More specifically concerning: metaphor
housekeeping
14 November 2011, around 14.43.
Adorno laments the writer’s living situation.
Crambe repetita (25)
21 December 2012, around 5.03.
Margaret Cavendish, Sociable Letters.
a definite achievement
6 January 2013, around 7.01.
Wittgenstein on organizing one’s library
gutsiness
12 August 2024, around 10.45.
…if we are to understand their world, we must try to project ourselves into minds very remote from our own and endowed with these unfamiliar powers. A world in which men naturally talk of the lip of a cup, the teeth of a rake, the mouth of a river, a neck of land, handfuls of […]
impatience with the absolute
1 October 2025, around 10.48.
Were all the translations of a poem into all possible languages to add together their various shades of meaning and, correcting each other by a kind of mutual retouching, to give a more and more faithful image of the poem they translate, they would yet never succeed in rendering the inner meaning of the original. […]