Tray #5
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iambarr | March 24, 2010
When Man first wandered in the dark forest, he was Nature’s serf; he offered tribute and prayer to the winds, and the lightning, and the rain, to the cave-lion, which seized his burrow for its lair, to the mammoth, which devoured his scanty crops. But as time passed on, he ventured, to rebel; he made [...]
iambarr | December 12, 2009
Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. -Alfred North Whitehead
iambarr | June 24, 2009
“Dear attractive woman number 2, only once in my life have I responded to a person the way I’ve responded to you, but I’ve forgotten when it was or even if it was in fact me that responded. I may not know much, but I know that the wind sings your name endlessly, although with [...]
iambarr | December 14, 2008
we spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. we were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintances were in the same condition. there was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and [...]
iambarr | December 11, 2008
“the paradigms of apocalypse continue to lie under our ways of making sense of the world. thus, for example, the great systems of western philosophy – such as christianity or marxism – make sense of the world by imagining a future in which the world is fundamentally different, in which our world has ended forever.”
iambarr | December 4, 2008
That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is much the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of [...]
iambarr | November 26, 2008
the apocalyptic revelation at the heart of the tragic has to do with a sense that no God or gods are looking down on the world to see that justice is done, or that, if there are gods, they are profoundly careless, indifferent, even sadistic.
iambarr | November 8, 2008
“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. I had no intercourse with the world at that time and I imitated non of its many inhabitants who act in this manner. Quite an [...]
