“All true feeling is in reality untranslatable. To express it is to betray it. But it translate it is to dissimulate it. True expression hides what it makes manifest. It sets the mind in opposition to the real void of nature by creating in reaction a kind of fullness in thought. Or, in other terms, in relation to the manifestation-illusion of nature it creates a void in thought. All powerful feeling produces in us the idea of the void. And the lucid language which obstructs the appearance of this void also obstructs the appearance of poetry in thought. That is why an image, an allegory, a figure that masks what it would reveal have more significance for the spirit than the lucidities of speech and its analytics. This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.”
— Antonin Artaud, from “The Theater and Its Double”
“This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.”
YOUR LAZY MEAL IS RISOTTO?? WHAT’S YOUR LAZY DESSERT, A FUCKING SOUFFLE? IS YOUR GO-TO QUICK READ WAITING FOR THE BUS THE FUCKING POETIC EDDA IN ITS ORIGINAL OLD NORSE?
all these posts about people clutching their pearls about seeing bare titties at pride make me laugh because at last year’s pride i met a cishet guy who had no idea what was going on and had joined because he saw bare titties and thought “those people look like they are having fun, and also i can see tits for free” and he asked me about what was happening and let me explain LGBT struggles for some time before telling me he had a transgender cousin and he was going to make sure to be there for her in the future. bare tits will be the beacon to world peace
I was recently talking to a trans friend of mine and it occurred to me, that I dont. While I act sort of feminine sometimes, if i didnt have a body, nothing in my brain tells me im a woman.
Would be super interested to know what its like for yall
if a demon from the upside down’s about to kill me and you need to find out what my favorite song is, please just tell my mother i love her. i can’t choose my favorite song for the life of me.
