Comments for Notes From a Room

Comment on The central point by notesfromaroom

notesfromaroom — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:20:31 +0000

Nature is an infinite sphere whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

– Pascal

Comment on A minor Sisyphus by notesfromaroom

notesfromaroom — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:19:51 +0000

http://notesfromaroom.com/2008/12/12/you-dont-understand-the-facts

Comment on The existence of others by notesfromaroom

notesfromaroom — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:11:47 +0000

X tells me he doesn’t like to imagine other people’s lives, the minds of others. He can’t even think about it for too long. The very idea’s like a threat, he mutters. He can only relate to people who think exactly like him, he says, and of course no one does, there’s always a remainder, something that doesn’t quite fit, that threatens his peace of mind. The idea that other minds exist unsettles him, he says, horrifies him. He’s learned not to trust the similarities between himself and others, he says. So he puts a buffer between himself and others, he says. What else can he do? he asks. Even an empty fortress is better than the alternative, he says, the awful strangeness of another mind.

http://notesfromaroom.com/2009/05/09/the-minds-of-others

Comment on Better hope deferred than none by notesfromaroom

notesfromaroom — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:09:19 +0000

http://notesfromaroom.com/2009/03/22/hope

Comment on Freedom by notesfromaroom

notesfromaroom — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:52:39 +0000

http://notesfromaroom.com/2007/10/11/talking-head/

Comment on Leaders by Kelvin

Kelvin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:40:01 +0000

Though provoking post you have written. What a unique way to talk about leaders. I guess this goes to show that leadership is not a position but action. Someone must step up and be the leader of the group or everyone will just be lost and clueless. However, they can adventure out to learn something new.

Comment on A minor Sisyphus by notesfromaroom

notesfromaroom — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:31:09 +0000

If a man should register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth, and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

– Johnathan Swift

Comment on Possibilities by Joana Medina

Joana Medina — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:40:36 +0000

“each possibility is pregnant with possibilities”

I love that.

sorry to be a random, just ran into this blog. Lovely entry!

Comment on Circles by notesfromaroom

notesfromaroom — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:21:13 +0000

Last News About The Little Box

The little box which contains the world
Fell in love with herself
And conceived
Still another little box

The little box of the little box
Also fell in love with herself
And conceived
Still another little box

And so it went on forever

The world from the little box
Ought to be inside
The last offspring of the little box

But not one of the little boxes
Inside the little box in love with herself
Is the last one

Let’s see you find the world now

– Vasko Popa

Comment on What do I want? by notesfromaroom

notesfromaroom — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:58:52 +0000

And Yukel said again:

‘I will tell you of separation in words and in silence, so that the desire of words for words, and of silence for silence, will inspire your own as being and the world disintegrate, so that your desire for proud alliance will comfort you in the hours of misery when, with the zeal to live burnt out, our useless gestures yield to the wise resignation of the poor and the ascetic.’

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‘Having opposed God to God, Thought to Thought, Book to Book, you will have destroyed one by the other;
‘But God survives God, Thought outlives Thought, and the Book the Book.
‘It is in their survival that you will continue to provoke them.
‘The desert is followed by the desert, as death follows death.’

– Jabés (trans. R. Waldrop)