"Katherine Anne Porter Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. Her 1962 novel ""Ship of Fools"" was the best-selling novel in America that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim. She is known for her penetrating insight; her work deals with dark themes such as betrayal, death and the origin of human evil. Katherine Anne Porter was born in Indian Creek, Texas as Callie Russel Porter to Harrison Boone Porter and Mary Alice (Jones) Porter. Her family tree can be traced back"
"inhabitants who are deranged, frivolous, or oblivious, and seemingly ignorant of their course. The concept makes up the framework of the 15th century book which served as the inspiration for Hieronymous Bosch's famous painting, ""Ship of Fools"": a ship—an entire fleet at first—sets off from Basel, bound for the Paradise of Fools. A distinction between nautical fiction and other fiction merely using the sea as a setting or backdrop is an investment in nautical detail. Luis Iglesias describes James Fenimore Cooper's use in """" of nautical language and ""faithful [...] descriptions of nautical maneuvers and the vernacular expression of seafaring"
"quality include Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, and Stephen King. The word has gained its significance from its use in French as ""la danse macabre"" for the allegorical representation of the ever-present and universal power of death, known in English as the Dance of Death and in German as ""Totentanz"". The typical form which the allegory takes is that of a series of images in which Death appears, either as a dancing skeleton or as a shrunken shrouded corpse, to people representing every age and condition of life, and leads them all in a dance to the grave. Of"
"are not consecutive) are taken from a poem called ""Dedication"" (Widmung), about the scholar and artist trying to understand himself and the world. According to Norman Del Mar, ""These lines of searching introspection Strauss wrote out in full amongst the pages of sketches for ""Metamorphosen"", the word metamorphosen being itself a term Goethe used in old age to apply to his own mental development over a great period of time in pursuit of ever more exalted thinking"". The ending quote from the funeral march of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony with the words ""In Memoriam!"" has also raised speculation. The ""Eroica"" theme"
"Ship of fools The ship of fools is an allegory, originating from Book VI of Plato's ""Republic"", about a ship with a dysfunctional crew: The concept makes up the framework of the 15th-century book ""Ship of Fools"" (1494) by Sebastian Brant, which served as the inspiration for Hieronymus Bosch's painting, ""Ship of Fools"": a ship—an entire fleet at first—sets off from Basel, bound for the Paradise of Fools. In literary and artistic compositions of the 15th and 16th centuries, the cultural motif of the ship of fools also served to parody the ""ark of salvation"", as the Catholic Church was"
"Collective depression Collective depression is one of many collective mental states, such as collective elation, collective paranoia, collective trauma, or collective grief, which may affect a group, community or whole nation. It is characterised by a prevailing and seemingly permanent sense of inadequacy, despondency, lack of vitality, sadness and hopelessness, shared by a high proportion of the members of a collectivity. As shown by Gustave Le Bon in 1895, it can be passed by contagion, in a way similar to a physical condition. Collective depression is often found in detained communities, such as ghettos, concentration camps or other places where"
"or debauchery in the house on the left, or as the prodigal son returning home from the world. Tim Storrier's self-portrait ""The Histrionic Wayfarer (after Bosch)"" won the 2012 Archibald Prize. The Wayfarer The Wayfarer (or The Pedlar) is a painting by Hieronymus Bosch. It is currently in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. This painting is round and in diameter. It is one of the fragments of a partially lost triptych or diptych, which also included the ""Allegory of Gluttony and Lust"", the ""Ship of Fools"" and ""Death and the Miser"". The figure is similar to the man depicted"
"Weltschmerz Weltschmerz (from the German, literally ""world-pain"", also ""world weariness"", ) is a term coined by the German author Jean Paul and denotes the kind of feeling experienced by someone who believes that physical reality can never satisfy the demands of the mind. This kind of world view was widespread among several romantic and decadent authors such as Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, William Blake, the Marquis de Sade, Charles Baudelaire, Giacomo Leopardi, Paul Verlaine, François-René de Chateaubriand, Alfred de Musset, Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolaus Lenau, Hermann Hesse, and Heinrich Heine. Frederick C. Beiser defines ""Weltschmerz"" more broadly as ""a mood of"
"Egregore Egregore (also egregor) is an occult concept representing a ""thoughtform"" or ""collective group mind"", an autonomous psychic entity made up of, and influencing, the thoughts of a group of people. The symbiotic relationship between an egregore and its group has been compared to the more recent, non-occult concepts of the corporation (as a legal entity) and the meme. The first author to adapt ""egregore"" in a modern language seems to be the French poet Victor Hugo, in ""La Légende des siècles"" (""The Legend of the Ages""), First Series, 1859, where he uses the word ""égrégore"" first as an adjective,"
"servitor. When such a being becomes large enough that it exists independently of any one individual, as a form of ""group mind"", then it is referred to as an egregore. Later chaos magicians have expanded on the basic sigilization technique. Grant Morrison coined the term ""hypersigil"" to refer to an extended work of art with magical meaning and willpower, created using adapted processes of sigilization. His comic book series ""The Invisibles"" was intended as such a hypersigil. Morrison has also argued that modern corporate logos like ""the McDonald's Golden Arches, the Nike swoosh and the Virgin autograph"" are a form"
"manifestation of thrown-ness. The idea of the past as a matrix not chosen, but at the same time not utterly binding or deterministic, results in the notion of ""Geworfenheit""—a kind of alienation that human beings struggle against, and that leaves a paradoxical opening for freedom: For William J. Richardson, ""Geworfenheit"" ""must be understood in a purely ontological sense as wishing to signify the matter-of-fact character of human finitude"". That's why ""thrownness"" is the best English word for ""Geworfenheit"". Richardson: ""[Other] attractive translations such as 'abandon,' 'dereliction,' 'dejection,' etc. [...] are [dangerous because they are] too rich with ontic, anthropological connotations."
