Philosophy Mon Amour
I spent much of the day yesterday rereading a few sections in some of my old books from college. I miss school. I'm afraid the real world just doesn't really hold a candle to the insolated, esoteric, and self indulgent world of academia. Sorry L Dub.
"A new amatory world comes to the surface within the eternal return of historical and intellectual cycles. Following the winter of discontent comes the artifice of seeming; following the whiteness of boredom, the heartrending distraction of parody. And vice versa. Truth, in short, makes its way amid the shimmering of artificial amenities as well as asserting itself in painful mirror games. Does not the wonderment of psychic life after all stem from those alternations of protections and downfalls, smiles and tears, sunshine and melancholia?" -Julia Kristeva
"A new amatory world comes to the surface within the eternal return of historical and intellectual cycles. Following the winter of discontent comes the artifice of seeming; following the whiteness of boredom, the heartrending distraction of parody. And vice versa. Truth, in short, makes its way amid the shimmering of artificial amenities as well as asserting itself in painful mirror games. Does not the wonderment of psychic life after all stem from those alternations of protections and downfalls, smiles and tears, sunshine and melancholia?" -Julia Kristeva
posted by B S Goldsmith at 6/11/2006 02:11:00 PM
3 Comments:
Julia Kristeva is like my all time favorite.
Her recent novel, Murder in Byzantium, is next on my reading list.
That quote is from a chapter in this book.
That book has been on my wishlist for awhile -- I think the day of reckoning is at hand.
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