الليلة عندي مهرجان أدبي

عَتيقٌ كالهلالِ إذا تَبدَّى
لسارِي اللّيلِ مِن تحتِ الغُيومِ

تقولُ إذا به الأترابُ حَفُّوا
أهذا البدرُ ما بَينَ النّجومِ

- أُسامة بن منقذ

The best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

- Isabel Allende

Describe the tongue of the woodpecker

The tongue of a woodpecker can extend more than three times the length of its bill. When not in use, it retracts into the skull and its cartilage-like structure continues past the jaw to wrap around the bird’s head and then curve down to its nostril. In addition to digging out grubs from a tree, the long tongue protects the woodpecker’s brain. When the bird smashes its beak repeatedly into tree bark, the force exerted on its head is ten times what would kill a human. But its bizarre tongue and supporting structure act as a cushion, shielding the brain from shock.

There is no reason you actually need to know any of this. It is information that has no real utility for your life, just as it had none for Leonardo. But I thought maybe, after reading this book, that you, like Leonardo, who one day put “Describe the tongue of the woodpecker” on one of his eclectic and oddly inspiring to-do lists, would want to know. Just out of curiosity. Pure curiosity.

He had an imagination so excitable that it flirted with the edges of fantasy

- Leonardo da Vinci's biography

تِهْ دَلاَلاً فأَنْتَ أهْلٌ لِذَاكا
وتحَكّمْ فالحُسْنُ قد أعطاكا

ولكَ الأمرُ فاقضِ ما أنتَ قاض
فَعَلَيَّ الجَمَالُ قد وَلاّكَا

- سلطان العاشقين، ابن الفارض

*من البوت*

Art completes what nature cannot bring to a finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

- Aristotle

وإن أودِعوا سِرًا رأيتَ صُدورهم
قُبورًا لأسرارٍ تُنَزّهُ عن نَقلِ

وإن هُدّدوا بالهَجْرِ ماتوا مَخافَةً
وإن أوعِدوا بالقَتْلِ حنّوا إلى القتل

لَعَمري هُمُ العُشّاقُ عندي حقيقةً
على الجِدّ والباقون منهم على الهَزْل

- سلطان العاشقين، عمر ابن الفارض

Sports and games (board, card, and multiplayer video games... etc) could be simplified, controlled social environments in which people can be vindictive, competitive, and step on other people's boundaries & limits without fear of causing any harm to their social bonds to those people.

Actually, after giving it some thought:
They might serve as social & psychological tests or simulations to find out how other people will react in certain situations (specially when you step on their tails, like in killing their queen in chess)

We're a disappointing generation who's okay with being disappointing

And I fuckin hate that
+ after I said that, now I fuckin feel like I'm in my 60s

“43 years ago, Voyager 1 captured a historic image. It was the first one ever taken of the entire Earth and Moon in a single frame. This small glimpse into our celestial neighborhood ignites so much feeling still today. What do you think of when you see the photo?”

These were the words of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution on Facebook...

Now, what do you think about the image?

إنّ الزمانَ لا يعودُ أدراجَه. ذلك ما يُثير غضبَ الإرادة وكَيدَها فهنالك صخرٌ لا طاقةَ للإرادةِ برفعه، وهذا الصخر إنّما هو الأمرُ الواقع

- هكذا تكلم زرادشت، فريدريك نيتشه

بالنسبة لنيتشه، فإنّ مفهوم Amor fati "أنْ تُحبّ قَدَرَك" يمثّل تمردًا على الزمن. فالماضي الذي لا تستطيع الإرادةُ تغييرَه، سوف تتمرد عليه من خلال أنْ تتقبله كما هو، بلا تغيير ولا تعديل. فكأنّ الإرادةَ "أرادت" للماضي أنْ يبقى كما كان، فيكون في قبضتها وماثلًا لإرادتها. أنْ تحبَّ قَدَرَك كما هو، هو خُدعة ذكية وخفّة يدٍ تَخلقُ الإيحاء بفرضِ السيطرة على ماضي ومصير الإنسان.
"فالزمن يفترس أبناءه" كما يقول نيتشه، وحبُّ الإنسان لقَدَره، هو مثل ابتسامةِ المهزوم وهي تسلب لذة النصر من مُفتَرِسِها؛ الانتقام الوحيد الذي تملكه الإرادةُ ضد الزمان والماضي.

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