"of all I have said tonight — except that I have said it by means of reasoning and simulated reasoning. I will say it first in Spanish and then in German: The line he quoted, ""Die Rose ist ohne warum; sie blühet, weil sie blühet..."" from Silesius's ""The Cherubinic Pilgrim"" (1657), can be translated as: ""The Rose is without a 'wherefor'—she blooms because she blooms."" The influence of mysticism is seen in the work of Borges, especially in his poetry, which frequently references Silesius and his work. This same line was often referenced in the work of Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)"
"able to identify with the entire cosmos in a process of Wisdom, Love, Power, Joy and Beauty. In the succession of humanity’s great thinkers like Plato, Orpheus, Pythagoras, Hermes and Lamblichus, François Brousse affirms the existence of metempsychosis, which is necessary in this long night pilgrimage to the blinding heights of imperishable eternity and the possibility of humans falling back into the animalistic chasm and potentially even deeper in expiation. Such is the unfortunate fate of dictators and tyrants, described captivatingly by Victor Hugo in his poem ""Ce que dit la bouche d’ombre"" (What the Shadow's Mouth Says) in ""Les"
"Zeitgeist The Zeitgeist (, German pronunciation ) is a concept from 18th- to 19th-century German philosophy, translated as ""spirit of the age"" or ""spirit of the times"". It refers to an invisible agent or force dominating the characteristics of a given epoch in world history. The term is now mostly associated with Hegel, contrasting with Hegel's use of ""Volksgeist"" ""national spirit"" and ""Weltgeist"" ""world-spirit"", but its coinage and popularization precedes Hegel, and is mostly due to Herder and Goethe. Other philosophers who were associated with such ideas include Spencer and Voltaire. Contemporary use of the term may, more pragmatically, refer"
"Thrownness Thrownness () is a concept introduced by German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) to describe humans' individual existences as ""being thrown"" (""geworfen"") into the world. ""Geworfen"" denotes the arbitrary or inscrutable nature of ""Dasein"" that connects the past with the present. The past, through Being-toward-death, becomes a part of ""Dasein"". Awareness and acknowledgment of the arbitrariness of ""Dasein"" is characterized as a state of ""thrown-ness"" in the present with all its attendant frustrations, sufferings, and demands that one does not choose, such as social conventions or ties of kinship and duty. The very fact of one's own existence is a"
"allowing objects and context to dictate meaning. Characters are shown in ordinary, unremarkable occupations, and often a lack of resources and money that creates an internal desperation. After Buford's categorisation, the definition has expanded to include, according to Michael Hemmingson, as the movement's ""godfather"" Charles Bukowski (1920–1994), as well as those who appeared in ""Granta"" 8, including Raymond Carver (1938–1988), Tobias Wolff (b. 1945), Richard Ford (b. 1944), Larry Brown (1951–2004), Frederick Barthelme (b. 1943), Cormac McCarthy (b. 1933), Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (b. 1950), (b. 1951), Carson McCullers (1917–1967), and Jayne Anne Phillips (b. 1952). These authors have rarely accepted"
"an infinite and immutable object – that is, God himself – can fill this infinite abyss."" Without stimulus or focus, the individual is confronted with nothingness, the meaninglessness of existence, and experiences existential anxiety. Heidegger states this idea as follows: ""Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole."" Schopenhauer used the existence of boredom in an attempt to prove the vanity of human existence, stating, ""...for if life, in the desire"
"misfortunes.<br> 57. Such is the fate that blinds humankind, and takes away his senses.<br> 58. Like huge cylinders they roll back and forth, and always oppressed with innumerable ills.<br> 59. For fatal strife, natural, pursues them everywhere, tossing them up and down; nor do they perceive it.<br> 60. Instead of provoking and stirring it up, they ought to avoid it by yielding.<br> 61. Oh! Jupiter, our Father! If you would deliver men from all the evils that oppress them,<br> 62. Show them of what daemon they make use.<br> 63. But take courage; the race of humans is divine.<br> 64. Sacred"
