“to be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. to exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. yet once being born there is no turning back. and I think that’s exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. they illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.” ― hayao miyazaki, starting point: 1979-1996
lit meme → ten series or books v.the secret history by donna tartt
It’s a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely? To throw off the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the accident of our mortal selves? Euripides speaks of the Maenads: head thrown I back, throat to the stars, “more like deer than human being.” To be absolutely free! One is quite capable, of course, of working out these destructive passions in more vulgar and less efficient ways. But how glorious to release them in a single burst! To sing, to scream, to dance barefoot in the woods in the dead of night, with no more awareness of mortality than an animal! These are powerful mysteries. The bellowing of bulls. Springs of honey bubbling from the ground. If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. Then spit us out reborn
Some recent sketches I made on CSP! I’ve had the program for years now yet I still barely know how to use it, but that’s going to change soon (hopefully)
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