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====In the Dust of This Planet - Eugene Thacker==== | ====In the Dust of This Planet — Eugene Thacker==== |
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[[reading notes]] from In the Dust of This Planet, Eugene Thacker. | [[reading notes]] from In the Dust of This Planet, Eugene Thacker. |
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<blockquote>when you are "nowhere" physically, you are "everywhere" spiritually…Never mind if you cannot fathom this nothing, for I love it surely so much the better. ~ The Cloud of Unknowing</blockquote> | <blockquote>when you are "nowhere" physically, you are "everywhere" spiritually…Never mind if you cannot fathom this nothing, for I love it surely so much the better. ~ The Cloud of Unknowing</blockquote> |
<blockquote>The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.3</blockquote> | <blockquote>The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.3</blockquote> |
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<blockquote> * Darkthrone's Transylvanian Hunger | * Darkthrone's Transylvanian Hunger |
* Emperor's Wrath of the Tyrant | * Emperor's Wrath of the Tyrant |
* Gorgoroth's Pentagram | * Gorgoroth's Pentagram |
* Sunn O)))'s Grimmrobe Demos | * Sunn O)))'s Grimmrobe Demos |
* Wold's Stratification | * Wold's Stratification |
* Keiji Haino. So, Black is Myself</blockquote> | * Keiji Haino. So, Black is Myself |
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<blockquote>That demons really exist seems to be verified by the cross-cultural acceptance of supernatural forces of some type, that may be rendered to varying degrees as animalistic or anthropomorphic, and that display a general antagonism towards all of humanity (and in some cases, the world itself).</blockquote> | <blockquote>That demons really exist seems to be verified by the cross-cultural acceptance of supernatural forces of some type, that may be rendered to varying degrees as animalistic or anthropomorphic, and that display a general antagonism towards all of humanity (and in some cases, the world itself).</blockquote> |
<blockquote>Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles de Quadrupèdes, òu l’on Rétablit les Caractères de Plusieurs Espèces d’Animaux que les Révolutions du Globe Paroissent avoir Détruites. </blockquote> | <blockquote>Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles de Quadrupèdes, òu l’on Rétablit les Caractères de Plusieurs Espèces d’Animaux que les Révolutions du Globe Paroissent avoir Détruites. </blockquote> |
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<blockquote>Journal of Literary Psychoplamsics (volume 4, issue 6), ed. Sonia Haft-Greene, on "The Post-Mystical," which features scholarly articles on the poem and its relevance.</blockquote> | <blockquote>Journal of Literary Psychoplamsics (volume 4, issue 6), ed. Sonia Haft-Greene, on "The Post-Mystical," which features scholarly articles on the poem and its relevance. </blockquote> |
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