"an independent being, then such a complex is referred to as a servitor. When such a being becomes large enough that it exists independently of any one individual, as a form of ""group mind"", then it is referred to as an egregore. Later chaos magicians have expanded on the basic sigilisation technique. Grant Morrison coined the term ""hypersigil"" to refer to an extended work of art with magical meaning and willpower, created using adapted processes of sigilization. His comic book series ""The Invisibles"" was intended as such a hypersigil. Morrison has also argued that modern corporate logos like ""the McDonald's"
"Stein's car. When a young mechanic failed to repair the car quickly enough, the garage owner shouted at the boy, ""You are all a """"génération perdue."""" Stein, in telling Hemingway the story, added, ""That is what you are. That's what you all are ... all of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation."" Lost in this respect means disoriented, wandering, directionless—a recognition that there was great confusion and aimlessness among the war's survivors in the early post-war years."" The 1926 publication of Hemingway's ""The Sun Also Rises"" popularized the term as Hemingway used it"
"Auschwitz is barbaric,"" and the Holocaust has indeed had a profound impact on art and literature, for both Jews and non-Jews. Some of the more famous works are by Holocaust survivors or victims, such as Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi, Viktor Frankl and Anne Frank, but there is a substantial body of literature and art in many languages. Indeed, Paul Celan wrote his poem ""Todesfuge"" as a direct response to Adorno's dictum. The Holocaust has also been the subject of many films, including Oscar winners ""Schindler's List"", ""The Pianist"" and ""Life Is Beautiful"". With the aging population of Holocaust survivors, there"
"(1904–1990); Robert De Niro, Sr. (1920–1993); Fairfield Porter, (1907–1975); Gregorio Prestopino (1907–1984); Lester Johnson (1919–2010); George McNeil (1909–1995); Henry Gorski (1918–2010); Robert Goodnough (1917–); and Earle M. Pilgrim (1923–1976). The figure also served as a stylistic element reminiscent of the German Expressionists, but with the heroic scale of the Abstract Expressionists for many of those with allegorical or mythical interests. Artists in this category included: Jan Müller, (1922–1958); Robert Beauchamp, (1923–1995); Nicholas Marsicano, (1914–1991); Bob Thompson, (1937–1966); Ezio Martinelli, (1913–1980) Irving Kriesberg, (1919–2009). ""During the war years and into the 1950s,"" Judith E. Stein writes, ""the general public was to"
"a symptom of herd behavior or mob mentality. Norman Lillegard argues that the present age is ""incapable of anything but 'crowd actions' which are not true actions at all."" Present age The term ""present age"" is a concept in the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard. A formulation of the modern age can be found in Kierkegaard's work """": Kierkegaard argues the present age drains the meaning out of ethical concepts through passionless indolence. The concepts are still used, but are drained of all meaning by virtue of their detachment from a life view which is passion-generated and produces consistent action. Kierkegaard"
"thwarted but inexorable endurance."" Poet and art critic Carter Ratcliff said, ""The Chicagoans of the 1950s never coalesced into a group. For all its incompatibility, their art shared one purpose: to announce the artist's alienation in terms clear enough to be widely understood."" Leon Golub (1922–2004) spearheaded the Monster Roster by writing an impassioned defense of figurative Expressionism in an article for the ""College Art Journal"" in 1953 that also criticized abstraction as a denial of Man's humanity, calling it a dehumanized and dehumanizing form. Other key figures in the Midwest's most important contribution to American art included George Cohen"
"attributed to several famous figures at different times (e.g. misquotations of Charles Darwin), but the quotation has been around since at least the 1890s. Its absolute origin is unknown. Wendy Doniger relates it to a French and English proverb: ""In the dark, all cats are grey."" Hegel criticised naive ideas of the Absolute, which he ridiculed as ""like a night, as people say, in which all cows are black."" Dashiell Hammett in ""The Dain Curse"" (1929) referred to a ""blind man in a dark room hunting for a black hat that wasn't there"". Ernest Gellner referred to an East European"
"in 1500 CE. Perhaps the most famous artistic depiction of the phrase is Pieter Bruegel's ""The Blind Leading the Blind"". Little is known about Bruegel's life, although he frequently depicted scenes of rustic life. The distemper on canvas painting was completed in 1568, and is currently in the collection of the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, Italy. ""The Blind Leading the Blind"" is a poem by Pulitzer prize winning poet Lisel Mueller ""Blind Leading the Blind"" is a song by Lynsey de Paul. It was the 'B' side of her 1973 single, All Night. ""Blind leading the blind"" was a"
