May 2012
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It is going to come to an end. I know that. In a little while I shall leave for another country. I shall never find this woman again or this night. I study each second, I try to suck it dry; nothing passes which I do not seize, which I do not fix forever within me, nothing, neither the ephemeral tenderness of these lovely eyes, nor the noises in the street, nor the false light of dawn: and yet the...
“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
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I am waiting to punctuate my sentences with noumenal love.
Act that you always use humanity as an ends and never as a means.
UGH GOD SO AWKWARD KILL ME NOW.
April 2012
me: He said it was just money and that he would rather see me than watch the performance by himself. That's so .... that's so nice.
emmanuel: And that's what should really matter. It's actually really sweet. You know, that's love carmen.
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CONSUMED by James Tate
babybirdyblue:
Why should you believe in magic,
pretend an interest in astrology
or the tarot? Truth is, you are
free, and what might happen to you
today, nobody knows. And your
personality may undergo a radical
transformation in the next half
hour. So...
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cheryl: hi, can I pretend you're my girlfriend? There's this guy who won't stop talking to me. Zack recommended I pretend I'm attached.
me: Haha! Zack. Well I'm ok with it. But don't expect me to act the part. I don't know how to do girlfriend things, even with straight guys.
“Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
LET
ME
OUT
IT
IS
HELL
WHEN
YOU’RE
AROUND.
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me: I think I'm gonna give Tagore another try next semester. I'm looking forward to reading Phenomenology, and yes, I can say 'phenomenology' now.
abhishek: ... yes but can you say 'phenomenological'?
me: hahahah no, but I'll get there!
abhishek: slowly but surely. You'll definitely be able to say it by the end of next semester.
I think you should know that I’m a soulless consequentialist.
” so philospher, why are you crying?”
There are no words to describe the feeling of being cheated on and not being able to cognitively validate the hurt that follows.
I have no words.
Zack and Abhishek have spent the last two days clearing up my misconstrued understanding of Kant’s groundwork on the metaphysics of morals. I think they did a far better job than Neil ever did over the past 14 weeks.
J’aime bien les demi-dieux du département de la philosophie
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zhenhe: the people behind us are on a blind date
me: are you serious?!
zhenhe: either that or she's selling insurance.
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slashing madly in the dark, I have opened more hands than hearts.
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me: how will I ever reconcile my epistemological standards with the sensible world?
alyssa: cannot.
me: how do I mesh my wavelength with the wavelengths of my friends outside of philosophy?
alyssa: with beer or tequila.
me: how do I accommodate their assumptions?
alyssa: bear with it, or be an academic prick.
me: how do I stop myself from over thinking?
alyssa: you don't. Keep thinking, but bear in mind their academic standing. Don't start an ethics conversation with a science major, or existentialism with a political science major.
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