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Below are 20 journal entries, after skipping by the 40 most recent ones recorded in
gorgesefid's LiveJournal:
| Wednesday, June 13th, 2012 | |
| 10:41 pm | γηράσκω δʹ αἰεὶ πολλὰ διδασκóμενος as I grow old I am always learning many things. (Solon fr. 18) "As long as I was drinking by myself from the spring's water, it seemed sweet and good to me. But now it's become dirty and water is mixed with water. I'll drink from another spring rather than a river". (Theognis 959-962) Current Music: Throwing Muses |
| Tuesday, June 12th, 2012 | |
| 11:00 pm | Panyassis, fr. 21 Wine is mortals' finest gift from the gods, glorious wine: every song harmonizes with it, every dance, every delightful love. And every pain it expels from men's heart, so long as it is drunk in due measure. Current Music: Throwing Muses, Belly |
| Tuesday, June 5th, 2012 | |
| 8:42 pm | a Hal Hartley week. with Adrienne Shelly too. |
| Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 | |
| 9:39 pm | soooooooooooo overrated: The Night of the Hunter (1955). Bad, exaggerated acting, dumb script (especially toward the end), nonsensical (and too long) passages, cliché characters, etc. etc. And still some people actually *believe* imdb ratings! Ridiculous. |
| Friday, May 25th, 2012 | |
| 7:27 pm | Chinawoman beidzot, beidzot beidzot Latvijâ ........................................ |
| Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 | |
| 9:56 pm | |
| 9:48 pm | "The theorists of progress differ on the direction of progress, the rate and the nature of the changes that accompany it, even its principal agents. Nevertheless, all adhere to three key ideas: (1) a linear conception of time and the idea that history has a meaning, oriented towards the future; (2) the idea of the fundamental unity of humanity, all called to evolve in the same direction together; and (3) the idea that the world can and must be transformed, which implies that man asserts himself as sovereign master of nature. These three ideas originated from Christianity. But with the rise of science and technology in the seventeenth century, they were reformulated in secular terms. For the Greeks [/ Indo-Europeans], eternity alone is real. Authentic being is immutable: circular motion, which ensures the eternal return of same in a series of successive cycles, is the most perfect expression of the divine. If there are rises and falls, progress and decline, it is within a cycle inevitably followed by another (Hesiod’s theory of the succession of the ages, Virgil’s return of the golden age, [Buddhism, Hinduism, etc.]). In addition, the major determining factor comes from the past, not the future: the term arche refers above all to an origin (“archaic”) as an authority (“archonte,” “monarch”). With the Bible, history becomes an objectively knowable phenomenon, a dynamic of progress that aims, from the Messianic point of view, toward the advent of a better world. Genesis assigns man the mission of “dominating the Earth.” Temporality is the vector in terms of which the better must progressively reveal itself in the world. As a result, a historical event can have a saving role: God appears historically. Temporality, moreover, is directed towards the future, from Creation to the Second Coming, the Garden of Eden to the Last Judgment. The golden age no longer lies in the past, but at the end of times: history will end, and it will end well, at least for the saved. This linear temporality excludes any eternal return, any cyclic conception of history based on the succession of ages and seasons. (...)" (Alain de Benoist)That's why Christianity is the opposite of the ancient, real (Indo-)European way of thinking, the one I have chosen to live in and according to. |
| 8:38 pm | παλαιοτέροιο γὰρ αἰεὶ φάρμακόν ἐστιν ἔρωτος ἔρως νέος· οὐ γὰρ ὀλέσσαι ὁ χρόνος οἴδεν ἔρωτα, καὶ εἰ μάθε πάντα καλύπτειν. (For new love is ever the medicine for older love, since TIME KNOWS NOT HOW TO DESTROY LOVE even if he has learnt to hide all things - Nonnus, Dionysiaca XI-358ff) Current Music: Minimal Compact |
| Monday, May 14th, 2012 | |
| 9:12 pm | "man sâp galva" oops nê, nedrîkst vaidêt... |
| Saturday, May 12th, 2012 | |
| 7:12 pm | Βοῦς μοι ἐπὶ γλώσσῃ κρατερῷ ποδὶ λὰξ ἐπιβαíνων. (an ox steps on my tongue with his powerful foot.) Theognis 815) (proverbial statement used of those who cannot speak freely) |
| Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 | |
| 10:25 pm | four pages of vocabulary - my poor brain. |
| Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 | |
| 8:36 pm | Let us not forget the anonymous architects of winged words: (take the words alliterating in s- (= 2 x 4), take the ones alliterating in m- (=1+3 = 4) (two of each (s- and m-) repetitions of the same root:)and there's only one word left:which is the definition of what a "scolion" is (a drinking song) - and the main point of the poet.Current Mood: ancient |
| 12:38 am | La Mosquitera (Catalunya 2010) - re, ka pastāv labas katalāņu filmas, pat katalāņu valodā, ne tikai spāņu okupantu valodā. |
| Saturday, April 28th, 2012 | |
| 12:42 am | I don't get it - even that great Ferdowsi's Shâhnâme program I got yesterday doesn't really make this source useful for my book because it's lacking verse numbers, parallelism between original text and translation, any transcription (which I already would have expected to be incorrect anyway), etc. etc... :( Current Mood:  disappointed |
| Monday, April 23rd, 2012 | |
| 7:28 pm | ὦ πóτνια Νúξ, ὦ Διòς θúγατερ Ἔρσα καì σελάνας, ὦ τοῦ Κρóνου πáτερ Ἄκμον! |
| Sunday, April 22nd, 2012 | |
| 4:27 pm | so now we know. The Avengers movie will be about the war between Kree and Skrulls coming to Earth. Now I remember... http://marvel.wikia.com/Kree-Skrull http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kree-Skrul |
| Thursday, April 19th, 2012 | |
| 7:25 pm | ai, kā Māris pirms pāris dienām teica: "Tagad ir pavasaris vai rudens?". |
| Saturday, April 14th, 2012 | |
| 8:35 pm | divas bijušas vienā telpā, kur valda grunge mūzika un Nirvanas, nav jau katru dienu šāda situācija. Current Music: Tiny Vipers |
| Friday, April 13th, 2012 | |
| 8:14 pm | doma šorīt ap 8iem: jāju austrup baltis zirgis. Current Music: Nirvana |
| Thursday, April 12th, 2012 | |
| 11:01 pm | Kurt's anniversary, my anniversary, our anniversary. Now that's vernal. Current Music: Liz Durrett |