From the book, The Web of Meaning by Jeremy Lent:
Think of a landscape with undulating hills, going off into the distance. Now turn your mind to the swell of waves on the seashore. Because of the speed with which the waves move, you can easily recognize their momentary form as a function of their temporal pattern, but the hills that seem so fixed are essentially land-based waves, just moving a million times more slowly than the ocean waves, so we see them as static.
I am watching Terence McKenna’s Final Interview on YouTube and when he states that time is speeding up, the interviewer asks what he means, since the time we keep is the same as ever, and it doesn’t seem to be …
I read this quote From Walter Benjamin online: Und heute schon ist das Buch, wie die aktuelle wissenschaftliche Produktionsweise lehrt, eine veraltete Vermittlung zwischen zwei verschiedenen Kartotheksystemen. …
I am reading Lüzumsuz Adam and in this story called İp Meselesi, Sait Faik Abasıyanık is describing a man—who, I believe, is himself—who is unfit for any job, doesn’t even know where to begin. O, dünyaya hayretle …
I am watching a YouTube video about how Monet chased an "envelope". I haven’t heard this word used in this context before. Brian T. Martin, the creator of the video, describes it as the air, the light, or the …
