Why do you look so sad?

music

MUSIC is the art that comes closest to the Dionysian beauty in the sense of intoxication. No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting but who can't help but to get drunk on Beethoven's Ninth, Joni Mitchells' Blue, or Charles Mingus' Mingus Ah Um?
Make no distinction between pop and classical. The distinction: just old fashioned and critical; its all a liberating force from loneliness, introversion, the dust of the library.

snacks talk

If the Pharaoh's daughter hadn't snatched the basket carrying little Moses from the waves, there would have been no Old Testament, no civilization as we now know it. How many ancient myths begin with the rescue of an abandoned child! If Polybus hadn't taken in the young Oedipus, Sophocles wouldn't have written his most beautiful tragedy.

Yes, metaphors are dangerous. No, metaphors are not to be trifled with.

lunch talks

is there a means to test which decision is better? but, there is no basis for comparison. we live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is like a sketch. No, sketch is not quite the word, because a sketch is an outline for something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

breakfast talks

is heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid? the heavier the burden the closer life comes to the earth, the more real and more truthful it becomes. the absolute absence of a burden causes us to be lighter than air, to take leave of the earth and its earthly being, and become only half real, our movements as free as they are insignificant.

what then do you choose? lightness or weight?