I found this aphorism by E.M. Cioran and would like to share it with you. It is from his book “The Trouble with Being Born”:
“To think is to undermine-to undermine oneself. Action involves fewer risks, for it fills the interval between things and ourselves, whereas reflection dangerously widens it.
…So long as I give myself [...]
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An email from a friend this evening contained an aphorism from E.M. Cioran. The aphorism (from, I’m guessing “The Trouble With Being Born”) is:
She meant absolutely nothing to me. Realizing, suddenly, after so many years, that whatever happens I shall never see her again, I nearly collapsed. We understand what death is [...]
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It is a rainy Friday afternoon and what a perfect time to revisit one of my favorite albums, which is the rare gem called “Wai Notes” by Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie “Prince” Billy. Quietly released after BPB’s beautifully orchestrated/produced album “The Letting Go,” “Wai Notes” reframes many of the songs from “The Letting Go” through [...]
March 27, 2008 – 10:40 am
I remember a recording of Marshall McLuhan talking on the Dick Cavett show about music. McLuhan asks a musician if the musician “speaks” through the instrument. That is, if the playing of the instrument and the rhythms of the English language are intertwined. I also recall E.M. Cioran in “All Gall is Divided” when he [...]
This morning I would like to briefly talk about two DJs whom I greatly admire: DJ C and DJ/Rupture. Both of these artists have elevated the craft of Djing beyond what is normally called a DJ mix. These men do more than simply “mix,” they wield the power of being able to create invigorating worlds [...]
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The beauty of “Poolside Chats with Neil Hamburger” is the over-arching technical distractions, communicative disruption of the callers and anomalous-humorous confrontations perpetuated by the shows host Neil Hamburger. That is to say, overworked by “garbage” minded call-ins, faulty microphones and having access to an open bar, Hamburger assaults, demeans and controls the show [...]
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E.M. Cioran (1911-1995)
The following is part one of an explicative look at E.M. Cioran’s piece “The Tree of Life” from his book “The Fall into Time.”
It is written that there were two trees in the Garden of Eden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The forbidden entrance into [...]
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E.M. Cioran, in his Supremacy of the Adjective suggests that we are forever bound by our language use. This biting observation generally addresses the human condition, more specifically, those who speak history into existence and color the past with their adjectival descriptions of it. The world changes in accordance with the words that we use [...]
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