Folio

The nuptial number in Plato’s Republic is a mysterious mathematical formula that appears in Book VIII when Socrates explains how even the ideal city will eventually decline. Plato claims that the rulers must understand certain numerical and geometrical cycles governing human reproduction and the proper timing of marriages. If they miscalculate these cycles, children will […]

Walt Disney Art School 1933

The art school opened in 1933. After Pinocchio came union strikes. In 1942 it closed and Disney Company remains union run. goodnight 1 The words of the Preacher⁠, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity⁠. 3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? […]

HIV

لَهُۥ دَعْوَةُ ٱلْحَقِّ ۖ Supplication to God is the truth. Are all immoral acts evil? For Kant, the answer is not quite. Kant draws a distinction between an action being morally wrong and a person being evil. An immoral act is one that violates the moral law, meaning it fails to conform to what reason […]

Smor

ye cannot be saved in your sins. alma 11:37 Now, it was for the sole purpose to get gain, because they received their wages according to their employ, therefore, they did stir up the people to riotings, and all manner of disturbances and wickedness, that they might have more employ, that they might get money […]

Nat King Cole Trio

ذَٰلِكَ مِنْ أَنۢبَآءِ ٱلْغَيْبِ نُوحِيهِ إِلَيْكَ ۖ These are tidings of the unseen that We reveal to you Every form of “saying” depends on a kind of distance that it cannot eliminate. Communication already contains misunderstanding as a structural condition; writing already introduces the split between intention and readability; history depends on remnants that were […]

Xplor

Dear James Franco, This conversation can be distilled into a single evolving inquiry with four layers that gradually compress into one question: At the surface, it begins with theological and moral intuition (karma, causality, “the past shaping the future as gift”). This quickly destabilizes into a more radical claim: causality itself may not be fundamental, […]

Truma

Monday Could you write me a treatment for a short film / screenplay Yes. What kind of treatment are you looking for? A few details would help: If you already have an idea, even a fragment, send it and I can develop it into a professional treatment with logline, synopsis, character descriptions, visual style, and […]

Vermeiden

The German verb “to warn” is warnen. Examples: The English word warn and German warnen are closely related and come from the same Germanic root. Avertit is a French word from the verb avertir, meaning “to warn,” “to inform,” or “to notify.” Il avertit = “He warns” or “He informs.” Examples: Etymologically, avertir comes from […]

Holy

I’m watching this documentary on Hollywood and the founding of it, and watching it, you get the impression that the, how do you say, the oomph of cinema was in the hands of these studio heads, but the entire industry depended on quality films that had shelf life, and people like Murnau and Dreier and […]

Cinema Pt. 2

I asked Chat GPT to give me a false letter written by James Joyce about acquiring a movie theater, which he actually wanted to do. Instead, he signed it J.A.J. James Joyce doesn’t have a middle name. MA Trieste,some hour between the lamps and the quarrels of evening My dear ——, I have been turning […]

Serf

St. Petersburg, 13 March 1881 (old style), the city still held in winter’s grip as if unwilling to release its iron. Snow lay in compressed layers along the embankments of the Catherine Canal, not clean but greyed by soot and the passage of boots and wheels, so that the capital seemed less a city than […]

Fwry

In Speech and Phenomenon, or Voice and Phenomenon, Derrida says a lot about the supplement coming first. I couldn’t help but think of that when I was reading Immanuel Kant in the way that we are never dealing with the noumena, but our judgments of conditioned things. And in that way, the supplement comes first. […]

Gant

“If a hypochondriacal wind should rage in the guts, what matters is the direction it takes: if downwards, then the result is a fart; if upwards, an apparition or heavenly inspiration.” Kant and Gogol: A Comparative Analysis Executive Summary: This essay examines the thought of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) alongside the fiction of Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), […]