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27 Wednesday Apr 2022

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Once dead decomposition will begin with having to get rid of all the physical garbage left behind since the first day; splitting its territory into waste and compost, mindlessly waiting a long time on a bench for some dark edges of memory, the black needle in the haystack, contemplating the spores flying in the fog. Task accomplished of becoming an ant or honey, being reborn as a man in the middle of the desert, carving out a salvation for the soul as quickly as possible. Spiritual work ad aeternam finding the virgin angle from which to justify the decomposition, hearing the brilliance of the flint in the fire. Waking up, making clay. From the grain of salt of once sweat, erect the dam against the disbelievers and the mourners (among whom you unfortunately recognize those you love).

The world enters us and departs, just as language and image and idea are imprinted upon our consciousness, considered, forgotten, passed on, released.

In the meantime leave nothing to chance, to rickety episodes: to make the deep cellars transparent, to experiences, to the possibilities of humanity, for a new humanity.

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Terraforming the moon / Invent gravity traps, inhabit the stars.

22 Friday Apr 2022

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Cioran, Terraforming

Passover Moon 2022 seen with a Celestron telescope.

“At least 2 billion Earth-sized planets are believed to be habitable in our galaxy,” according to a study published by the American Academy of Sciences.

“This morning, after hearing an astronomer talk about billions of suns, I gave up washing myself: why wash again? » Cioran.

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Fomenko

12 Tuesday Apr 2022

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Baal Shem Tov, Fomenko, Gershom, Henri Guillemin, Howard Zinn

“When the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism, had a difficult task before him, he would go to a certain place in the woods, light a fire and meditate in prayer—and what he had set out to perform was done. When a generation later the “Maggid” of Meseritz was faced with the same task he would go to the same place in the woods and say: We can no longer light the fire, but we can still speak the prayers-and what he wanted done became reality. 

Again a generation later Rabbi Moshe Leib of Sassov had to perform this task. And he too went into the woods and said: We can no longer light a fire, nor do we know the secret meditations belonging to the prayer, but we do know the place in the woods to which it all belongs–and that must be sufficient; and sufficient it was. 

But when another generation had passed and Rabbi Israel of Rishin was called upon to perform the task, he sat down on his golden chair in his castle and said: We cannot light the fire, we cannot speak the prayers, we do not know the place, but we can tell the story of how it was done. 

And, the story which he told had the same effect as the actions of the other three.” Gershom G. Scholem.“ Schocken Books, 1954.

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Contre les âmes voutées

04 Monday Apr 2022

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Nietzsche

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Neither bow down or prostrate

17 Thursday Mar 2022

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Esther, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Purim, Star Wars

“All the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate would kneel and prostrate themselves before Haman, for so had the king commanded concerning him, but Mordechai would neither kneel nor prostrate himself” Esther 3:2

“But man seeks to bow before that only which is recognized by the greater majority, if not by all his fellowmen, as having a right to be worshipped; whose rights are so unquestionable that men agree unanimously to bow down to it. For the chief concern of these miserable creatures is not to find and worship the idol of their own choice, but to discover that which all others will believe in, and consent to bow down to in a mass. It is that instinctive need of having a worship in common that is the chief suffering of every man, the chief concern of mankind from the beginning of times. It is for that universality of religious worship that people destroyed each other by sword. Creating gods unto themselves, they forthwith began appealing to each other: “Abandon your deities, come and bow down to ours, or death to ye and your idols!” And so will they do till the end of this world; they will do so even then, when all the gods themselves have disappeared, for then men will prostrate themselves before and worship some idea.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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We will also watch this war on television

24 Thursday Feb 2022

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Russia, Ukraine, war

I see tanks, planes, with explosives, the terror of civilians. And I wonder: do we still need tanks when Russia, like America and China have scary nuclear arsenals? Am I witnessing a vintage invasion? Not caring about the so-called harsh sanctions from the middle of the world, except so far Israel, against the banks and Russian oligarchs, Putin will go on until the annexation of Ukraine, just the old way. He will impose yet another puppet government, using cynical speeches about Ukrainian Nazis. And we will also watch this war on television.

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Happiness in childhood

22 Tuesday Feb 2022

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Childhood, Melanie Klein, Pregnancy

I believe that the happiness enjoyed in childhood and the love of the good object that enriches personality are the foundation of the ability to enjoy and sublimate. The first happy relationship with the mother mitigates hatred and distress. Melanie Klein, Envy and Gratitude, 1957

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Therapy

21 Monday Feb 2022

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Audre Lorde

“Trying to see you

my eyes grow

confused

it is not your face

they are seeking

fingering through your spaces

like a hungry child

even now

I do not want

to make a poem

I want to make you

more and less

a part

from myself”

Audre Lorde

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The range of two

16 Wednesday Feb 2022

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Alice Walker, George Stefanescu, porridge

We alone can devalue gold

by not caring

if it falls or rises

in the marketplace.

wherever there is gold

there is a chain, you know,

and if your chain

is gold

so much the worse

for you.

Feathers, shells

and sea-shaped stones

are all as rare.

This could be our revolution:

to love what is plentiful

as much as

what’s scarce.

Alice Walker

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What do you do?

11 Friday Feb 2022

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Paul Léautaud, TUXEDO CAT

Somebody asked me the other day, “What do you do?” “I amuse myself by growing old,” I replied. “It’s a full-time job.

Paul Léautaud

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