Когда же черт возьмет тебя!

cynical jouissance

nice to meet ya’ll

sloterdijk?

decades of implacable certainty
may also be carved

on my way!

Don't be afraid to break your piece into pieces - it's easier to play than to invent, and the more you give, the more your fame will increase.

But beware - if you give them a whole, they will pick it apart.

that age where the social forces made unequal by fate and nature would be properly and fruitfully organized and where the ideal would not be shattered by the inevitable limitations of reality, but be purified and strengthened instead.

Musil - The Man Without Qualities

By the persistent and disciplined honing of his own personality, by his intellectual grasp of the economic and social complexes at hand, and by giving thought to the leadership and structure of the state as a whole, he hoped to help bring the new era to birth…

But Blue Sky will allow man to flourish only if the brave old mould is not broke, and if the highland breed survives with heroes and wits, inventive eyes and hands that stablish what these see. So, let us not sink into the swamp, but find in Blue Sky a place of heroic grace.

Here, man finds a fastness to fight pollution of the mind and to stem the insanity of towns with simpleness for stratagem.

In this place, man is lifted to the blue deep where stars keep their perfect courses, and is lured by wise preceptors to sound the science of the sky, and carry learning to its height of untried power and sane delight.