Reflect

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Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lying In An Extra-Moral Sense”

“What is truth? a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short, a sum of human relations which were poetically and rhetorically heightened, transferred, and adorned, and after long use seem solid, canonical, and binding to a nation. Truths are illusions about which it has been forgotten that they are illusions, worn-out metaphors without sensory impact, coins which have lost their image and now can be used only as metal, and no longer as coins.”

Nietzsche, “On Rhythm”

“The magic of rhythm consists in a quite elementary symbolism by which the regular and the orderly imposes itself on our understanding as a higher realm, a life above and beyond this irregular life … The more excitable and natural a person is, the more rhythm acts upon him as a compulsion to repeat the rhythm and produces that ‘blind attunement prior to all judgment’; this compulsion is usually associated with pleasure, but it can tear at souls and overpower them so suddenly that it is more like a painful paroxysm.” 

Holy shit, Nietzsche, where have you been all my life?

I am getting so excited about the possibility of going back to school that I can barely contain myself.

If I don’t get in/funded to any schools, there will be mad weeping and gnashing of teeth over here.

There is nothing more terrible than a student hitting on you.

Birds

One of the 4-6 blue jays that come to my balcony on a daily basis has a deformed bill. He seems to manage okay and can still pick up the shelled peanuts I put out. As long as the bill doesn’t get worse, I assume he will be fine. But… I still want to cry every time I see him. I hope the other jays are nice to him.