Early color photographs of Antarctica, circa 1915, by Australian adventurer Frank Hurley.
“Man is not simply a product of objective circumstances: we all have this margin of freedom in deciding how we subjectivize these objective circumstances which, of course, determine us, how we react to them by constructing our own universe.”
— Slavoj Žižek. The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology. (2012)
— Slavoj Žižek. The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology. (2012)
For our own past is covered by the currents of action,
But the torment of others remains an experience unqualified, unworn by subsequent attrition.
People change, and smile: but the agony abides.
But the torment of others remains an experience unqualified, unworn by subsequent attrition.
People change, and smile: but the agony abides.
Forwarded from alcoholic.exe
“The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if they were still going on, contemporary even with the future as if they were about to happen again.”
Forwarded from tomrum
How desperately I have wished for memories to be eternal, but eternity exists only insofar as it buries itself in smaller things. The photograph will exist longer than I can ever remember its being taken. Even the candle which burns exists longer than my recollection of the candle or its burning—it exists but is transmogrified.
In this way, in smaller things, it is buried. In this way, maybe, I am buried too.
Dedicated to Jacqueline Winter Thomas (March 23, 1991 – April 18, 2019).
In this way, in smaller things, it is buried. In this way, maybe, I am buried too.
Dedicated to Jacqueline Winter Thomas (March 23, 1991 – April 18, 2019).
“Every effort is a crime, because every gesture is a dead dream.”
— Fernando Pessoa
— Fernando Pessoa