Shamsad @shamsad_h
πάθει μάθος 🍃 sine ira et studio letterboxd.com/shamsad_h/ London, England Joined November 2018-
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Reading Freud again after a while, struck this time by the sheer contrast between his own clear, concise writing, and the obscure verbiage (“volltönenden, inhaltsarmen Worten”) of his acolytes and expositors
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Vatican Latinity remains in shambles
Vatican Latinity remains in shambles https://t.co/Fh5eQyfgnS
Watching Barry Lyndon on an ipad. Just like Kubrick would have wanted
Recent discourse reminding me of @kukukadoo's opening here, which expresses so well the point that academic gossip and academic pedagogy are really just two particulars of the same Form (indoctrination into a learned tradition) chronicle.com/article/the-en…
Alan Kay: "the disdain for history is what makes computing not-quite-a-field"
Not even Rabindranath was immune from the anxiety of influence (Kshati-puran, trans. William Radice)
The moon reflects the light of the sun like Aquinas reflects the light of God. ~ Wallace Stevens
'Life is warfare, and a visit in a strange land' (Meditations 2.17.1). In other words, Homer is life
Pain -> Wisdom was a common pedagogical assumption in ancient Near East. Qohelet reverses, though, to say Wisdom -> Pain. But contra Greek traditions (and Genesis?) Q. does not seem to think God reveres those who suffer (cf. Gen 3.22; Aesch. Eum 1002 etc.)
Pain -> Wisdom was a common pedagogical assumption in ancient Near East. Qohelet reverses, though, to say Wisdom -> Pain. But contra Greek traditions (and Genesis?) Q. does not seem to think God reveres those who suffer (cf. Gen 3.22; Aesch. Eum 1002 etc.)
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I have not used my darkness well. Stanley Moss
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“there were faces I knew for years / and the nearness of them began only / when they were missing” W. S. Merwin, who would have turned 95 years old today.
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