Notes From A Room
Blog URL http://www.notesfromaroom.com
Located Norwich, Norfolk United Kingdom
Tags writing, fiction, poetry, religion, books, writers, prose, philosophy, literature
Prose, poetry, quotes.
Latest Blog Posts
- on Nov 22, 2009 in Simon Critchley
Q. How did you get into philosophy in the first place? A. Failure. – Simon Critchley...
- Comedy and tragedy on Nov 22, 2009 in Simon Critchley
Comedy is much more tragic than tragedy, I always think, and much more about death. Tragedy is about making death meaningful – with some exceptions: you could say that in Sophocles’s Oedipus at Colonus there’s a different relationship t...
- The refusal on Nov 21, 2009 in Kafka
In all important matters, however, the citizens can always count on a refusal. And now the strange fact is that without this refusal one simply cannot get along, yet at the same time these official occasions designed to receive the refusal are by no...
- Advocates on Nov 21, 2009 in Kafka
I was not at all certain whether I had any advocates, I could not find out anything definite about it, every face was unfriendly, most people who came toward me and whom I kept meeting in the corridors looked like fat old women; they had huge blue-an...
- Delay on Nov 21, 2009 in Writing
‘I kept getting delayed, as in a dream, and my delay became its own arrival.’...
- on Nov 20, 2009 in Tarkovsky
The aim of art is to prepare a person for death. – Tarkovsky...
- on Nov 19, 2009 in Tarkovsky
‘Have you come to pray for a baby too? Or to be spared them?’ ‘I’m just looking.’ ‘If there are any casual onlookers who aren’t supplicants, then nothing happens.’ ‘What is supposed to happen?’ ‘Whatever you like, whatever you n...
