February 2012
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Uptown Problems Magazine: kierkegaard's repetition →
“So soon as his creative activity was awakened he had enough to occupy him for his whole life, especially if he rightly understood himself and confined himself to the snug domestic delight of intellectual occupations and the enjoyment of imagination as a pastime, which is the most perfect surrogate for love, is far from entailing love’s troubles and fatalities, and yet bears an express likeness...
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“If one takes the sayings of the New Testament not as commandments but as...”
– Excerpt from A Guest at the Spa from Autobiographical Writings by Hermann Hesse
Translated by Denver Lindley
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“If I were a composer, I could without difficulty write a melody for two voices,...”
– Excerpt from A Guest at the Spa from Autobiographical Writings by Hermann Hesse
Translated by Denver Lindley
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“And so today I stood again for awhile in front of these pictures and since I...”
– Excerpt from A Guest at the Spa from Autobiographical Writings by Hermann Hesse
Translated by Denver Lindley
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“The theory of books is noble. The scholar of the first age received into him the...”
– Excerpt from The American Scholar, an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Today I also spend some minutes in front of the store windows on Badestrasse. In...”
– Excerpt from A Guest at the Spa from Autobiographical Writings by Hermann Hesse
Translated by Denver Lindley
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Uptown Problems Magazine: more emerson →
“A man’s power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth and his desire to communicate it without loss. The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. When simplicity of character and the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires,— the desire of...