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by Alrune
Tue Jun 02, 2026 4:25 pm
Forum: FREEDOM-BU
Topic: cool places on the 'net
Replies: 14
Views: 552

Re: cool places on the 'net


if anyone can link other annotations/author fansites that'd be great :chiyo:


Here are some of my bookmarks, it's a bit haphazard but maybe something will be of interest :ase:

https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/dante/divine-comedy/ -- Text of the Divine Comedy with side-by-side Italian and ...
by Alrune
Tue Jun 02, 2026 9:55 am
Forum: CHIKURIN
Topic: What are you currently reading?
Replies: 2
Views: 168

Re: What are you currently reading?


What language are you reading this Roubaud book in, if you don't mind me asking?


I am reading it in the original french. I am not french but I lived in France for a time and if I have a dictionary handy I can make steady progress.


I read La Disparition many years ago in the English ...
by Alrune
Tue Jun 02, 2026 7:21 am
Forum: CHIKURIN
Topic: What are you currently reading?
Replies: 2
Views: 168

What are you currently reading?

Since we already have threads for film and painting, I thought I should create one for prose and poetry, since it seems like we have some readers here :happy:

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I am currently reading La Boucle by the oulipian* Jacques Roubaud. This is one of those literary ...
by Alrune
Mon Jun 01, 2026 11:46 am
Forum: CHIKURIN
Topic: Favorite paintings
Replies: 4
Views: 210

Re: Favorite paintings

Here are some that I keep coming back to.

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Forward Retreat (1986) Mark Tansey

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Sammon puolustus (1896) Akseli Gallen-Kallela

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Arbeidere på hjemvei (1913) Edvard Munch

https ...
by Alrune
Thu May 28, 2026 7:15 am
Forum: AKADEMIA
Topic: /mg/ - Mathematics General
Replies: 12
Views: 471

Re: /mg/ - Mathematics General

Thanks for starting a math thread :D
I was just about to do the same after seeing how lively the discussion was in the Introduction Thread but you beat me to it.


>What do you like about Mathematics?


What initially attracted me to mathematics was the underlying unity of the subject. It just ...
by Alrune
Thu May 28, 2026 6:14 am
Forum: CHIKURIN
Topic: What film(s) have you recently watched?
Replies: 6
Views: 257

Re: What film(s) have you recently watched?


I recently watched The Merchant of Four Seasons from 1971. Fassbinder was a great director with many different styles and genres that he experimented with, but this film was very simple compared to what I've seen in the past from him. I haven't watched most of Fassbinder's early works with the ...
by Alrune
Wed May 27, 2026 7:00 am
Forum: CHIKURIN
Topic: What film(s) have you recently watched?
Replies: 6
Views: 257

Re: What film(s) have you recently watched?

A film thread, nice!

I recently rewatched Consolations (Love is an Art of Time) (1988) by R. Bruce Elder

Following the previous part of his film cycle, Lamentations, in Consolations, the Gods have flown; but like Hölderlin's poetry, the film acts as a provisional dwelling in which the trace of the ...
by Alrune
Wed May 27, 2026 6:58 am
Forum: FORUM STUFF
Topic: Introduce Yourself
Replies: 48
Views: 1895

Re: Introduce Yourself

Hi everyone!

My academic background is in math and neuroscience but my real interest right now is in philosophy and 'consciousness studies', for lack of a better term.
I got seriously into philosophy after reading Bergson, Deleuze, Husserl during my neuroscience studies and by contrast found that ...