Immanuel Joseph's Blog

“Literature was NOT born the day when a boy crying “WOOF! WOOF!” came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray “woof” at his heels;

…literature was born on the day when a boy came crying “Wolf, Wolf!” and there was no 🐺 behind him!”

– Vladimir Nabokov (on Kafka)

“We were supposed to take on the world,
But every day pulled us further…
We’ve gotten used to live in a world
That doesn’t want us around!
Yeah
Torn apart
Yeah
Torn apart”

– Avatar

“While the human mind acts as a relation-factory seeking spiritual intimacy or philosophical meaning, the “Real” remains a unilateral force that refuses to participate in, or be captured by, these mental fictions.”

– NotebookLM