James's Sentiment of Rationality; Swept Away; self-mastery; masturbation; dreams; AMP? Muddle-heads and Simple-minds; Luther quote; Kamp Solutions
Category: Hemlock Club
Maya and Mysticism: Diary 10/6 to 10/10/21
Rejection of "Maya"; Nietzsche's Will to Power; Russell, Heraclitus, and Spinoza quotes; dreams; Hemlock Club frustrations; Thick Nhat Hanh's "suchness"; and atomic vibration and inertia.
Finished My Book: Diary, 9/20 to 9/26/21
Joy and depression; Tasty Words a hit at Hemlock Club; purple hair; no free car, sorry; Bullet Journal; a Simpsons dream; homeless family.
Philosophy Today: Diary 9/11 to 9/12/21
In which I argue with, or go beyond, quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Camus, Walter Kaufmann, and Bertrand Russell. Plus movie review and Hemlock Club notes and the usual blather.
Club Notes: Diary, 9/2 to 9/5/21
Bad movies reviewed; Nietzsche's Gay Science; John Cleese book; Hemlock Club discussion of Gandhi, Napoleon, Tolstoy, and Meaning of Life; Pablo's sadness; bedbugs slaughtered.
Ballet and Dracula: Diary, 8/6 to 8/15/21
Blocked by Oliver; Stigmata DVD; Hemlock Club meetings; editing woes; did Ma want a girl instead of me? Reading Tod Browning's Dracula; a dozen movies dissed; book splurge.
Writers and Characters: Diary, 7/7 to 7/11/21
Two ways to think about characters; Hesse's Steppenwolf; writers being silly; quotes from Graves & Hodge concluded; Dunst as Marie Antoinette; Nicolas Cage movies; Hemlock Club meeting and novel.
The Reader: Diary, 7/1 to 7/6/21
The Reader Over Your Shoulder (book); movie reviews including Interstellar, Bright Star, and others; Hemlock Club meeting; colons and semicolons.
