The semester is beginning to dissolve, moments opening up for readings that wander further afield… the pleasure of not squeezing freedoms into necessity however inextricably they are entwined… the reprieve arrives today in the form of:
“What is to be understood through seeing and hearing (even if not at first glance) cannot be too far removed from what is already known. As incomparably as something unutterable may be expressed at times in a gesture, a grouping, a picture of feeling, or an event, this always happens only in immediate proximity to the word; as something hovering, so to speak, around its core of meaning, which is the real element of humanity…the essence of the person does not reside in his experiences and feelings but in his silent, persistent quarrelling and coming to terms with them.”
-Robert Musil-
Additional “freedom fare:”
Polysemic Stupor 
“The famished road” is a great book, by the way…
yes, it seems i return to it every 3 years or so – i think this is round 4 🙂
It is somehow very African, I am very fascinated by this book.
indeed – always feels like a leap into another realm/umwelt – only “Stars of the New Curfew” by Okri has competed in this regard for me.
and “Astonishing the Gods” I suppose. Difficult to describe it’s otherworldly wisdom impression