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The Fall of the Rebel Angels (Detail) - Luca Giordano, c.1665.

Dante and Virgil in Hell (detail) - William Adolphe Bouguereau, 1850.

Born on this date 76 years ago, Art Spiegelman.

Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it: They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken. ~Anaïs Nin

(Book: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 https://amzn.to/4bycKqN)

(Art: Photograph of Anaïs Nin by Jules Halász)

Henry Rollins Shares Deep Cuts in His Record Collection | Discogs Digs Henry Rollins breaks down some deep cuts and recommends various titles found in his personal record collection.

The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other. ~Osho

(Book: The Power of Love [ad] https://amzn.to/3UZhgZB)

(Art: 'One Reflection', 1998 by Clive Smith)

Parade Of Great Guitarists: Brother Wayne Kramer (1948-2024) Ever hear of a band called the MC5? Let’s talk — if you read this ‘Stack, you owe this guy everything.

The words that changed Rod Woodson’s career. #nfl #Super Bowl

Pleasure is the product of thought; joy is not. Pleasure is sustained, built up by thought. The mind has an experience, and that experience is thought about. If that experience has a certain form of pleasure, delight, amusement; thought begins to think about it and therefore sustains that pleasure by thinking about it. That is what most people do when they have s*x – s*xual demands, s*xual pleasures – the mind, thought, thinks about it over and over and over again, and then that pleasure must be fulfilled. That is a constant image in the mind. One hears, ‘Die to everything you know,’ and one asks, ‘What have I left?’ But if one has really gone into it deeply, what one has left is joy, real joy of living – seeing a beautiful tree, a beautiful face, the movement of water, the bird – living. Not living in conflict, in misery – all that is not living. Death is not something prolonged; it comes immediately, and it is over. To die to the past immediately requires a great deal of attention, a great deal of inquiry, a great deal of inward apprehension. Not apprehension in the sense fear, but inward awareness. Then out of that, there is a different kind of life altogether. Therefore there is no fear of death because you are dying every day to everything you have gathered. So your mind becomes extraordinarily alert, fresh, young and – if I may use that word which is so laden – innocent. It is only the innocent mind that can live, not this jaded mind.

J. Krishnamurti
From a conversation with Donald Ingram Smith, New Delhi, 24 December 1966

Hilarious Nick Saban story from former Bama player @mac_hereford . Saban is an absolute legend in every way possible. 🐘🧃 #bringthejuice#sportspodcast#nicksaban#bamafootball

Bob Ezrin pays tribute to late MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer "Wayne was a force of nature. A soul man in a rock'n'roll body"

Bring back Dice. #80snostalgia #80sfashion #80sparty #80sstyle #80spop #80scomedy #80s #hilarious #1980s #backtothe80s #oldies #eighties #retrovintage #retroaesthetic #totally80s #ilovethe80s #80svibes #80style #oldie #retroclothing #nostalgia #laugh #vintage #comedy #andrewdiceclay

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

English literature notes

At the end of the day, you have two choices in love – one is to accept someone just as they are and the other is to walk away. There is no in between. There is no bartering, bargaining, expecting and falling short in love. There is just choosing to be there or to not. Anything in between is a tired, self-interested excuse for love. ~Heidi Priebe

(Book: This Is Me Letting You Go [ad] https://amzn.to/3UoXW7E)

(Art: Photograph of actress Audrey Hepburn with husband Mel Ferrer outside Paris in 1956 by Michael Ochs)

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