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soracities · 2 years
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Simone Weil, “Attention and Will” (trans. Emma Crauford), Simone Weil: An Anthology
[Text ID: “Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love.
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.”]
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llovelymoonn · 2 years
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i am learning to love myself again
simone weil simone weil: an anthology: "void and compensation" (tr. emma craufurd) (via @soracities) \\ sandra cisneros on being with krista tippett: "sandra cisneros: a house of her own" (via @weltenwellen) \\ adonis selected poems (tr. khaled mattawa) \\ richard siken crush: "litany in which certain things are crossed out"
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indecisivegloom · 1 year
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do you happen to have any recs ie: books/readings on christian mysticism + theology? i've read a bit about catherine of siena for a history class in university and found her fascinating but i'm not quite sure where further to look as i am very much unfamiliar with the subject - ty !!!! <3
a strange quirk, you might say, of christianity is that we have mystical theology but we struggle to make practical sense of it. mysticism, especially when it presents in women, is often treated as dreaminess or romanticized rather than as authoritative theology (meister eckhart, augustine, and john of the cross, for instance, are regarded as authoritative in a very different way than catherine, hildegard, or teresa of avila, even though all of these women are doctors of the church and were regarded authoritatively in their lifetime). so i'll recommend some theologians who work within mysticism, but i earnestly think that the best way to learn about mysticism is by reading mystical texts themselves, my recommendations of which i'll list below.
bernard mcginn is arguably the foremost authority on christian mysticism. the varieties of vernacular mysticism, the crisis of mysticism, and his anthology the essential writings of christian mysticism is a very good primer with a wide variety of texts. caroline bynum walker is not a theologian but she's another major authority: holy feast and holy fast, jesus as mother, and wonderful blood are good books, but she's written a lot of wonderful papers as well: i especially like her reply to leo steinberg and  women mystics and eucharistic devotion in the thirteenth century. michael sells is good too- a wonderful comparative religious theologian and i recommend his book mystical languages of unsaying.
in terms of mystics, simone weil's waiting for god and gravity and grace are indispensable; hildegard of bingen's scivias; teresa of avila's the interior castle, the way of perfection, and autobiography; marguerete porete's the mirror of simple souls; mechthild of magdeberg the flowing light of the godhead; mother maria skobtsova's essential writings; catherine of siena's dialogue; the book of margery kempe. you might also like the way of the cross by john of the cross and the work of meister eckhart. but i highly recommend getting mcginn's anthology- it was how i started off and is without a doubt the best way to begin getting a feel for mysticism.
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hairtusk · 8 months
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do you have a goodreads? what are some books you like?
i don't have a goodreads account! i'm terrible at tracking what i read (and it would've been impossible over the last three years of studying literature at university anyway). as for the second part of your question - it's extremely difficult for me to answer, so i'm going to interpret it as my favourite books of the last couple of years, and break it down into fiction and non-fiction (i already have a pending ask about my favourite poetry collections, so i'll leave poetry out of this list)
each title has a link to the appropriate goodreads entry
literary fiction
• the woman destroyed by simone de beauvoir
• sleepless nights by elizabeth hardwick
• belladonna by daša drndić
• play it as it lays by joan didion
• the awakening by kate chopin
• o caledonia by elspeth barker
• the collector by john fowles
• maurice by e.m. forster
• oranges are not the only fruit by jeanette winterson
• the bell jar by sylvia plath
• we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson
• morvern callar by alan warner
• rebecca by daphne du marier
non-fiction
• the unabridged journals of sylvia plath by sylvia plath
• simone weil: an anthology by simone weil
• illness as metaphor by susan sontag
• medieval writings on female spirituality ed. elizabeth spearing
• intercourse by andrea dworkin
• the white album by joan didion
• m train by patti smith
• essential essays: culture, politics, and the art of poetry by adrienne rich
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1. // 2. Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart // 3. Simone Weil, An Anthology of Selected Writings // 4. // 5. Czesław Miłosz, from “The Song.” // 6. L’Amica Geniale, Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay // 7. Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 // 8. Third Eye - Florence + The Machine, art by @sunsbleeding // 9. Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1964 // 10. Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays
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bakaity-poetry · 1 year
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~ Simone Weil - An Anthology, pg 260
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swallowerofdharma · 11 months
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Interesting thinkers from XX century war-consumed Europe
I wish more people were paying more attention to them, instead of studying and repeating ad nauseam the older views of men of the XIX century still considered figures of authority, like Hegel or Freud.
Feel free to add to it, as I definitely lack knowledge on east European thinkers and their legacies.
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Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, Carla Lonzi, Alice Miller, Pierre Bourdieu, Pier Paolo Pasolini
I’m linking brief articles available in English to give an idea of what they are writing about, but for certain ideas, it is often necessary to go to their books: some of the things they said can’t be fully understood out of the context of their longer dissertations.
