Stolen Valor Archives : cody frank

Ingmar Bergman on “severe standards”

cody — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:08:39 +0000

In my family there was an atmosphere of hearty wholesomeness that I, a sensitive young plant, scorned and rebelled against. But that strict middle-class home gave me a wall to pound on, something to sharpen myself against. At the same time my family taught me a number of values—efficiency, punctuality, a sense of financial responsibility—which […]

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Theodor Adorno on direct experience

cody — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 04:01:17 +0000

The notions of subjective and objective have been completely reversed. Objective means the non-controversial aspect of things, their unquestioned impression, the façade made up of classified data, that is, the subjective; and they call subjective anything which breaches that façade, engages the specific experience of a matter, casts off all ready-made judgements and substitutes relatedness […]

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the novel as tulpa

cody — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 17:55:24 +0000

We find [in Tibet] the singular phenomenon of the conscious—semi-“scientific”—practice of the creation and destruction of demons. It appears that in Tibet [the Arcanum of the Devil in the Tarot] is known, and it is practised as one of the methods of occult training of the will and imagination. The training consists of three parts: […]

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writing advice from the GOAT (greatest of all Toms)

cody — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 18:13:03 +0000

(from the Introduction to Slow Learner, by Thomas Pynchon)

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hits from T.S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent”

cody — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 23:39:06 +0000

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quotes I’ve enjoyed recently

cody — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 18:56:12 +0000

I was twenty-five before I realized stockings were sexy. The Names, Don DeLillo The artist bending to the necessities of his/her creative process ought, for aesthetics’ sake, eschew the strengths of the given medium. Stan Brakhage For all history is in some measure a fall of the sacred, a limitation and diminution. But the sacred […]

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cody — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 20:47:09 +0000

Every time desire is betrayed, cursed, uprooted from its field of immanence, a priest is behind it. The priest cast the triple curse on desire: the negative law, the extrinsic rule, and the transcendent ideal. Facing north, the priest said, Desire is lack (how could it not lack what it desires?). The priest carried out […]

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cody — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 19:54:04 +0000

From the glories of the Tang Dynasty I recall only one date: the year the usurper An Lushan drove both Wang Wei and Du Fu far from the corrupt court into the mountains where for the first time they were free to write the only poems we remember. Peter Dale Scott, “The Tao of 9/11”

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Carl Jung on “numinous influences”

cody — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 00:45:00 +0000

Modern man does not realize how much his ‘rationalism’ (which has annihilated his ability to respond to numinous influences and symbols) has left him at the mercy of the psychic underworld of evil. Carl Jung

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two by M.C. Escher

cody — Tue, 16 May 2023 20:38:08 +0000

“Angels and Devils” “Snakes”

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