The agreeable eye

an eudæmonistarchives

More specifically concerning: flowers

transparencies

29 April 2008, around 13.24.

Looking out the window of the coffee shop onto the overcast concrete, it seemed to have already become a picture, flat and filtered and filmy and flimsy. The sense of proportion was unmarred, but judging depth was a matter of relative position rather than perception, and a careless move might have scratched the surface, leaving […]

beautiful-good-true

11 April 2011, around 16.06.

Sow seeds for flowers right now, I thought this spring, and sowed many more than usual

Crambe repetita (47)

15 November 2017, around 6.19.

Shen Fu, Six Records of a Floating Life.

adumbral

19 March 2024, around 10.26.

But why should gold, or corn, or labour, be the standard measure of value, more than coals or iron?—more than cloth, soap, candles, and the other necessaries of the labourer—why, in short, should any commodity, or all commodities together, be the standard when such a standard is itself subject to fluctuation in value? —David Ricardo […]

disjointed

19 June 2024, around 4.08.

…this element itself is neither living nor dead, present nor absent: it spectralizes. It does not belong to ontology, to the discourse on the Being of beings, or to the essence of life or death. It requires, then, what we call, to save time and space rather than just to make up a word, hauntology. […]

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