Tag Archives: Goethe Faustina

unwilling complicity

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Dave

This is quite grotesque. It was written by Slavoj Zizek, an it is part of a discussion on distinguishing true emotion form the false, and true dignity,that elusive chalice, from the pre-digested, packaged clutter of modern life, known as kitsch. … Continue reading →

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grey tones: before the law

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Dave

…show an unmistakable love of death — a romance with death, indeed, a seduction by death, in which life seems beside the point. The vacuum of feeling. The vacuum of void, of loss, of death. Lifelessness. A broken will to … Continue reading →

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ROMANA GOETHE & EROTICA FAUSTINA

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Dave

”Goethe’s writings are among the most unabashedly autobiographical in world literature. They are so frank and utterly open as to carry well beyond the reality of objective events into the much more intimately real imaginative world. That may be why … Continue reading →

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