The Star Thrower

How far will [human beings] go? Three hundred years of scientific method have built the great sky-touching buildings and nourished the incalculable fertility of the human species. But man is also homo duplex, as they knew in the darker ages. He partakes of evil and of good, of god and of man. Both struggle in him perpetually. And he is himself a flame—a great, roaring, wasteful furnace devouring irreplaceable substances of the earth.



















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Ivan Grigor’evich Miasoedov (1881-1953), Fryderyk Chopin and George Sand

Ivan Grigor’evich Miasoedov (1881-1953), Fryderyk Chopin and George Sand

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Original and astonishing works of culture are like a bomb which falls on a lazy, stupefied town, where everybody sits with their mug of beer and is very wise, and is oblivious of the fact that their insipid well-being is precisely the cause of the thunder’s crash.
Hegel, “Aphorisms from the Wastebook,” Miscellaneous Writings of G. W. F. Hegel, ed. Stewart
“When atoms are in harmony everything works fine. Life is based on this harmony. But when an atom is smashed its parts strike other atoms which then strike still more atoms, and so on… A terrifying explosion takes place! This is atomic death.”


The Three Astronauts by Umberto Eco and Eugenio Carmi, 1989

“When atoms are in harmony everything works fine. Life is based on this harmony. But when an atom is smashed its parts strike other atoms which then strike still more atoms, and so on… A terrifying explosion takes place! This is atomic death.”



The Three Astronauts by Umberto Eco and Eugenio Carmi, 1989

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
Franz Kafka
Bernini Sculpture: Pluto and Proserpina (1621-22)

Bernini Sculpture: Pluto and Proserpina (1621-22)

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