The Mystical Man

This is great:

@Jannes We're done with that, so...

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Good documentary:

Now I understand why Melville admired Hawthorne. Hawthorne's eloquent use of vocabulary is sublime.

"You need to become a formidable force of man that cannot be replaced or replicated."

35 days. I signed up for the gym. Now I need to develop a daily writing habit.

I ordered it. I hope it's as good as you say it is.

Possibly. I can only compare German and English. Actually, I learned Turkish first, but now it's the language I know the least. That's a stereotype. When I read Patrick Süskind, German sounds very beautiful. And in the hands of Goethe, German sounds soft. Language is one of the most fascinating things there is. "English grew out of the merger of two languages, Anglo-Saxon, a dialect of Old German, and Old French, a dialect of Latin. As a result, the vocabulary of the language that became modern English immediately doubled. English has at least two words for everything. In fact, with more than a million words, the English vocabulary offers near-inexhaustible choices." - Robert McKee How English became a double language (excerpt from Dialogue by McKee): After the Romans conquered England in the first century AD, they hired German and Scandinavian mercenaries from Anglia and Saxony to help fend off pirates and put down rebellions by the native Picts and Celts. When the Roman Empire abandoned England in 410 AD, more Anglo-Saxons migrated to the island, marginalizing the Gallic-speaking Celts, wiping out the Latin of the Romans, and imposing their Germanic tongue throughout England. But 600 years later Latin came back this roundabout way: In 911 AD Danish Vikings conquered territory along the north coast of France and named it after themselves, Normandy, land of the Norsemen. After 150 years of marriage to French women, these Danes spoke what their mothers spoke, a thousand-year-old French dialect of Latin. In 1066 King Wilhelm of Normandy (a.k.a. William the Conqueror) led his armies across the English Channel and defeated the English king. With that victory, French came to England. Throughout history, foreign conquests usually erase native languages. But England was the exception. For some mysterious reason, the Germanic language of the Anglo-Saxons and the Latinate French of the Normans merged. As a result, the vocabulary of what became modern English doubled. English has at least two words for everything. Compare, for example, the Germanic-rooted words “fire,” “hand,” “tip,” “ham,” and “flow” to the French-derived words “flame,” “palm,” “point,” “pork,” and “fluid.”

Words Shakespeare Invented

Adyashanti on Embracing the Reality of Sorrow: https://adyashanti.opengatesangha.org/teachings/library/writing?&nstart=1&start=4#embracing-the-reality-of-sorrow "Paradoxically, to face the totality of life we must face the reality of death, sorrow, and loss as well. We must face them as unavoidable aspects of life. The question is, can we face them directly without getting lost in the stories that our mind weaves about them? That is, can we directly encounter this tragic quality of life on its own terms? Because if we can, we will find a tremendous affirmation of life, an affirmation that is forged in the fierce embrace of tragedy."

There can be an end to an immense amount of suffering in this lifetime.

5% of the suffering and pain is unavoidable, because birth, life, and death are simply difficult. The good news is that 95% of the suffering is self-inflicted out of unconsciousness. But no one escapes the 5%, not even the most enlightened ones. Did Jesus escape anything?

I found a rare interview with Jo: https://www.abc.net.au/tv/firsttuesday/s3599768.htm

This is too adorable: "Is he gonna come in here? He's gonna kick my ass." ?

The presentation went well. I never want to masturbate again. The ability to think and speak is too important. Let's continue with DDD: