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Art is his religion. Worlding is their worlding. (opens the original)
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Some while ago I read the phrase “art is his religion”. Where I saw this I have no idea. I do remember that in was in a context in which everyone was expected to know this. When I saw it I re-parsed it from my [selfing the world :: worlding the self] Janus dance, as “worlding is his worlding” and let it go. Shrug, but the layers refold to touch me this week. (Is that not a better phrase than a return of the repressed!?).So this week “art is his religion” re-appeared before me, and I could track
Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus (opens the original)
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Found written in pencil, in the margins of a book of poetry, is a short confirmation of what I found in reading Denis de Rougemont’s Passion and Society. There I learnt about the intertwining layers of Manichaean heresy and orthodoxy in the development of Catharism, Troubadour’s courtly love, and the northern French interpretation of wrong-way love stories from the Celtic fringes presented as Arthurian romances. It then lived on in the romantic strains of European culture and ideas of <a href="h
Alignment ⑫ a/symmetry (opens the original)
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In my morning routine at work in a library, the first thing I do is dusting.I dust the books on their shelves. As I dust I note books passing by. I’ve read that one. I should read that one.So one of these mornings I saw Nobel physicist Frank Wilczek‘s A beautiful question : finding nature’s deep design. I read that one a decade ago, I said to myself.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1JpS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A
Emily Herring's Henri Bergson’s evolution in his intuition, durée & élan vital (opens the original)
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I’ve been following, very loosely, other people’s readings of Henri-Louis Bergson for sometime, as I have other writer’s works, but he has been a slow burn. Once so popular, now remembered by items found like second-hand curios. Many of us linger like that, but he was really really well-known.So reading substack author Emily Herring’s Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People oddly bookends this blog <a href="https://whyweshould.loofs-samorzewski.com/abo
The Tao of Cooking by Sally Pasley (opens the original)
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