Hannah Arendt, What remains? The Language Remains”, 1964
Simone Weil, The Iliad, or the Poem of Force, 1940
Alice Miller, Preface from For Your Own Good, Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence, 1982
Pierre Bourdieu, The Forms of Capital, 1986
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Corsair Writings, 1973-1975
For Carla Lonzi I couldn’t find anything in English that was brief AND significant. But there is an English anthology of her writings under the title Feminism in Revolt, although I like the original title better “Let’s spit on Hegel”.
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virgin-martyr · 6 months
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Preference for a human being can be of two kinds. Either we are seeking some particular good in him or we need him. In a general way all possible attachments come under one of these heads. We are drawn towards a thing, either because there is some good we are seeking from it, or because we cannot do without it. Sometimes the two motives coincide. Often however they do not.
Simone Weil, excerpt from "Friendship" Simone Weil: An Anthology
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wateryrealm · 10 months
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i love ur taste in books, they’re so dreamy! may i ask where u discover / hear abt most of ur books? and who are ur fave writers?
ahh thank you so much! 🤍 my answer for my current self is kind of boring, mainly because nowadays i usually find new books through the books i’m reading, and that can just go on infinitely…
but when i was younger and a lot hungrier for new things (and this is how i found a lot of my current favorites!) i tried looking at: literary magazines (granta, paris review, glimmer train, fairy tale review, etc.); literary anthologies; syllabi reading lists from scholars i admired/class topics i was interested in; books/interviews by writers i liked discussing other writers; book podcasts (the only one i remember atm is the bbc’s in our time); topics i liked on jstor (and noting which books were mentioned); and lastly, tumblr :-) still grateful to all the blogs here that posted quotes for my little teen self to find!
and the writers i’ve loved foreeever now are: virginia woolf, italo calvino, marilynne robinson, roberto bolaño, theresa hak kyung cha, emily dickinson, anne carson, simone weil, friedrich hölderlin, and solmaz sharif 🌟 they grow more mysterious and fun each time i revisit them like a good friend :-)
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useless magic: lyrics and poetry - florence welch // carmilla - joseph sheridan le fanu // poem of the end, bride of ice - marina tsveteva // attention and will, simone weil: an anthology - simone weil // finale - jules ryan gravecleaner // @/avainblue on tumblr // sue zhao
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soracities · 2 years
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Simone Weil, “Prerequisite to Dignity of Labour” (trans. Siân Miles), Simone Weil: An Anthology
[Text ID: “Desire is a tendency, the start of a movement towards something, towards a point from which one is absent.”]
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llovelymoonn · 2 years
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Can I get something about jealousy (like "romantically" way. Obsession about someone and jealousy
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novana venerable flesh of mine \\ rené magritte le pain quotidien ["daily bread"] (1942) \\ simone weil simone weil: an anthology" attention and will" (via @soracities; tr. emma crauford) \\ you \\ philip pullman the amber spyglass \\ salvador plascencia the people of paper \\ stephan loeber-bottero abel & cain #9 the threat & the fight \\ anaïs nin the diary of anaïs nin, vol. 1: 1931-1934
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metamagicadept · 1 year
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attention taken to its highest degree is the same thing as prayer. it presupposes faith and love. absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.​       – Simone Weil, “Attention and Will” (trans. Emma Crauford), Simone Weil: An Anthology
DOCTOR JESPER JUNG, (he/him).  mercy monk, half elf, seraph transformation               commissioned by @feygraves
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hairtusk · 2 years
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from Simone Weil: An Anthology (introduction by Siân Wiles)
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spikybanana · 2 years
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Get to know me game (!)
thank you so much for the tags!!! @everythingbutcoldfire @tracingpatternswrites <3<3<3
Favorite color: blue blue blue every shade of it
Currently reading: um. Nietzsche's The Gay Science, an anthology of Simone Weil; both of which I'm half-daydreaming through. Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Tao Te Ching (still) (it's not a book you finish reading ig), and a biography of John Curry (a British figure skater). These are the books I've read some amount in the last three days. There are 10+ books in my currently reading list. It's not great I should stop. (I'm not going to) Tho tbf half of those are philosophy shit.
Last song: I've got on some random instrumental playlist to write to so ig that doesn't count- the last I remember listening to was Irreplaceable by Citizen Soldier, which I blame @heartofspells for.
Last series: nothing this summer!
Last movie: Hamilton! It was on the mid-autumn festival, we watched the moon and sang along to non stop while making dumplings it was v cute.
Currently working on: eeeeeek. This wild af fantasy au made of microfics. and I'm so excited. I can't believe I even came up with a plot for once. idek how to describe what I'm doing, mostly breaking linear time while still telling a linear story?? One of the reasons I loved PoA so much was the time travel plot, and I've loved every fic where something like it comes up, but I want and need a story that just breaks reality with its weird ass metaphysical soup. I don't know if I'll manage but hey this is my attempt.
ok um I have no idea who's done it so I'll leave open tag! pls pls go ahead if you wanna & tag me back!
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