A Sunday's themes: inertia and Nietzsche
Sep. 5th, 2004 08:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeToday I actually watched Runaway Bride, with a bunch of commercials even, which sort of indicates that this cold has me pretty low on energy and initiative. During D's attempt to nap, I attempted to read outside, but a very yappy little dog was incensed that other neighbors were working in their yard, which made it quite a challenge. I came in for a while then went back out when the dog had gotten over it.
I think the Zarathustra book is going to be good, though the author did start his journey on the pop culture route, first with Kubrick's decision to use that music and then to Nietzsche for picking that title for his most revolutionary book (Also Sprach Zarathustra being the name of the book and the piece of Wagner's music used in 2001: A Space Odyssey). So chapter two was about Nietzsche, with a detour midstream to learn how on earth a German student had ever learned about Zoroaster (it was because of a persistent and rather obnoxious French scholar, decades before, who took a wild trip to India to track down and translate the sacred Zoroastrian texts). Next up I think he writes about the Cathars and the Albigensian heresy, working his way backwards through history to see how fundamental the Zoroastrian duality thing is in our culture.
Later, when D. finally fell asleep, I actually played Diablo II for about 45 minutes, which was very messy because it took at least eight or nine attempts to retrieve my character's stuff after I goofed up in a spiders' den place.
I think the Zarathustra book is going to be good, though the author did start his journey on the pop culture route, first with Kubrick's decision to use that music and then to Nietzsche for picking that title for his most revolutionary book (Also Sprach Zarathustra being the name of the book and the piece of Wagner's music used in 2001: A Space Odyssey). So chapter two was about Nietzsche, with a detour midstream to learn how on earth a German student had ever learned about Zoroaster (it was because of a persistent and rather obnoxious French scholar, decades before, who took a wild trip to India to track down and translate the sacred Zoroastrian texts). Next up I think he writes about the Cathars and the Albigensian heresy, working his way backwards through history to see how fundamental the Zoroastrian duality thing is in our culture.
Later, when D. finally fell asleep, I actually played Diablo II for about 45 minutes, which was very messy because it took at least eight or nine attempts to retrieve my character's stuff after I goofed up in a spiders' den place.