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Black Milk of Daybreak

Horror and wonder in the face of exile and death

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Willi Herold

Posted by Organum Vitalis Vermis {Organon} at 12:00 AM
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The Black Death

"We see death coming into our midst like black smoke..."

- Ieuan Gethin, 1349

Regarding Exile and Death

§ The History of Roman exile
§ Exile in Homeric poetry

Epictetus on Exile and Death

§ Epictetus in the Discourses
§ Epictetus in the Enchiridion

Site Texts

§ John Donne, "Death, Be Not Proud"
§ Innocent III, "Food for the Worm"
§ Innocent III, "On the Nearness of Death"
§ Epictetus's 'Enchiridion'
§ Epictetus's 'Letter to Menoeceus'
§ Seneca's Tragedies and Philosophy
§ Seneca's Dialogues
§ Ovid's 'Letters from Exile'
§ Ovid's 'Letters from the Black Sea'
§ Ovid's Metamorphosis
§ Marcus Aurelius on Anger and Desire
§ Marcus Aurelius on Slander and Gossip
§ The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
§ Heidegger on Death in 'Being and Time'

Sex and Death

§ Debbie Harry's Now I Know You Know
§ Vero Moda: Blissful Solitude

The Young and the Restless

§ The Child is the Father of the Man
§ Ненависть: Grief at Kerch

Site Music

§ Kammarheit's "Sphaerula"
§ Kammarheit's "Aeon"
§ Kammarheit's "The Nest"
§ Aindulmedir's "Sleep-Form"
§ Kammarheit's "In the Dreamer's Fields"
§ Bostrom's "Earthwards"

Films and Film Clips

§ Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
§ Koyaanisqatsi opening (1982)
§ The Seventh Seal (1957)

Site Labels

  • Burdens and Trials of Exile
  • Elders That Dream of Ruin
  • Flowers Bloom from Blood
  • Harvesting Seeds from Crops
  • Lessons from Dante
  • Lessons from Epictetus
  • Lessons from Jung
  • Lessons from Tacitus
  • Marxists At Their Best
  • Reveries and Imageries
  • The Coming and Passing of Animals
  • The Coming and Passing of Man
  • The Surface and the Shadow
  • The Way of All Flesh
  • They Drink and They Drink
  • Twilight of the Middle Ages
  • Works and Ways of Idi Amin
  • Works and Ways of Napoleon
  • Works and Ways of Vigeland
  • Works and Ways of Vlad Țepeș

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