The discovery of the statue of Antinous in Delphi, Greece in 1894
ALT"Poems are not written...", Andrey Voznesensky (translated by metamorphesque)
"Every attempt at psychological explanation is, at bottom, the creation of a new myth. We merely translate one symbol into another symbol which is better suited to the existing constellation of our individual fate and that of humanity as a whole. Our science, too, is another of these figurative languages. Thus we simply create a new symbol for that same enigma which confronted all ages before us." In effect, the psychologist, like the atomic physicist...does not assert absolutely, but instead constructs "a model which opens up a promising and useful field of inquiry. A model does not assert that something is so, it simply illustrates a particular mode of observation". . . And while it argues nothing about metaphysical reality, yet a metaphor, which is nothing other than a model of the psychologist's own psychic working, does portray how the process of psyche feels. It projects a subjective point of view, ordering and organizing experience around that wholly personal center.
James Olney, Metaphors of Self: the meaning of autobiography
ALT― Albert Camus, Notebooks: 1935-1951
Clear-ish collection of things I’ve found that people have left behind or lost
