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A Defrocked Academic
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Themed Quotations
09-22-2023
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Pessimistic Passage of the Day...
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A Defrocked Academic
Re: Pessimistic Passage of the Day...
"We could not live if we were wholly alive to all the ugliness of the world."
- Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock, "The Myth of Punch"
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Poetry
01-04-2023
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Sometimes
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A Defrocked Academic
Sometimes
Sometimes at rest I think I know
the high and lonely cold white road
where all have gone and all must go.
Sometimes in sleep I think I see
the thing that will become of me
in the stillness of...
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General Discussion
11-28-2022
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Zapffe’s On the Tragic: An Attempted Translation
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A Defrocked Academic
Re: Zapffe’s On the Tragic: An Attempted Translation
While working on an essay about Zapffe and Ligotti, I was recently inspired to translate Zapffe's analysis of the Book of Job (OTT, Chapter 10, § 106). In what is considered one of the high points of...
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11-19-2022
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Zapffe’s On the Tragic: An Attempted Translation
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A Defrocked Academic
Re: Zapffe’s On the Tragic: An Attempted Translation
Peter Wessel Zapffe - The Humorous Pessimist - YouTube
Two documentaries on Zapffe at the end of his life, with English subtitles. The pessimism starts at 17.10. The translation is not entirely...
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Matt Cardin
11-16-2022
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Autumn Longing, LSD, Zombies and Ego Death
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A Defrocked Academic
Re: Autumn Longing, LSD, Zombies and Ego Death
Thank you for yet another thought-provoking post/essay!
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Themed Quotations
11-07-2022
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"Work is good because it brings non-existence, and that non-existence is the most tolerable of all the forms of matter in life. There is no other answer to hard work. And I know of almost no one who...
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Musicians
09-02-2022
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The Saddest Music in the World
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A Defrocked Academic
Re: The Saddest Music in the World
Son House - Death Letter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Letter)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdgrQoZHnNY
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Rants & Ravings
07-15-2022
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Unwary Traveller - an exploration on psilocybin
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A Defrocked Academic
Re: Unwary Traveller - an exploration on psilocybin
There is some very interesting imagery here. I found this passage especially evocative:
There is something Ligottian about descriptions like "Skeletal, thin creatures, insectoid, in the...
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Rants & Ravings
07-10-2022
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Death Dreams
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No one needs to be told about what is weird. It is something that becomes known in the early stages of every life. With the very first nightmare or a childhood bout of fever, an initiation takes...
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Happy Birthday
12-27-2021
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Happy Birthday In A Dark Light
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A Defrocked Academic
Re: Happy Birthday In A Dark Light
Happy Birthday!
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General Discussion
11-16-2021
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Fiction as 'religion'
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A Defrocked Academic
Re: Fiction as 'religion'
It's "The Rudolfian court". The court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor)appears to be associated with polyphonic music as well as with the...
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10-31-2021
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Fiction as 'religion'
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A Defrocked Academic
Re: Fiction as 'religion'
Thank you for these thoughtful posts. Thanks are also due to Nemonymous for starting the thread.The overall effect Machen is going for is a kind of heightened mood, an almost drug-like effect...
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General Discussion
10-26-2021
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Dark Party of the Soul: The Curious Case of Andrew W.K. and Thomas Ligotti
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A Defrocked Academic
Re: Dark Party of the Soul: The Curious Case of Andrew W.K. and Thomas Ligotti
Thank you for the information! Although I do not know very much about the psychedelic phenomena described in your posts, I do get the sense that you are on to something. The notion of a graph of...
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Philosophy
10-20-2021
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Did we evolve to see reality as it exists?
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A Defrocked Academic
Re: Did we evolve to see reality as it exists?
In your own unvarying first-person experience, isn't the only thing that conforms to that very definition nothing but consciousness itself? I know it is for me.[/quote]
Thank you for this...
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Philosophy
10-18-2021
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Did we evolve to see reality as it exists?
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A Defrocked Academic
Re: Did we evolve to see reality as it exists?
I too am fond of that quote. To be fair, Hoffman does anticipate this line of criticism in his article...
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Philosophy
10-18-2021
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Did we evolve to see reality as it exists?
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A Defrocked Academic
Re: Did we evolve to see reality as it exists?
It's a reference to "turtles all the way down (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down)". The interpretation that "everything is a projection of our consciousness" seems reasonable to...
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General Discussion
10-17-2021
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Hagiwara’s Face at the Bottom of the Ground: The Question of Authorial Influence
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Hagiwara’s Face at the Bottom of the Ground: The Question of Authorial Influence
Hagiwara’s Face at the Bottom of the Ground:
Poetry in Translation and the Question of Authorial Influence
I. Introduction
Many of the literary influences of Thomas Ligotti were read...
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Questions & Answers
10-13-2021
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Hello. Where to next?
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A Defrocked Academic
Re: Hello. Where to next?
Ligotti’s interviews form an important part of his work.
A collection of online interviews is available here:
https://www.ligotti.net/forumdisplay.php?f=79
Collected interviews in book form: ...
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Other News
09-22-2021
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Upcoming English Translation of Zapffe's On the Tragic
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A Defrocked Academic
Re: Upcoming English Translation of Zapffe's On the Tragic
I should add that if you are motivated to learn Spanish in order to read "On the Tragic" specifically, I would definitely suggest taking a look at Norwegian or Danish (depending on the educational...
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Other News
09-22-2021
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Upcoming English Translation of Zapffe's On the Tragic
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19,038
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A Defrocked Academic
Re: Upcoming English Translation of Zapffe's On the Tragic
As I wrote in a previous thread, the machine translated version is not an actual translation of "On the Tragic" and should not be thought of as such. But it is useful if you want to get a rough sense...
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Themed Quotations
09-12-2021
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Original Quotes
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A Defrocked Academic
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Surely they would never go so far as to … oh.Joy is always going, but misery is its own destination.We are all time travelers stranded in the wrong future.
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General Discussion
09-11-2021
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Dark Party of the Soul: The Curious Case of Andrew W.K. and Thomas Ligotti
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A Defrocked Academic
Re: Dark Party of the Soul: The Curious Case of Andrew W.K. and Thomas Ligotti
Andrew's new album (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mSoiHUVx9xHZPYsl1Ru2_ZC387QHqBO2w) is out. One of the tracks is suggestively titled "No One To Know".
From "I Made It":
From...
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H. P. Lovecraft
09-05-2021
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More on Lovecraft
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A Defrocked Academic
Re: More on Lovecraft
A recording of "The Messenger" using a historical reconstruction of Lovecraft's pronunciation:
The bLogicarian: Voices of Earlier English: H.P. Lovecraft's Only Good Poem...
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Musicians
09-05-2021
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533
The Saddest Music in the World
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174,031
Posted By
A Defrocked Academic
Re: The Saddest Music in the World
13. Johnny Cash - I Don't Hurt Anymore
Johnny Cash - I Dont Hurt Anymore - YouTube
12. Ennio Morricone - Deborah's Theme
Ennio Morricone (Once Upon a Time in America) - YouTube...
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Happy Birthday
08-31-2021
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Happy Birthday Dr. Locrian
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3,334
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A Defrocked Academic
Re: Happy Birthday Dr. Locrian
Happy Birthday and thank you for TLO.
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