Tim HolloFeb 25

Here are some wandering wonderings on the echoing implications of our relationship with death

There’s a trigger warning on this one
#mushrooms #fungi #death #epstein #transformation #Arendt

https://in-between-days.ghost.io/on-mushrooms-death-transformation-and-epstein/?ref=in-between-days-newsletter

On mushrooms, death, transformation... and Epstein

Wonderings on the echoing implications of our relationship with death When I die, compost me. Put me under a tree - a snow gum, if possible - and let it feed. Let the mushrooms and their mycelia unmake me into morsels, into molecules becoming free to become something otherwise. Consider

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@timhollo

And your post made me revisit Goethe's poem Selige Sehnsucht, about death and re-birth.

A while ago I tried my clumsy hand at a very free translation of the final verse, here:

https://mastodonapp.uk/@the_roamer/112665864578987364

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And if this One Thing you don't possess, // This: Vanish and Become! // Then you are just a muted guest, // On our lightless earth. Und solang du das nicht hast, // Dieses: Stirb und werde! // Bist Du nur ein trüber Gast // Auf der dunklen Erde. JW Goethe, Selige Sehnsucht, from West-östlicher Divan, 1814. #Goethe #StirbUndWerde #Phoenix #metamorphosis #Tao #poetry #humbleeffortsattranslation [My second attempt at translating this passage.]

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@the_roamer I’ve never made the time to properly read Goethe. Must do so. And yes, Arendt is finally starting ti be recognised, I feel, but historically so under appreciated.
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@the_roamer and the Tao De Ching, too! I have a magnificent version translated / interpreted by Le Guin which I dip into frequently