Author Archives: Sam Barnes

The Endless Numbered Days

“The pure eye that sees the meaning of the teachings without attachment arose in the monk Kondañña; He realized that everything that is of the nature to arise is of the nature to cease.” —– Samyutta Nikaya V, 420º Preface … Continue reading

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Trials and Tribulations

The story of the end of the world is written into its beginning – that Word of God extinguished at last, that inevitable return to the emptiness from which it was born.  But as we sit in the middest of … Continue reading

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Nietzsche, Genealogy, and History

Foucault’s essay on truth and the rest. http://www.scribd.com/full/4475734?access_key=key-24hst8cxmor75glhl95y

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Born Witness

“The more provocative question would be, according to quantum indeterminacy, does New York City actually exist?  At least, if you take the hypothesis of theoretical physics to its logical conclusion… NYC [is] as an illusion purveyed by a malevolent scientist.” … Continue reading

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In the Dark, With the Light

“When he woke in the dark and the cold of the night he’d reach out and touch the child sleeping behind him.”  The hypnotic rhythm of The Road begins from its very first line – a line that I didn’t … Continue reading

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