human vs. inhuman

"The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)..."
c.s. lewis

"At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman."
camus

turn the page, let it move

evrim kavcar, 2010, december, animation in progress

a moment of Niklas Luhmann

haven't set the title yet

just a moment

as he turns a page in luhmann's book, the metro moves

it is the turning of a page that makes the metro move

"What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space."
italo calvino

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Die Dämonen (The Demons) / orientation: we are relatives

HEIMITO VON DODERER / Die Dämonen (The Demons)

The action is squeezed between the autumn of 1926 and the summer of 1927 and, from the first moment on, the events lead up to the burning down of the Ministry of Justice, to which Doderer refers as a “crushing blow for Austrian freedom”…

http://cambridgeforecast.wordpress.com/2006/10/16/

On the cover flaps of his great work Die Dämonen (The Demons) the

following text appears:

“The Demons is one of the most important novels about city life to be

written in this century. Figures from the Viennese upper middle class and the nobility,

workers and intellectuals, mingle with characters from the demi-monde and the underworld

and are woven into an ambivalent social web. Behind the elegant charms of tea parties and

tennis tournaments lurk insecurity, political instability and sexual dissoluteness. The

action is squeezed between the autumn of 1926 and the summer of 1927 and, from the first

moment on, the events lead up to the burning down of the Ministry of Justice, to which

Doderer refers as a “crushing blow for Austrian freedom”…Although the

destinies of the individual characters are connected mostly indirectly with this historic

event, it is part of Doderer’s creative composition that several of their live’s problems

are solved on this day.

Doderer himself regarded The Demons, on which he worked from 1931 to 1940 and

then again from 1951 to 1956, as his main work and constructed Die Strudlhofstiege

(1951) especially to serve as a “ramp” for it.

In The Demons we meet many characters from the Strudlhofstiege again but

the novel also describes the fire at the Ministry of Justice, which marked the beginning

of an increasingly serious conflict between the Conservative and Socialist parties of the time, culminating in the civil war of 1934 and the ensuing authoritarianism of the corporate state. Alongside the gripping story a creative web of multiple strands which are

then unravelled Doderer,as in all his novels, weaves in a second layer of philosophical,

astonishingly direct reflections.

For his own orientation through the complicated network

of the plot, he prepared “blueprints” on a piece of paper, which he then fixed

onto a wooden board.

intrinsic ridicule / tolerating existence /flaubert visited

"What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the sense of the small-scale ridiculousness of slap-stick comedy, but rather in the sense of ridiculousness that seems intrinsic to human life and that manifests itself in the simplest actions and the most extraordinary gestures. "

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"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy."
— Gustave Flaubert

voyager and sea / 1, 2, 3: murakami

1

"It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart."

2

"Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear."

3

"For both of us, it had simply been too enormous an experience. We shared it by not talking about it. Does this make any sense?"

2 Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

3 Haruki Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle)

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