The agreeable eye

an eudæmonistarchives

More specifically concerning: contrast

self-as-character

16 May 2016, around 14.14.

This a juxtaposition of two quotations about self presentation, from Erving Goffman and Simone Weil.

Crambe repetita (47)

15 November 2017, around 6.19.

Shen Fu, Six Records of a Floating Life.

thematic

23 June 2023, around 12.04.

Theme: Origins. It was somewhere on Twitter, I think, that I saw a bookseller comment on household book displays, on the ways people live with and around books. It was around the time that I found out the library supply store does not require an institutional account (or institutional quantities) to purchase bookends and other […]

chiaroscuro

20 June 2025, around 9.03.

Hinter unseren Gedanken, wahren und falschen, liegt immer wieder ein dunkler Grund, den wir erst später ins Licht ziehen und als einen Gedanken aussprechen können. Behind our thoughts, true and false, there is always to be found a dark background, which we are only later able to bring into the light and express as a […]

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