Dear reader, I must apologize from the depths of my alcohol rotted spleen about the long delay in reporting on the journal of my dear yet eccentric friend Daniel Williams. It is unforgivable, but the truth is that I have been chained up in a cellar in Nepal for the last month by Maoist rebels, and while there was beaten roundly on a daily basis and forced to eat rancid yak meat and drink soured goat milk at rifle point. I was sodomized with goat horns routinely and I have no regrets.In fact, I now have a goat, but that is another story. So, I must again apologize that such a trifling affair would keep me from the responsibilty that has fallen onto my shoulders, and yet it is a responsibility that only I have the perscpetive to meet and convey to you, the curious and riveted reader. Allow me some time to remove some more splinters from inside my ear canal and open a bottle of brandy, and I promise that I will find a passage to make your long and tortured somewhat worth the distress. God help us all.
12:10 PM - 12/13/2005 -
Your Spleen
I came across your blog, and this particular entry as a result of my own inquiries into what I had for a time began suspecting of my own spleen; namely that it was rotted by alcohol.
Upon investigation however, I have come to the conclusion that the penundrum in which that particular organ of mine now presently finds itself is almost certainly a direct result of pesticide and other residual agricultural chemical residues in the food supply.
The fact that Nepal is notably notorious for overuse of such harmful chemicals adds weight to this suspicion. It is a well known fact that many pesticides can cause harm to the spleen in particular as well as other organs in the human body. (Although in all fairness I must say that most of such conclusions come as a result of experiment on Bonobo monkey's.)
Communist's are notorious for their lack of care as to the extent of these same residues in their crops. I drank Chinese green tea for a year only to discover that it has massive quanties of DDT and dioxin in it recently!
My advice is two-fold: Give up food. And pray to St. Baudelaire patron saint of spleens for an immediate recovery.
God Bless,
Hermann Hess
Anonymous - 1:46 PM - 12/13/2005
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Hi again!
I've not heard of Schopenhauer's The World as Representation until you mentioned it but I will certainly look it up in our local bookstores and see what it's about- the title sounds ambitious!-
Yes I do have access to a lot of good books and even foreign language books. These books can be found in big bookstores like Kinokuniya and Borders. Also because i'm a university student I can access many good literature in the library at no cost. I am also interested to read about what philosophers today think of the world we live in and how they respond to the earlier thoughts and ideas that have been brought forward over the last few centuries. So if you happen to know of any good contemporary works you know where to drop a note!
But I am currently stuck in a stack of books- i'm trying to finish a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Engl. translation- not a page turner I tell you! I have to be very patient and let it seep into me.
I'm not sure if native speakers like the English and Americans find any barrier in reading philosophy because it is always written in rather convoluted sentences and without first hand introduction by secondary works, these works are not very easily accessible to me. Sometimes I read a few times. Maybe it's just the way philosophy being a very abstract genre that necessitates certain creative customization of the language, resulting in rather extended expressions.
I saw some of your photos at MSN Spaces. EVerything is in chinese goodness. How do you survive. Chinese is a rather difficult language to learn. You have all my blessings in mastering it! My academic second language is the Malay Language but I can speak and understand daily Mandarin conversation and my dialect is Cantonese.. but i can't even write my own name in Chinese because I was never schooled in the language. I took very basic modules in introd. french and Japanese in university and love them both. But I think, like you, I would like to immerse myself in a foreign culture like Russia!
**the Commentarius Perpetuus category is so interesting and the writing is so like H.P Lovecraft, a early 20th c. gothic writer but nevermind... the pictures are quite disturbing..**
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