A Project is a Problem
On Writing to Justify Life
Martijn Wallage
Writing about impasses in classic literature and philosophy.
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Fall of Sleep
Sleep you don’t live.
Io
When Io is transformed into a heifer, she writes her name in the sand with her hoof, in a desperate attempt to make herself known to her father.
Wittgenstein's Last Remark
Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote his last philosophical remark on the 27th of April 1951, two days before his death.
Ladybug
I was sitting on a bench in the park, reading Kafka, when a ladybug alighted on my book.
Summon
Thomas Bernhard likes to write out names in full and repeat them, as if he is summoning ghosts.
Terror
On a story by Vladimir Nabokov
Fear of birth
Because we don’t feel frightened by the endless time before we were born, Lucretius argues, we should not fear the time after we die.