Andy Wimbush
@andywimbush.bsky.social
Author of Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism
Moby-Dick enthusiast
Novel in the works
Literature, philosophy, Buddhadharma 🌱
Teaches at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge
Moby-Dick enthusiast
Novel in the works
Literature, philosophy, Buddhadharma 🌱
Teaches at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge
January 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
"The doctrine of the will has been invented essentially to justify punishment through the assigning of guilt. [...] Men were considered 'free' only so that they might be considered guilty."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
November 19, 2024 at 9:12 AM
"The doctrine of the will has been invented essentially to justify punishment through the assigning of guilt. [...] Men were considered 'free' only so that they might be considered guilty."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
I took this photo in Somiedo Natural Park, in Spain, in 2017.
It seems an appropriate welcome gift to all X-iles to Bluesky 🦋
I'm a Beckett scholar by training and usually post about literature, contemplative philosophy (mostly Buddhist and Daoist), and meditation.
It seems an appropriate welcome gift to all X-iles to Bluesky 🦋
I'm a Beckett scholar by training and usually post about literature, contemplative philosophy (mostly Buddhist and Daoist), and meditation.
November 18, 2024 at 3:24 PM
I took this photo in Somiedo Natural Park, in Spain, in 2017.
It seems an appropriate welcome gift to all X-iles to Bluesky 🦋
I'm a Beckett scholar by training and usually post about literature, contemplative philosophy (mostly Buddhist and Daoist), and meditation.
It seems an appropriate welcome gift to all X-iles to Bluesky 🦋
I'm a Beckett scholar by training and usually post about literature, contemplative philosophy (mostly Buddhist and Daoist), and meditation.
Zhuangzi's case for leaving Twitter/X:
"When the springs dry up, the fish have to cluster together on the shore, gasping on each other to keep damp and spitting on each other to stay wet. But that is no match for forgetting all about one another in the rivers and the lakes...
"When the springs dry up, the fish have to cluster together on the shore, gasping on each other to keep damp and spitting on each other to stay wet. But that is no match for forgetting all about one another in the rivers and the lakes...
November 14, 2024 at 7:23 AM
Zhuangzi's case for leaving Twitter/X:
"When the springs dry up, the fish have to cluster together on the shore, gasping on each other to keep damp and spitting on each other to stay wet. But that is no match for forgetting all about one another in the rivers and the lakes...
"When the springs dry up, the fish have to cluster together on the shore, gasping on each other to keep damp and spitting on each other to stay wet. But that is no match for forgetting all about one another in the rivers and the lakes...
Once again - yet again - thinking about this Langston Hughes poem
November 6, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Once again - yet again - thinking about this Langston Hughes poem
'Every religion begins with someone saying, "Or *this* instead." What we really want is the "or... instead." What we end up with, though, is usually just the "instead" without the "or" - or worse, just the "this".'
- Brook Ziporyn, Experiments in Mystical Atheism
- Brook Ziporyn, Experiments in Mystical Atheism
November 4, 2024 at 7:09 PM
'Every religion begins with someone saying, "Or *this* instead." What we really want is the "or... instead." What we end up with, though, is usually just the "instead" without the "or" - or worse, just the "this".'
- Brook Ziporyn, Experiments in Mystical Atheism
- Brook Ziporyn, Experiments in Mystical Atheism