Reminded myself yesterday that “sleep is the natural obstacle to the discovery of cosmos” and was immediately racked with night terrors and sleep paralysis
It’s a waste of spirit, but in my experience when a woman tries to get money etc out of you scowling at her and barking “are you the coming man?” is more effective than you might think
Contrary to the emphasis of a recent J’accuse article, this passage is the core of Lessing’s Laocoon. It is one of the very few arguments in it he does not retract or submit hypothetically (these include those on time and space). Excellent taste. One of the greatest poems
Reminded myself yesterday that “sleep is the natural obstacle to the discovery of cosmos” and was immediately racked with night terrors and sleep paralysis
@graecean I would continue the discussion by saying there is a difference between assuming superiority and openness to superiority (S’s students at least certainly falling into former) and that the pro-myth position is allegedly on the basis of natural science (1st parabasis of Birds)
“The question of selection is one of the few posable in the bean-counting plantation that encourages you to look up at the world. Really it’s the question of the tension between the origins and survival. Rouse Silenus.”
“Reich lab has countered the zoghomo assumption that evolution is neutral with the zoghomo assumption that recent history could be eugenic. For what it’s worth, it’s good when zoghomo is divided against itself.”
“Maybe you think it’s a closed story bc you’ve heard ‘evolution by natural selection.’ In academia you only hear rumors of selectionism, whispers from eccentric ornithologists ‘it’s all selection.’ Nearly every mainline geneticist will deny it, instead ‘drift,’ ‘neutrality.’”