"pretend to be a Wellingtonian. He has his nose pressed against the glass."" The Germans have a word for Peter Becker's underlying sense that all is not well: ""Torschlusspanik"" – literally, ""gate-closing panic"" – or in Peter's case, the quiet angst of aging as life's options narrow. Not that long ago, he seemed to have all the time in the world; now his world is shrinking, and grace has not arrived. ""Begotten, Not Made"", Forrester's third novel, recounts the travels of a wandering musician and his deaf sidekick, shuffling along on a doomed walking marathon from New York to San"
"villagers as acting in an odd manner, with a habit of mumbling to himself. The story opens with this stanza, which is attributed to him: <poem>They say foul things of Old Times still lurk In dark forgotten corners of the world. And Gates still gape to loose, on certain nights. Shapes pent in Hell.</poem> An eccentric German poet and philosopher noted for his extensive travels and membership in myriad secret societies. He is mainly remembered as the author of the ""Unaussprechlichen Kulten"" (""Nameless Cults"" or ""The Black Book""), which was published shortly before his death. Six months after his return"
"the border of pessimism and optimism, but sublimated the self-consciousness that never gives up the strain of facing reality. “Standing in the midst of the darkness of night, I can’t see even an inch ahead, where I am going, where I am standing, uselessly looking around, drifting over the river of life like a floating weed, I may perish at this unknown river bank, stand up, stand up, give it a try, stand up, stand up, like the sprouts in Spring” (Stand up). The German Hip Hop group ""Die Orsons"" made a song called ""Kim Kwang-seok"". The song deals with"
"Dystopia A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- ""bad"" and τόπος ""place""; alternatively, cacotopia, kakotopia, or simply anti-utopia) is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening. It is translated as ""not-good place"" and is an antonym of utopia, a term that was coined by Sir Thomas More and figures as the title of his best known work, ""Utopia"", published 1516, a blueprint for an ideal society with minimal crime, violence and poverty. Dystopian societies appear in many artistic works, particularly in stories set in the future. Some of the most famous examples are George Orwell's ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" and Aldous"
"Death and the Miser Death and the Miser is a Hieronymus Bosch painting. It is currently in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The painting is the inside of the right panel of a divided triptych. The other existing portions of the triptych are ""The Ship of Fools"" and ""Allegory of Gluttony and Lust"", while ""The Wayfarer"" was painted on the external right panel. ""Death and the Miser"" belongs to the tradition of the memento mori, works that remind the viewer of the inevitability of death. The painting shows the influence of popular 15th-century handbooks on the art"
"D. Salinger, Bobby Fischer, Emily Dickinson, Gustave Flaubert, Paul Cézanne, Nikola Tesla, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, H. P. Lovecraft, Marie Curie, Marcel Proust, Howard Hughes, Greta Garbo, Mina Mazzini, Jackson Pollock, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Glenn Gould, Jean-Luc Godard, Thomas Pynchon, John Swartzwelder, Paul Allen, Layne Staley, Richard Proenneke, Syd Barrett and Michael Jackson. There are many potential reasons for becoming a recluse: a personal philosophy may reject consumer society; a mystical religious outlook may involve becoming a hermit or an anchorite; a survivalist may be practicing self-sufficiency; a criminal might hide away from people to avoid detection by police; or a misanthrope"
"to refer just to a ""loss of goal"": discourse that sets off on a particular idea, wanders off and never returns to it. A related term is tangentiality—it refers to off-the-point, oblique or irrelevant answers given to questions. In some studies on creativity, ""knight's move thinking"", while it describes a similarly loose association of ideas, is not considered a mental disorder or the hallmark of one; it is sometimes used as a synonym for lateral thinking. ""Entgleisen"" (derailment in German) was first used with this meaning by Carl Schneider in 1930. The term ""asyndesis"" was introduced by N. Cameron in"