Three songs that go well together:
“Vienna” by Billy Joel
“Vienna” by Ultravox
“Leipzig” by Thomas Dolby
Archive for March, 2009
Central European melancholy
Posted in Music on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What accompanies us
Posted in Books, Quotation on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Among all forms of prehistoric religion, the strangest and most difficult to understand in our own day seems the cult of the dead, the constant presence of the dead in every aspect of life. To a prehistoric man, in contrast, our strangest and most mysterious form of worship would be our use of books. Yet [...]
Life after the end of sacrifice
Posted in History, Quotation on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In his book The Ruin of Kasch, Roberto Calasso argues that humanity lost an important outlet when we banned the ritual of sacrifice, because the craving to sacrifice now permeates life rather than being bounded and limited by the tradition of a ritual. The Aztecs killed a few to (as they saw it) appease their [...]
