March 2006
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The Origin Of Marriage
When and under what conditions did the institution of marriage originate? Do we have any anthropological records about the beginnings of the institution? Or has something comparable to marriage existed since far before recorded history? Pairing seems a natural part of human life. The length of the upbringing of children necessitates a long term involvement [...]
Inevitably
With webs of lies spun to justify all of my failures.1 With Honor : This Is Our Revenge : Elevens↩
Where There Is No Truth
There can be no justice where there is no truth.1 There are few maxims truer and more relevant to our daily lives than those words. The foundation of morality, Frank Herbert’s Duke Leto suggests, is almost exclusively honesty. But it is less saying what one feels to be true as that one’s opinions and words [...]
Tartuffery
And, to say it again: Public opinions, private lazinesses.1 Friedrich Nietzsche : Human, All-Too-Human↩
The Only Sort Worth Calling Love
I love being in control, but I also love surprises. Because control is largely defensive and surprises are generally positive — “I was not expecting something so good,” is the feeling behind most surprises. Love — the only sort worth calling true — is when you meet someone who makes your dreams of an ideal [...]
A Distinctive Personality Trait
A distinctive personality trait: when I write, my writing starts small and gradually increases in size and line height. I imagine this happens because I become engrossed by the material and progressively forget about the aesthetic value of writing legibly and cleanly.
In The Desert
The desert is a strange place and my love for it a strange thing. I feel at peace in the desert and unassailed. I look out into open space and see all around me: the horizon is clear to me. The desert is clean, but this is because it is barren. The vibrance of the [...]
Still Coming Back To Nietzsche
After certain experiences — and above all else after meeting certain people, I find myself compelled to read Nietzsche as a means of restoring my sense of honesty, of giving back to myself a sense of cleanliness and deceitlessness. That Nietzsche is often wrong is not a caveat to his honesty: it is an inevitable [...]
Godot
The major source of frustration in my life is knowing that I am waiting for an apology that will quite possibly — at times it seems almost certain — never come. And yet I cannot stop waiting. Because it is a thing I want and cannot simply take. One can take vengeance, but one cannot [...]