November 2013 Archiv

Life after Bach and Bourbaki.

I like living in this time. Having missed many good musicians is compensated by logic and math being in a both stable and interesting shape.

Synaesex.

Results: Synaesthetes depicted significantly better overall sexual function on the KFSP with increased scores for the subscale “sexual appetence” but coevally significant lower subscale scores for “sexual satisfaction.” Sexual dysfunction was not detected in this sample. Synaesthetes depicted significantly higher levels of the subscales “oceanic boundlessness” and “visionary restructuralization” than controls using the OAVAV. Qualitative interviews revealed varying synaesthetic perceptions during the different states of arousal. Furthermore, synaesthetes reported an unsatisfactory feeling of isolation caused by the idiosyncratic perceptions.

Conclusions: Synaesthetes with sexual forms of synaesthesia seem to experience a deeper state of sexual trance without, however, enhanced satisfaction during sexual intercourse.

Nielsen et al.: Synaesthesia and Sexuality: The influence of synaesthetic perceptions on sexual experience

Maybe neven laws.

In a perfect world, lawyers would not exist.

Familia sine qua non.

Ich kann mir problemlos die Welt vor meiner Geburt vorstellen.

Die Zeit bevor meine Eltern sich kannten ist jedoch unerreichbar.

!Free marriage.

Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. In freedom it gives itself unreservedly, abundantly, completely.

Emma Goldman on Love & Marriage (e.g. in Polyamory: anarchist perspectives (Dysophia 1)), pp. 29 - 36)