Kelly W

“Eros, in contrast, makes possible experience of the Other’s otherness, which leads the One out of a narcissistic inferno… This feeling is not the achievement of the One, but the gift of the Other.”

Time is change

Time as meaningful only if there is difference, not more of the same

Historical time is linear time

Time has lost narrative / teleological tension and has devolved/atomised into point time.

Informational time as comprised of points instead, scattered, with empty spaces between points, whereas in a line, you don’t lose that narrative

Diotima’s Ladder of Love

“The Six Stages of the Ladder of Love

1. Love for a particular body
Love is a desire for physical features, usually those missing from one’s own body. Each person is drawn to a particular type of body, based on our individual triggers.

2. Love for all bodies
A person recognizes that all bodies possess beauty of different kinds

“Please bring strange things.

Please come bringing new things.

Let very old things come into your hands.

Let what you do not know come into your eyes.

Let desert sand harden your feet.

Let the arch of your feet be the mountains.

Let the paths of your fingertips be your maps

And the ways you go be the lines of your palms.

Let there be deep snow in your

““Just being active impoverishes your experience. It continues ever the same. Whoever is not capable of stopping and pausing has no access to what is altogether different. Experience transforms. It interrupts the repetition of the ever same. You do not become more susceptible to the making of experiences by becoming more active. Rather, what is

“Softest of mornings, hello.
And what will you do today, I wonder,
to my heart?
And how much honey can the heart stand, I wonder,
before it must break?

This is trivial, or nothing: a snail
climbing a trellis of leaves
and the blue trumpets of flowers.

No doubt clocks are ticking loudly
all over the world.
I don’t hear them. The snail’s pale horns
extend and

“I'm better at some things than Jessica, and she's better at some things than me. One of the things she's best at is judging people. She's one of those rare individuals with x-ray vision for character. She can see through any kind of faker almost immediately. Her nickname within YC was the Social Radar, and this special power of hers was critical