Perhaps consider the 'unbearable nostalgia' from the perspective of ecology. — Amity
Sorry, I couldn't make it! — Amity
I hope you weren't drowning in sake sorrows? — Amity
In audio, the former sounding better. I'm now feeling a sense of nostalgia but not the unbearable kind! — Amity
Just as in Kundera's novel, I think being part of a reading/listening group selecting poems can be wonderful and enlightening. Thank you — Amity
Would a poetry thread not be better placed and appreciated under another main category? Philosophy of Art? Aesthetics?] — Amity
The presence of the friend who judges him harshly but also lets him have his own way. — Paine
Merwin himself is a contrast to the poem since much of his other work involves memory holding onto particular events and things as a way of treading water in one's 'now'. What is reflecting what? — Paine
I will think about Sikelianos. Is that different from Yeats thinking about naughty gods? — Paine
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With her hair closely cropped up to the nape
Like Dorian Apollo’s, the girl lay on the narrow
Pallet, keeping her limbs stiffly frozen
Within a heavy cloud she could not escape...
Artemis emptied her quiver—every arrow
Shot through her body. And though very soon
She’d be no virgin, like cold honeycomb,
Her virgin thighs still kept her pleasure sealed...
As if to the arena, the youth came
Oiled with myrrh, and like a wrestler kneeled
To pin her down; and although he broke past
Her arms that she had thrust against his chest,
Only much later, with one cry, face to face,
Did they join lips, and out of their sweat, embrace... — Angelos Sikelianos.
he says I did not go
to see my parent very often you know
and I say yes I know — W.S. Merwin, Yesterday from Flower and Hand
he says the last time I went to seem father
I say the last time I saw my father
he says the last time I saw my father
he was asking me about my life
how I was making out and he
went into the next room
to get something to give me — W.S. Merwin, Yesterday from Flower and Hand
I look out the window
my friend is older than I am
he says and I told my father it was so
and I got up and left him then
you know
though there was nowhere to go
and nothing I had to do — W.S. Merwin, Yesterday from Flower and Hand
I have no idea what you mean by a "correct manner" to see reality. — jkop
But if you assume that you never see reality, only your own representation of it, well... that will inevitably lead you to doubt whether your manner of seeing reality is correct. — jkop
you experience something but believe it's something else. It's the belief that goes wrong, while the experience is a fact that arises under whatever conditions that satisfy it — jkop
Logically, the belief is about the sentence. — jkop
For example, when I believe that it rains, I'm feeling confident about the truth of the sentence 'it rains'. The belief is representational, it can be true or false, unlike experiencing the rain, which is a causal sensory interaction with the rain, not sentences. — jkop
Knowing is more fundamental than believing, believing is more fundamental that thinking and thinking is more fundamental than having an attitude. — RussellA
Does it need to be seen to be believed? — Amity
What you believe may indeed be your reality, but it's possible to become unstuck. — Janus
Polla, rabo, picha, pipa, chota, pito, nabo, miembro, ganso, riata, pija, churro, pajarito, soldado, capuchón, fresa, sable, garfio, manguera, salchicha, pepino, lanza, culebra, cipote, pilila, poronga, manubrio, pistola, cipote.
This is exactly whataboutism. — AmadeusD
Ireland, Italy, USA(parts thereof), Canada (parts thereof), Japan (parts thereof), Hong Kong, and many others. — AmadeusD
Yes. Yes I can. — AmadeusD
In what sense did he mean 'aware' - fully conscious of the world around? — Amity
Seeing as how you're here, javi, good to see ya' - I wonder if you have any thoughts on 'metaphysical imagination'. What it means to you? Or anything else you'd care to add or comment on...the surreal wonder of language/s? Where your creative ideas stem from... — Amity
I wonder if there is someone about who can explain how 'accepted answer' works? God, are you there? — Amity
I also hate that I pretty much have to have one because it feels like another form of rent: just an endless money pit that depreciates and yet you have to maintain it in order to get to work. — Moliere
The city Amadeus complains about in fact took inspiration from Seville’s “tactical urbanism” approach to start rolling out a rough and ready cycleway network in 2015. — apokrisis
I hate New Zealand. It's an awful country in almost all ways except landscape. You wont get me to care. — AmadeusD
PS: I realize now that the melodramatic letter was probably not written by a boomer, because this type of virtue-signaling self-flagelation is not in their nature. — Tzeentch
How do you tell that you are experiencing red? — Banno
"the colour red" is not anything but the experience of Red — AmadeusD
Correct, just as sugar is not taste. — Michael
"colour" formally, is the experience of (sorry, caused by, in most cases) such and such light frequency. — AmadeusD
It's a shame that we can't type in red here. — Banno
Colours are not subjective, but when you see a colour the seeing is ontologically subjective, and your opinions about the colour, e.g. that it's pretty, is epistemically subjective. — jkop
But under my definition we will have uncountably many subspaces of R2 that are not subspaces of R1, for example. — Lionino
Vector spaces may have irrational dimensions. — Lionino
If by "red pen" you mean to define a pen as comprised of redness, whatever that means, then sure, your red pen can look blue if you filter it. — Hanover
Just one red pen amongst others, red and not so red. — Banno