by a relatively small group of faceless far-left ideologues, is a microcosm of the American political system.

Thomas Wright

John Galt Yes. Educated people today will either claim that well-written prose poorly written or are embarrased to admit they can't read it; the “difficult” texts they feel smart reading are just highly conceptual and full of jargon that they've mastered. They decode; they don't read.

Text 1 is the received text in Clement’s Stromata of Heraclitus B42. What follows are various past attempts to alter the text to make more sense of the fragment. Since the dispute is only over the last few words, I have translated the first four words in a bland, anodyne

Aphorisms on breeding, caste, law etc. Hitherto untranslated (?) excerpts from the notebooks. Link in reply.

In search of the suppressed premise

"I saw--" I'm going to stop you right there. x.com/engeignos/stat…

The Stone Choir Septuagint Wisdom Literature is available wherever you enjoy podcasts. stone-choir.com/the-septuagint…

Fascinating.

"Control" (noun and verb) in Johnson's Dictionary

"Wield" in Johnson's Dictionary

Heidegger analyzed Augustine's theory of time from Confessions Book XI. The text is in German; I've produced a translation linked below for those interested.

A reader-friendlier version of the 2005 text Land mentioned in his recent interview, "Against Numerology"

'The Unicorn Rests in a Garden' - Unknown Tapestry Artist (French, fl.late 15thc) , from the Unicorn Tapestries , c.(1945 - 1505 ) #MiddleAges #art #unicorn