February 2012
29 posts
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"Jorge Luis Borges and Medieval Germanic... →
M.J. Toswell, Western Ontario University
In the last third of his life, Jorge Luis Borges agreed to a lot of interviews. In nearly every single one, he discussed his love of Old English, and in most he added in a discussion of Old Norse. [1] Thus, for example, in one interview from 1968, with Rita Guibert, the following statements occur:
(From Guibert’s introduction): “When I accompanied him...
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"Cimmeria"
It was gloomy land that seemed to hold All winds and clouds and dreams that shun the sun, With bare boughs rattling in the lonesome winds, And the dark woodlands brooding over all, Not even lightened by the rare dim sun Which made squat shadows out of men; they called it Cimmeria, land of Darkness and deep Night.
It was so long ago and far away I have forgotten the very name men...
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“Herr Mannelig”, In Extremo…
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Humanos Nulodimensionais →
Aderimos às imagens desde o momento em que concordamos com a sua não-referencialidade; e as vidas tornam-se bidimensionais, depois unidimensionais, e, por fim, nulodimensionais. Quando seres humanos tridimensionais são reduzidos a um ponto (um número da estatística, um cliente de banco, um ponto ou um traço nas cotas de audiência, um contribuinte, um número de cadastro, etc.) são, naquela...
Contraversão: Masks of the Illuminati: os... →
contraversao:
Por Filipe Siqueira
Robert Anton Wilson era um cara absurdamente doidão. Misturou Psicologia, ocultismo e ficção científica de uma forma única, e facilmente pode ser classificado como uma das mentes mais brilhantes da rica contracultura do século passado. Morreu há cincos anos e faz… LEIA MAIS»
January 2012
52 posts
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“1 I reached out my hand; England’s rivers turned and flowed the other way;...”
– “The Profecy of the Raven King” (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell)
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"We are small but we are many, we are many we are...
Greetings, members of NATO. We are Anonymous.
In a recent publication, you have singled out Anonymous as a threat to “government and the people”. You have also alleged that secrecy is a ‘necessary evil’ and that transparency is not always the right way forward.
Anonymous would like to remind you that the government and the people are, contrary to the supposed foundations of “democracy”,...
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Best anti-SOPA post ever!
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Hello...
In honor of the actions of Anonymous….
AVE ERIS! AVE DISCORDIA!
Athelstan Psalter online - Medieval and Earlier... →
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The Assassins...
ACROSS THE LUSTER OF the desert & into the polychrome hills, hairless & ochre violet dun & umber, at the top of a dessicate blue valley travelers find an artificial oasis, a fortified castle in saracenic style enclosing a hidden garden.
As guests of the Old Man of the Mountain Hassan-i Sabbah they climb rock-cut steps to the castle. Here the Day of Resurrection has already come &...
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NIETZSCHE & THE DERVISHES...
RENDAN, “THE CLEVER ONES.” The sufis use a technical term rend (adj. rendi, pl. rendan) to designate one “clever enough to drink wine in secret without getting caught”: the dervish version of “Permissible Dissimulation” (taqiyya, whereby Shiites are permitted to lie about their true affiliation to avoid persecution as well as advance the purpose of their...
"Why I'm a Pirate!" →
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: The Exegesis of Philip... →
hmhbooks:
The definitive presentation of Philip K. Dick’s brilliant, and epic, final work is hitting the social sphere.
With the new Exegesis BookPulse app, THE EXEGESIS has become a whole new experience, interactive and extra-informative. You can:
• Enjoy the hundreds of existing annotations…
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