"Seneca believed...arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the mind's weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style."
Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy, Vintage Books, 2000. p 92.
"The magic of words still remains for me. I prefer them to ideas."
Chicago newspaperman Ben Hecht, quoted by Ron Powers, in The Beast, the Eunuch, and the Glass-Eyed Child. New York: Anchor Books, 1990. p xvii.
"Truth did not come into the world naked, but it came in the types and images. It (the world) will not receive it in any other fashion."
Gospel of Philip
"I realized that only in music could I find the answer I was seeking to the questions of the previous evening. Argument I could follow, it weighed with me, yet I could decide nothing from it.
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Fred Hoyle. October the First is Too Late. Connecticut: Fawcett, 1966, 1968. p 156.
"Walking is the clearest way for me to participate in life, I think, and that’s the best I can do."
Lizzy Stewart, Walking Distance, Avery Publishing, 2019. Excerpted as
An Ode to Women Who Walk,
From Virginia Woolf to Greta Gerwig on LitHub, November 21, 2019.
"But I think everyone should have a little philosophy, Thomas said. It helps, a little. It helps. It is good. It is about half as good as music."
Donald Barthelme. The Dead Father. New York: Pocket Books, 1975. p 76.
"The process is hidden, but the input and output are very clear, and as AI will say “I’m only here for you” – aww, very cute! Very esoteric! But also very political… These you can find in the black box. Nadim Samman speaks about these black boxes, but also black sites and holes in Poetics of Encryption. I cannot dare to imagine a black site, which is a physical space but hidden, inaccessible infrastructures, where some CERN ritual kind of occult event lives, as a giant portal of energy. Because we already know tech people like Blake Lemoine and Ilya Sutskever are into cybermagick – “Feel the AGI!” – full-blown silicon demon vibes. I like that little idea of mine, call it occult dreaming – signs, intuition, or just happy crisis conspiracy mass-psychotic thinking because the world is burning, prices are burning, towns are burning, people are burning, living hell, as a medieval kind of tech where witchcraft equals hell breaking loose (dansk: lig med bål og brand), literally lig (corpse) bål og brand (bonfire/fire), as Helena Blavatsky will say “Error runs down an inclined plane, while Truth has to laboriously climb its way up hill.” And for the black hole, the total Lovecraftian epistemic collapsed. Not the revolutionary collapse I’ve had in mind…"
— Sabine Wedege, The Shoggoth in the Chthulucene: Using Magic to Understand Modern Tech, IDOART, May 23, 2026
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