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willow
dotesmite appreciation post
willow
listening to her is actually incredibly emotionally for me. there are vanishingly few times in my life where i have felt understood in this way and able to resonate with someone's experiences and emotions on the particular dimensions she discusses. i am so appreciative.
willow
nietzsche, the gay science, preface to the second edition
willow
this is actually a wholly inadequate passage for the contextual significance i'm experiencing but if i use my own words it would be offensively inapt to dotes' mode of impressionistic presentation
willow
though also that is simply an excuse to leave the unexpress-able (translation: me being unwilling to express, both publicly and to myself) unexpressed
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nietzsche, the gay science, preface Oh, those Greeks! They knew how to live. What is required for that is to stop courageously at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore appearance, to believe in forms, tones, words, in the whole Olympus of appearance. Those Greeks were superficial—out of profundity. And is not this precisely what we are coming back to, we daredevils of the spirit who have climbed the highest and most dangerous peak of present thought and looked around from up there—we who have looked down from there? Are we not, precisely in this respect, Greeks? Adorers of forms, of tones, of words? And therefore-artists?