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Monthly Archives: August 2012
2012-08-24 12:47:18 +0000
Ever feel that you have betrayed the most fundamental essence of the core of the core of the core of your soul? Yeah, me neither…
Theories of being
I am in Venice.
I am in Pretoria.
I am in a miniskirt.
I am in chains.
I am in suspense.
I am in vitro.
I am in ovo.
Today’s spam has some high-end ingredients
unctuous bone marrow atop a perfectly cooked grass fed piece of ribeye Seventh course: Plum sorbet melon seltzer melon sea salt ad white muntock peppercorn I could have eaten three or fours of these palette cleansers Eighth course: White chocolate pavé raspberries milk chocolate cream coconut foam soy salt and pink peppercorn My usual insouciance for chocolate receded upon tasting the velvety pavé The petite fours delivered on a trolley of all things made me want to genuflect to the pastry chef.
2012-08-24 10:40:28 +0000
Time for more explository writing.
2012-08-23 16:53:41 +0000
Anything that is an object of desire is alive.
2012-08-23 13:27:55 +0000
Every time you use a word an angel dies.
2012-08-23 13:16:26 +0000
Time is not food.
autopathy, n. (Excessive) feeling for oneself; an instance of this.
Compare deuteropathy n. For Hellenistic Greek αὐτοπαθής a sense ‘speaking from one’s own feeling or experience’ is implied by the derivative adverb αὐτοπαθῶς. Now rare.
1647 H. More Philos. Poems i. iii. lxvi, Base fear proceeds from weak Autopathy.
1647 H. More Philos. Poems (note) Autopathy denotates the being self-strucken; to be sensible of what harms us, rather than what is absolutely evill.
1878 Fraser’s Mag. 17 262 A writer who, by cultivating his sympathies and weeding out his autopathies, might perhaps have grown into a sort of English Saint-Beuve.
1883 L. F. Ward Dynamic Sociol. II. xi. 371 In more natural contrast with autopathy, there might..be substituted for [the word] sympathy the allied expression altropathy.
1923 Jrnl. Philos. 20 92 It would certainly be quite as wide of the mark to reduce altruism to mere sympathetic joy and sorrow as to reduce egoism to ‘autopathy’.
1951 Yale Law Jrnl. 60 59 Autopathy… is often crudely melodramatic, finding..suffering and resolution in some otherwise very trivial swirls of the passing flux.
Etymology: Originally < Hellenistic Greek αὐτοπάθεια one’s own experience < αὐτοπαθής (of pronouns) reflexive ( < ancient Greek αὐτο- auto- comb. form1 + -παθής -path comb. form) + -εια -y suffix3. In later use probably independently re-formed < auto- comb. form1 + -pathy comb. form.
2012-08-23 10:58:13 +0000
The Nodularity of Human Relationships