More specifically concerning: ignorance
pseudaphoristica (3)
17 June 2003, around 10.20.
improbability.
Montaigne 1.16
1 May 2015, around 6.30.
The Gunpowder plot conspirators, Crispin de Passe the Elder 1605 via Giornale Nuovo (ca. 2007) The recurring theme of willfulness, and the conflation of cowardice and ignorance as two pernicious forms of weakness one can, in part, lay at the feet of Nature, but only in part: It is reasonable indeed to see difference between […]
the other side
10 August 2024, around 12.55.
Yoko Tawada’s Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel (i.e., Paul Celan und der chinesische Engel) has a promising start – the patient narrator providing a disorienting sense of isolation/alienation at once physical, intellectual, and emotional – but I had to set it aside. As others have noted, the novella draws heavily on the work of […]