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taiwanese grass jelly herb (3.1/5) (cooling, bitter mint sensation that feels light but has an intense climate. apparently, when steeped with agar agar or gelatin, it can thicken into a jelly. however, i would prefer to drink the herb as is.) "And surely you have seen, in the darkness of the most innermost rooms of these huge buildings, to which sunlight never penetrates, how the gold lead of a sliding door or screen will pick up a distant glimmer from the garden, then suddenly send forth an ethereal glow, a faint golden light cast into the enveloping darkness. How in such a dark place, gold draws so much light to itself is a mystery to me. Modern man, in his well-lit house, knows nothing of the beauty of gold, but those who lived in the dark houses of the past were not merely captivated by its beauty, they also knew its practical value, for gold in these dim rooms, must have served the function of a reflector. Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty." Tanizaki'...

"Antigone" favorite quotes

 "Earth, holy and inexhaustible, is graven

With shining furrows where his plows have gone

Year after year, the timeless labor of stallions. "



"The lithe fish lighting their reaches of dim water,

All are taken, tamed in the net of his mind;

The lion on the hill, the wild horse windy-maned,

Resign to him;"



"Never may the anarchic man find rest at my hearth,

Never be it said that my thoughts are his thoughts."




"Her crying bitterly a broken note or two

For the young ones stolen. Just so, when this girl

Found the bare corpse, and all her love’s work wasted,

She wept, and cried on heaven to damn the hands 340

That had done this thing"




"No more, Ismene.

                        You are alive, but I belong to Death. "




"Drank the sunlight! but now a passionate word 475

And a handful of dust have closed up all its beauty"

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  1. hrm yes mesa agrees on the profundity of these quotes yes perhaps

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