Title : Today's Kindle off ramp: "CONSCIOUSNESS IS NATURE’S NIGHTMARE."
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Today's Kindle off ramp: "CONSCIOUSNESS IS NATURE’S NIGHTMARE."
I told you how I love reading a book in Kindle because words and phrases are like signs for off ramps, and you can take them anytime you want. Highlight the text and make it a Google search and you're out of the main thing and poking around the side roads.You might remember that I was reading the David Foster Wallace story "The Suffering Channel" when I took an off ramp marked "squunched."
Well, I am still trying to get to the end of the highway called "The Suffering Channel," but today I took the off ramp at "CONSCIOUSNESS IS NATURE’S NIGHTMARE" — all caps in the original — which was said to be the "Registered motto of Chicago IL’s O Verily Productions."
I thought what a great aphorism and wondered what people had said about that. The first thing I saw was a song (from 2016) with that title by "a certain especially bizarre avant-garde black metal band: one of the most prolific one-man projects in metal, Jute Gyte." (What is "black metal"?)
I did not slow down for that, but the second hit, "Emil Cioran - Wikiquote"...
... drew me in for hours. "Emil Cioran (8 April 1911 – 20 June 1995) was a Romanian philosopher and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French." The corporate motto from the David Foster Wallace story — "Consciousness is nature's nightmare" — began as an aphorism in Cioran's "Tears and Saints" (1937).
What a phenomenal collection of aphorisms on this page!
"One of the greatest delusions of the average man is to forget that life is death's prisoner." That's from "On the Heights of Despair" (1934).
"What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?"
"I am displeased with everything. If they made me God, I would immediately resign."
"Read day and night, devour books—these sleeping pills—not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions."
Through Kindle books you can retrace your way back to the origin of nature's nightmare, Emil Cioran.
"I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away."
"Only the idiot is equipped to breathe."
I was not finding this depressing but actually quite hilarious, though I did worry about getting infected with whatever might have caused David Foster Wallace to kill himself. But:
"The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?"
I was imagining becoming a standup comedian using just Cioran aphorisms: "Only optimists commit suicide, the optimists who can no longer be...optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why should they have any to die?" You'd need the right costume. The right demeanor. Timing. Etc.
But then I was reading Cioran's Wikipedia page and got to this:
In 1933 [when Cioran was 22], he received a scholarship to the University of Berlin... While in Berlin, he became interested in the policies of the Nazi regime, contributed a column to Vremea dealing with the topic (in which Cioran confessed that "there is no present-day politician that I see as more sympathetic and admirable than Hitler," while expressing his approval for the Night of the Long Knives—"what has humanity lost if the lives of a few imbeciles were taken")....He seems to have renounced these ideas later (but who wouldn't?!). His obituary in the NYT makes no mention of Nazism (but then it calls him a "novelist" and has to append a correction to say he never wrote a novel). Was he evil? "Mr. Cioran lived reclusively in a simple Left Bank apartment, frequenting the area around the Luxembourg Gardens and avoiding the company of other literary figures." He lived to be 84, you might want to know.
I'd like to take the aphorisms for whatever they are. The text speaks for itself.
"My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly the contrary of a mission."
Thus articles Today's Kindle off ramp: "CONSCIOUSNESS IS NATURE’S NIGHTMARE."
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