EPIPHANTOM

An Oldie, But A Goodie (from “The Birth of Tragedy” by Mister Nietzsche)

Here is a portrait of Nietzsche that I made. And here is a quotation from The Birth Of Tragedy:

The beautiful appearance of the world of dreams, in whose creation each man is a complete artist, is the precondition of all plastic art, and also, in fact, as we shall see, an important part of poetry. We enjoy the form with an immediate understanding; every shape speaks to us; nothing is indifferent and unnecessary. For all the most intense life of this dream reality, we nevertheless have the shimmering sense of their illusoryquality: That, at least, is my experience. For the frequency, indeed normality, of this response, I could point to many witnesses and the utterances of poets. Even the philosophical man has the presentiment that under this reality in which we live and have our being lies hidden a second, totally different reality and that thus the former is an illusion. And Schopenhauer specifically designates as the trademark of philosophical talent the ability to recognize at certain times that human beings and all things are mere phantoms or dream pictures.

This is going into LE MANIFESTO but for now, I think this more than warrants a de-contextualized space in my internet-home.

And I am down one internet-home, now, having just anaesthetized my Facebook account (re: deactivated but not deleted). I just need a break from the abuse that website exacts on my consciousness.

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Happy Monday,

Emma