Anyway, Ginsberg came up, introduced himself and announced he wanted to fuck Bobby. And I said, “Well, hello, what’s holding you back?” And he said “I’m shy”. I said “Isn’t that sad?” I can’t remember much more about that meeting except that’s all Ginsberg wanted to talk about. I was a little insulted myself. I hadn’t realised he wouldn’t have any interest in me at all and was just using me to get to Bobby. Then Bobby was completely and totally drunk. We got him out in the car and he was, oh, maudlin. I don’t remember what he was saying, but I said “Ginsberg wants to go to bed with you,” and he said “Oh, oh, far out,” and then he passed out…
—Joan Baez (via saltforsalt)
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In Cold Blood - William Burroughs Curse on Truman Capote
Capote’s increasing success occurred during a period in which Kerouac and Burroughs experienced frustration in following their own respective debut novels, The Town and the City (1950) and Junkie (1953). Hence it is understandable that, as his fame grew, Capote became a figure of intermittent ridicule for the struggling writers.
Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil (Human, All Too Human, BBC) ¹/₃
The first episode is titled Beyond Good and Evil, which is about Friedrich Nietzsche and his gradual shift from religion, to nihilism, and finally to insanity. His sister presented the National Socialists (Nazis) with heavily modified versions of Nietzsche’s writings that were interpreted as a pro-Nazi agenda; to advance the superior race of the Übermensch, the “superman”, the perfect Aryan.
(Source: sophistsociety)
- Marhaenisme adalah sosio – nasionalisme dan sosio – demokrasi
- Marhaen adalah kaum proletar Indonesia, petani Indonesia yang miskin dan orang Indonesia lainnya yang miskin
- Marhaen bukan proletar karena pengeertian proletar telah tercakup di dalam kata Marhaen, sedangkan kata Marhaen bisa juga tidak mencakup pada petani dn orang – orang lainnya yang miskin
- Orang-orang miskin Indonesia yang lain juga harus ambil bagian dalam perjuangan kemerdekaan, maka digunakanlah kata Marhaen
- Di dalam perjuangan kaum Marhaen, kaum proletar akan merebut bagian yang terpenting
- Marhaenisme adalah prinsip yang menghendaki suatu struktur dan tertib sosial yang melayani kaum Marhaen dalam segala hal
- Marhaenisme juga merupakan cara perjuangan untuk mencapai struktur sosial dan tertib sosial ini dan karenanya haruslah bersifat revolusioner
- Jadi, Marhaenisme adalah suatu cara perjuangan dan sekaligus juga prinsipnya yang bertujuan mengusir setiap bentuk kapitalisme dan imperialism
- Orang Indonesia yang mempraktekkan Marhaenisme adalah Marhaen
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Woody Allen, 1935.
“There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better , but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.”
Jean-Paul Sartre Summary
A highly summarised but nonetheless interesting introduction to Existential principles of Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Long before there was Wikileaks, there was Ralph Ginzburg’s fact – a provocative platform for inconvenient truths circa the 1960s
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1896 - 1940.
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
