@graywacke.bsky.social

@graywacke.bsky.social

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“It is this common mind that binds the whole world together; & all the world is mind.” - from V Woolf diaries, ~1903 I post on books. Just books. And not that many.

What is lost here collects up there. / I do not mean only dominion and wealth, subject to the vagaries of fickle Fortune. I mean also what is beyond Fortune's power to give or take: there is many a reputation up there which, little by little, time has consumed down here like a moth. There, too, are countless prayers and vows made to God by us sinners. / The tears and sighs of lovers, the useless time lost in gaming, the chronic idleness of ignorant men, the empty plans which know no rest, the vain desires are in such numbers that they clutter almost the whole place. In short, no matter what you ever lost here you would find if you went up there.
“…because they lack the basic, human, animal resilience - the pluck and imagination - to stay stable - whole - within their own ridiculously fragile sense of self, which means they feel duty-bound to guard and police everything - everything: language, art, freedom. Their identity - their preciousness, their "other"ness, their demented particularity - becomes their sense of victimhood, their victimhood spawns self-righteousness, their self-righteousness spawns their own mealy-mouthed form of bullying. “