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. […]
sic
14 June 2025, around 20.01.
Philosophy is about people in clothes, not about the soul of man. —T.E. Hulme (‘Cinders’ in Speculations, p. 229)
surdus
19 June 2025, around 12.22.
Lastly, considering that the very thoughts we have while awake may also occur while we sleep without any of them being at that time true, I resolved to pretend that all the things that ever entered my mind were no more true than the illusions of my dreams. —Descartes (Discourse on the Method, trans. Cottingham […]
passim
23 June 2025, around 13.18.
…the continual discover of fresh types of nonsense, unsystematic though their classification and mysterious though their explanation is too often allowed to remain, has done on the whole nothing but good. Yet we, that is, even philosophers, set some limits to the amount of nonsense that we are prepared to admit we talk… 1 —J.L. […]
tonic
27 June 2025, around 15.22.
True joy and happiness lie in the simple enjoyment of what is good and not in the kind of false pride that enjoys happiness because others are excluded from it. Anyone who thinks that he is happy because his situation is better than other people’s or because he is happier and more fortunate than they, […]