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A visit to the Soviet Institute of the Sun in Uzbekistan, where I was (as will be shown later) granted access to an inaccessible part of the complex.
King Lear is written in a shrieking-saccharine register which convinces its audience that every Shakespearean tragedy is written in its register, while it is the aberration.
It uniquely concedes to every contemporary self-conception and aesthetic taste. It is written with a sincere belief in all of the things that the liars in Hamlet believe about themselves, which, in Hamlet, gets punished with slapstick death.
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Henry Kissinger:
Replying to @Empty_America
I am 27 and you are onto something actually. By 27 - 29, there is no longer potential, only results or atleast a visible path to those results.
You can feel "youth" leaving you. I dont know how to describe it but those how know, know it.
Even after death, I imagine, you'll greet Death as a friend and ask him to take you to a place without slimy people, and he'll immediately take you to the Place of the Slimy People, being slimy himself.
Walter Benjamin did not come into this world under the sign of Saturn, but he did come into this world with Mars opposite Mercury in Saturn's bound, a configuration of criminalization and exile, and those are also both death signifiers in his chart.
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"You should remove superfluities and straighten things that are crooked, work on the things that are dark, making them bright, and not stop 'working on your statue' until the divine splendour of virtue shines in you."
— Plotinus, Enneads 1.6.9
They are filled with dumb droids and aliens who make dumb noises. In fact, the only characters that survive all six films are the droids. That is the lesson George Lucas wants you to take: Politics change. The toy aisle endures.
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Self-described 'Extremely Sensitive Young Man' weighs in on declining Chipotle quality. He has written an entire book.
My favorite contemporary published writer.
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