Quotes not by but about Wittgenstein:

'W. is very excitable: he has more passion about philosophy than I have; his avalanches make mine seem mere snowballs. He has the pure intellectual passion in the highest degree; it makes me love him. His disposition is that of an artist, intuitive and moody. He says every morning he begins his work with hope, ( Read more... )

The wretchedness of speaking one's mind, or of speaking at all. Speaking precedes guilt. One wishes to say everything, but says only one thing to the exclusion of everything else that ought to be said, including the very antithesis of what one has said. Not to mention what other people might have wished to say in the moment when one was speaking ( Read more... )

'[…] I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the precondition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one’s own wretched heart is still aglow.'

- W. G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn, trans. Michael Hulse
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Looks like I messed up, Sea Oleena's self-titled album was released in 2010. Her 2011 release, Sleeplessness is equally good though, if not better. So that goes in place.

To cut straight to things:
1. Sea Oleena - Sleeplessness
2. Grouper - A I A
3. John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
4. King Creosote and Jon Hopkins - ( Read more... )

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