Post ApZchRTQMGDHuLH4tM by iraantlers@mastodon.online
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 (DIR) Post #ApZcgyvQV4NhMn9X0q by iraantlers@mastodon.online
       2024-12-30T13:52:05Z
       
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       Amulets against the spirit of the age “Such phrases or fragments, Sloan suggested, were charged with a certain power. Like an amulet worn around the neck, these words might somehow shield or guide or console or sustain the one who held them close to mind and heart.”—L.M. Sacasas1/
       
 (DIR) Post #ApZch37ysKngOt3c8W by iraantlers@mastodon.online
       2024-12-30T13:54:16Z
       
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       Amulet:“You could not be born at a better time than the present, when we have lost everything.” — Simone Weil
       
 (DIR) Post #ApZch6Yg7WwF2YZTfM by iraantlers@mastodon.online
       2024-12-30T13:56:46Z
       
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       Amulet:“Ideologies are never interested in the miracle of being.” — Hannah Arendt
       
 (DIR) Post #ApZchAVzPTAFJNLO1w by iraantlers@mastodon.online
       2024-12-30T14:01:06Z
       
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       Amulet:“Learned and leisurely hospitality is the only antidote to the stance of deadly cleverness […] I remain certain that the quest for truth cannot thrive outside the nourishment of mutual trust flowering into a commitment to friendship.”— Ivan Illich
       
 (DIR) Post #ApZchEW8WretizRYoa by iraantlers@mastodon.online
       2024-12-30T14:04:27Z
       
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       Amulet:“Whenever I have encountered any kind of deep problem with civilization anywhere in the world [...] I have always found one and the same cause: a lack of accountability to and responsibility for the world.”— Václav Havel
       
 (DIR) Post #ApZchIO88ZdBjJjDtI by iraantlers@mastodon.online
       2024-12-30T14:07:14Z
       
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       These amulets are forged by decay, darkness & pressure: (1/3)
       
 (DIR) Post #ApZchMfIEhjizhmzCK by iraantlers@mastodon.online
       2024-12-30T14:07:14Z
       
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       “… although the living is subject to the ruin of the time, the process of decay is at the same time a process of crystallization, that in the depth of the sea, into which sinks and is dissolved what once was alive, some things ‘suffer a sea-change’ and survive in new crystallized forms and shapes that remain immune to the elements, as though they waited only for the pearl diver who one day will come down to them and bring them up into the world of the living—as ‘thought fragments,’ (2/3)
       
 (DIR) Post #ApZchRTQMGDHuLH4tM by iraantlers@mastodon.online
       2024-12-30T14:07:14Z
       
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       as something ‘rich and strange,’ and perhaps even as everlasting Urphänomene.”— Hannah Arendt (3/3)