Uchiha Itachi’s Mangekyou Sharingan, from Naruto. Great books are better read by highly perceptive eyes. With a powerful enough eye, you can even imitate them and put your own spin on the illusory world of words, concepts, and ideas. Kaleidoscopic books for kaleidoscopic eyes. Lichtenberg: “A book is a mirror: if an ape looks intoContinue reading “Mangekyou Sharingan”
Category Archives: philosophy
Interstellar Book
If you can program the Big Bang, you can also program a few interstellar comets or asteroids to fly past Earth and be observed by mankind at precisely the point at which a certain personality writes his interstellar book. And why not have these interstellar comets or asteroids be the first to ever be discoveredContinue reading “Interstellar Book”
A Little Candle
Rita on X: “Nothing created God. Think of candles being lit, every flame comes from another flame, one lights the next and so on. If you follow that chain back you eventually need a flame that didn’t come from another candle or else nothing would ever be lit. That first flame is God. Everything elseContinue reading “A Little Candle”
Back to Good and Evil
David Ho’s cover art of Infected Mushroom’s Vicious Delicious album. We’ve been beyond Good and Evil for over a century. It’s time to get back to it. I am Good. You are Good. And your enemy is Evil. Since power is flux, and the world is flux, and therefore the world is the will toContinue reading “Back to Good and Evil”
Reading List
Maxims | François de La Rochefoucauld The Waste Books | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg The Art of Literature | Arthur Schopenhauer The Art of Controversy | Arthur Schopenhauer Politics and the English Language | George Orwell Fragments | Heraclitus On Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense | Friedrich Nietzsche The Gay Science | Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond GoodContinue reading “Reading List”
Of Idleness
Montaigne: “As we see some grounds that have long lain idle and untilled, when grown rich and fertile by rest, to abound with and spend their virtue in the product of innumerable sorts of weeds and wild herbs that are unprofitable, and that to make them perform their true office, we are to cultivate andContinue reading “Of Idleness”
Why I Keep Writing
Why do I still bother writing? I could have stopped doing it after I completed the first volume of this book, since there was already enough content there, in my view, to leave a mark and basically tell the world, “This is who I am”. I still do it because it’s still fun for me.Continue reading “Why I Keep Writing”
The Limits of My Abilities
I’ve been thinking about testing the limits of my abilities. The one thing I believe I’m lacking is an advanced degree. I do believe this blog and my writing prove that, at the very least, I am above average, as far as intelligence goes. I also believe that if I put my mind to it,Continue reading “The Limits of My Abilities”
Writing as Sacrifice
I would be living a far more tranquil life if I had never written an aphorism or opinion. Every writer sacrifices himself a little with every piece of text he writes.
Uchiha Itachi
I read the Naruto manga but neglected the anime because I thought the anime was too slow-paced and annoying (every character has a million flashbacks and likes talking forever), though it does have its moments. And besides, I’m not a huge anime fan, anyway. But one character that I loved in the story was UchihaContinue reading “Uchiha Itachi”
The Stillest 