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Black Milk of Daybreak

Horror and wonder in the face of exile and death

In the Face of Exile

"I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?"

- Epictetus, Discourses I.1

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§ Organum Vitalis Vermis {Organon}

Epictetus on Exile - Enchiridion

§ Look Daily on Exile and Death

Epictetus on Exile - Discourses

§ From Facing to Being in Exile

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

§ Slights of Anger or Desire

Site Texts

§ Epictetus's 'Enchiridion'
§ Epictetus's 'Letter to Menoeceus'
§ Seneca's Tragedies and Philosophy
§ Seneca's Dialogues [at Internet Archive]
§ Ovid's 'Letters from Exile'
§ Ovid's 'Letters from the Black Sea'
§ Ovid's Metamorphosis
§ Heidegger on Death in 'Being and Time'

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"

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 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

Films and Film Clips

§ Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
§ Koyaanisqatsi opening (1982)

Regarding Exile and Death

§ The History of Roman exile
§ Exile in Homeric poetry

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