N. and I braved an early wintry evening last week for the music of Mozart’s Magic Flute at the State Theatre. We ate a quick meal at Sahara restaurant upstairs on Swanston Street. This restaurant has been renovated again since I last ate there. Several years ago there was a long communal table down the [...]
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The Magic Flute in Oz
Posted in Opera, tagged brotherhood, Derrida, Freemasonry, Mozart, music, Opera, The Gift of Death, The Magic Flute on May 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Director’s Cut
Posted in Books, Friendship, HY Art, work, Writing, tagged Bataille, danse macabre, death, Derrida, ethics, faith, Henry Miller, Love, Of Grammatology, philosophy, Sexus, Spinoza, Tom Waits, William Burroughs, Writing and Difference on February 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The mechanism of our ordinary knowledge is of a cinematographical kind. Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution The ancient Egyptians postulated seven souls. Top soul, and the first to leave at the moment of death, is Ren, the Secret Name. This corresponds to my Director. He directs the film of your life from conception to death. The [...]