Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure
Source: L’Expérience Intérieure (1943), p. 12
“Relearn astonishment, stop grasping for knowledge, lose the habit of the past.”
J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 146
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)
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Magnus Björnstjerna (1779–1847) Swedish count and general (1779-1847)
Source: Count Magnus Fredrik Ferdinand Bjornstjerna in: The Theogony of the Hindoos with Their System of Philosophy and Cosmogony by Count M. Björnstjerna https://books.google.co.in/books?id=mHNK92IkdUkC&pg=PA85, Murray, 1844 , p. 85.
“Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.”
Aesop (-620–-564 BC) ancient Greek storyteller
The Dog and the Shadow.
Rob Enderle (1954) American financial analyst
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Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
“Got to keep losing horses," he said drowsily. "Bad habit.”
John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower
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Charles Olson (1910–1970) American writer
Part I, 4
The Kingfishers (1950)
Context: We can be precise. The factors are
in the animal and / or the machine the factors are
communication and / or control, both involve
the message. And what is the message? The message is
a discrete or continuous sequence of measurable events distributed in time is the birth of the air, is
the birth of water, is
a state between
the origin and
the end, between
birth and the beginning of
another fetid nest is change, presents
no more than itself And the too strong grasping of it,
when it is pressed together and condensed,
loses it This very thing you are
