We hold that all the loveliness of this world comes by communion in Ideal-Form. – Plotinus
Monthly Archives: December 2010
2010-12-27 15:07:34 +0000
I can’t be the first to have noticed that Matter for Plotinus seems to resemble the Real in the later Lacan.
2010-12-27 11:42:45 +0000
Û¼ From their home they fly now here, now there, feeding on honey-comb and bringing all things to pass. And… http://tumblr.com/x3f151i2bl
From their home they fly now here, now there, feeding on honey-comb and bringing all things to pass. And when they are inspired through eating yellow honey, they are willing to speak truth; but if they be deprived of the gods’ sweet food, then they speak falsely, as they swarm in and out together.
The Thriae, who practised divination by means of pebbles (also called THRIAE). In this hymn they are represented as aged maidens (ll. 553-4), but are closely associated with bees (ll. 559-563) and possibly are here conceived as having human heads and breasts with the bodies and wings of bees.
– From a note to an unspecified edition of the Homeric Hymns
2010-12-27 10:31:06 +0000
Literally snowed in–drifts are too big to be able to force the doors of the house open.
2010-12-26 16:15:21 +0000
The first flakes of the End of Civilization are already falling.
2010-12-26 14:52:28 +0000
Borders: convoluted unfriendly gift card redemption / e-book purchasing, poor selection, and terrible prices. Please go out of business now!
2010-12-26 13:37:47 +0000
Found Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod @gutenberg_org http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/348
2010-12-26 13:29:26 +0000
I am neither ready nor unready.