Postmodern Wisdom & A Change Of Direction
October 17th 2009 10:05
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Bringing together influences from four continents
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From Yoko Ono:
Q: How do you define hate and love?
A: The distinction between hate and love is all in your head. When you wish to make yourself ill, you think of hate. When you wish to make yourself healthy, you think of love.
Q: Where is home?
A: Anywhere you decide to make it home.
A: Dear Yoko, what are your beliefs about 2012?
Q: I think it will be another beautiful year.
From Soren Kierkegaard:
Altogether I hate these pseudo-scholars--how often at a party have I not deliberately sat down by some elderly spinster-lady who feeds on repeating family news, and with the utmost gravity listened to her chatter.
and:
I prefer talking with old persons of the female sex who peddle family gossip; next, with the insane--and last, with very sensible people.
On his unique use of punctuation:
In a scientific paper I use my punctuation differently from the way I use it in rhetorical writing. [...] it becomes more evolved. What particularly occupies me is the architectonic-dialectical phenomenon that the eye sees the structure of the sentences which at the same time, when one reads them aloud, becomes their rhythm--and in my mind's eye I always visualise a reader reading aloud.--That is the reason why I use commas sparingly. For instance, where I want a subdivision under a semicolon, I do not place a comma between such sentences. I write, for example, "what one owes to another or what one owes to one's self." In this respect I keep up a constant feud with compositors who, with the best intentions, put commas everywhere and by so doing disturb my rhythm.
In my opinion most Danish stylists use the period sign entirely erroneously. They cut up their discourse in nothing but short periods with the result that logic is deprived of the respect it should command, that sentences which logically are dependent instead become co-ordinated by each forming a period.
Kylie Minogue:
And did I forget to mention that I found a new direction... and it leads back to me?
*** On that note,
I decided to see Buenos Aires another time and revisit Thailand instead, where there is much I haven't seen and much that I have seen only on the surface - Bangkok, for instance is a city of great complexity and character, and I have mainly used it as a transport hub for travels around the region. I have recently discovered that it has a significant arts scene. Not only that, the guesthouse I would like to stay at, The Artist's Place, is run by a Thai painter and musician who has made an arts space available for all of his guests, and it has some sway in the local community. The experience is being promoted as more authentic than that of a stay on Khao San Road - then again, it wouldn't be difficult to get more authentic than a large tourist ghetto which is composed of a lot of people who don't venture far from its hazy borders.
I am hoping to visit as many places in Thailand as possible, working my way all around the north, with places like Nong Khai (home to a park of surreal religious sculpture), Pai (a village in the mountains popular with hippie types), Chiang Mai (an interesting combination of cultures) and Khao Ko (a favourite holiday spot for Thais themselves) in mind, to begin with. The possibilities are endless!
While I am no longer dating Mr. Swede, my love affair with all things Scandinavian is still firmly intact. I'll be taking Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow by Peter Hoeg and The Diary of Soren Kierkegaard with me, amongst others. I find that I have an intuitive understanding of SK - he may be depressive, but he strikes a chord. At any rate, he always had something interesting to stay in his journal (intentioned for publication from the start).
Remind me to find some of Thailand's famous kathoey or 'lady boys' and ask them if they're familiar with Judith Butler, if I forget, okay?
Q: How do you define hate and love?
A: The distinction between hate and love is all in your head. When you wish to make yourself ill, you think of hate. When you wish to make yourself healthy, you think of love.
Q: Where is home?
A: Anywhere you decide to make it home.
A: Dear Yoko, what are your beliefs about 2012?
Q: I think it will be another beautiful year.
One of Japan's most famous celebrities, Yoko's philosophy is both simple and complex
From Soren Kierkegaard:
Altogether I hate these pseudo-scholars--how often at a party have I not deliberately sat down by some elderly spinster-lady who feeds on repeating family news, and with the utmost gravity listened to her chatter.
and:
I prefer talking with old persons of the female sex who peddle family gossip; next, with the insane--and last, with very sensible people.
On his unique use of punctuation:
In a scientific paper I use my punctuation differently from the way I use it in rhetorical writing. [...] it becomes more evolved. What particularly occupies me is the architectonic-dialectical phenomenon that the eye sees the structure of the sentences which at the same time, when one reads them aloud, becomes their rhythm--and in my mind's eye I always visualise a reader reading aloud.--That is the reason why I use commas sparingly. For instance, where I want a subdivision under a semicolon, I do not place a comma between such sentences. I write, for example, "what one owes to another or what one owes to one's self." In this respect I keep up a constant feud with compositors who, with the best intentions, put commas everywhere and by so doing disturb my rhythm.
Keep the Danish existentialist philosophers coming!
Kylie Minogue:
And did I forget to mention that I found a new direction... and it leads back to me?
From the 'Spinning Around' video
*** On that note,
I decided to see Buenos Aires another time and revisit Thailand instead, where there is much I haven't seen and much that I have seen only on the surface - Bangkok, for instance is a city of great complexity and character, and I have mainly used it as a transport hub for travels around the region. I have recently discovered that it has a significant arts scene. Not only that, the guesthouse I would like to stay at, The Artist's Place, is run by a Thai painter and musician who has made an arts space available for all of his guests, and it has some sway in the local community. The experience is being promoted as more authentic than that of a stay on Khao San Road - then again, it wouldn't be difficult to get more authentic than a large tourist ghetto which is composed of a lot of people who don't venture far from its hazy borders.
Charlee, the owner of The Artist's Place, looks so peaceful! 
I am hoping to visit as many places in Thailand as possible, working my way all around the north, with places like Nong Khai (home to a park of surreal religious sculpture), Pai (a village in the mountains popular with hippie types), Chiang Mai (an interesting combination of cultures) and Khao Ko (a favourite holiday spot for Thais themselves) in mind, to begin with. The possibilities are endless!
While I am no longer dating Mr. Swede, my love affair with all things Scandinavian is still firmly intact. I'll be taking Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow by Peter Hoeg and The Diary of Soren Kierkegaard with me, amongst others. I find that I have an intuitive understanding of SK - he may be depressive, but he strikes a chord. At any rate, he always had something interesting to stay in his journal (intentioned for publication from the start).
Remind me to find some of Thailand's famous kathoey or 'lady boys' and ask them if they're familiar with Judith Butler, if I forget, okay?
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