“The Sephiroth are also imagined as ten shells or casings around the innermost core of En Soph, the formless and ineffable centre of all being.
The Cabbalists called meditation on this Nothing-in-Everything, extrapolating from a verse in the Song of Solomon (6, 11), "Going down into the garden of nuts".
Shakespeare refers to this when he has Hamlet say, "O God! I could be bounded in a nut-shell, and count myself a king of infinite space".
And Joyce in Finnegans Wake:
"Mark Time's Finist Joke.
Putting Allspace in a Notshall".
Image: Sephiroth scroll, Poland, 19th century.
From “Alchemy & Mysticism” by Alexander Roob (2011).
Repeat after me:
The first draft just needs to exist
The second draft needs to be functional
The third draft needs to be effective
Remember, the second and third can't happen if you don't have something to work with. Your first draft will always be shit compared to your third, but at least it exists. The worst first draft is an unfinished one. The best first draft is a just completed one.
You read books/stories not in their first draft form-- only in their finished form (third, fourth, sometimes fifteenth draft). So stop comparing your first draft with a final one.
So, just write--you can make it better later. Perfectionism is the greatest weight a creator can carry.
sylvia plath, doomsday
dare i say goncharov vibes. dare i say clock motif
I showed her heights she never saw—
“Woulds’t climb?” I said,
She said, “Not so” —
“With me?” I said, “With me?”
I showed her secrets
Morning’s nest,
The rope that Nights were put across—
And now, “Would’st have me for a Guest?”
And she could not find her yes—
And then, I brake my life, and lo!
A light for her, did solemn glow,
The larger, as her face withdrew—
And could she, further, no?
- By Emily Dickinson
idk about you but recently i’ve been enjoying the slow rise of very particular “food themed” genre of cinema(?)(idk how else to describe it) where food must go on par with some sort of psychological thriller; bonus points if creators manage make it funny or weird, or both. main examples are The Menu (2022), The Bear (2022- ) and Drops of God (2023- )
and of course there is also subcategory devoted to cannibalism: Yellowjackets (2021-), Gannibal (2022) and upcoming tv-series The Horror of Dolores Roach (2023)
gotta say I am here for the friendships of the main 4. they went from strangers to ‘that seems like a shitty idea but I will help you and also yes I would die for you’. female friendships really are it.
whats it like to lock your fingers with someone you love
so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god