''and now there is the internet: this is a pulpit for what anybody says, which gives pig ignorants their best occasion to foul our wells with extra information.'' alessandro gallenzi, ars poetastrica. ( j.g.nichols translation).
that passage in fernando pessoa's book of disquiet where he makes light of the gender controversy.
84 "lets suppose there's a girl with masculine gestures. an ordinary human creature will say, 'that girl acts like a boy.' another ordinary human creature, with some awareness that to speak is to tell, will say, 'that girl is a boy.' yet another, equally aware of the duties of expression, but inspired by a fondness for concision ( which is the sensual delight of thought ), will say, 'that boy.' i'll say, 'she's a boy', violating one of the basic rules of grammar — that pronouns must agree in gender and number with the nouns they refer to. and i'll have spoken correctly; i'll have spoken absolutely, photographically, outside the norm, the accepted, the insiped. i won't have spoken, i'll have told."
fernando pessoa, book of disquiet. made in to english by richard zenith.
"I own this discovery will pierce my heart; but as morality is best taught by shewing how little effect it had on the best of men, I will sacrifice the most virtuous names for the instruction of the present wicked generation;"
Excerpt From: Walpole, Horace. "Hieroglyphic Tales." Apple Books.
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"when the object of worship is to inquire an interview with, and control over, impure spirits, a dead body is necessary. the adept is also to be alone, at midnight, in a cemetery or place where bodies are burnt. seated on the corpse he is to make the usual offerings." ( 55 minutes into occult theocracy on dreamvoice)
edith starr miller, lady queenborough, occult theocracy.
following quote is taken from gertrude steins first lecture of four on social engineering titled narration. in this lecture she lays the ground for what follows in the other three. here she explains how long it takes to change society
"it is a rather curious thing that it should take a hundred years to change anything that is to change something, it is the human habit to think in centuries and centuries are more or less a hundred years ...
it is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meanings that they had before, ...
so then there we are a hundred years does more or less make a century and this is determined by the fact that it includes a grandparent to a grandchild and that that is what makes it definitely different one time from another time ...
i am quite sure that the world's history the world made up of human beings is made up in this way of about always a century and it is determined that imade by the natural filling up of time from a grandparent to a grandchild. ...
that is what narrative is that twenty-five years roll around so quickly but that one hundred years do not roll around at all but that they end. ...
but before going on to this matter i have just been thinking that the civil war in america was another case of about a century, seventeen sixty to eighteen sixty again made a grandfather to a granddaughter a grandmother to a grandson and so as usual everything changed as it always has done very likely it will do so again, very likely a century every so often will do what a century always has done. ...
literature we may say is what goes on all the time history is what goes on from time to time and this is what is terribly important to think about in connection with narrative."
trivia, all trivia, and more trivia. three variations on a theme, written by logan pearsall smith. his essay at an answer to the question what is life.
a collection of notes, aphorisms, and paragraph length stories.
a man, the narrator, leaves his house goes places meets people does things. all the while wondering what the meaning of life is. near the end of his ramblings he decides on an answer to his question.
