Ap/bio Labpro Lab 4: Plant

Change

I started, and yes with Essays of Montaigne. This effort to engage in a long reading, during which a transformation occurs: a reading that will mark an epoch, which makes time. I've prepared with Montaigne Stefan Zweig, which I bought on 31 December and has given an air daily on 1 January. A January 1 better off light. Among its pages had Munoz Molina article that appeared that time, which speaks well of the book by Sarah Bakewell How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne . Style seems that de Botton's How to change your life with Proust. It contains twenty propositions, which quoted Muñoz Molina fourteen:

not worry too much about death.
Pay attention. Somételo
any review. Preserves
own room.
Be sociable and lives with others. Wake up from slumber
custom.
lives with temperance.
Preserve your humanity.
Do something that nobody has done before.
Peek into the world.
Do your job well, but not too well.
not try to control everything. Be
common and imperfect.
Let life be your own response. Zweig

also derives a list in Montaigne (p. 79):

Freedom of vanity and pride, which is perhaps most difficult,
freedom from fear and hope,
of convictions and matches
the ambitions and all forms of greed,
live free, as one's own reflection in the mirror,
of money and all kinds of desire and lust,
of family and the environment,
of fanaticism, of all forms of stereotyped view of faith in absolute values.

The book is a gem. It was written in Brazil and left unchecked, because he committed suicide before. Montaigne was therefore his last partner. Zweig recommended reading for someone like me: "Can not be too young nor inexperienced and disappointments, to appreciate it properly." Montaigne's portrait Zweig does build bridges with my admired authors. With Petrarch, communication between reading and life. In Jünger, the effort to preserve their own way of being. With Duchamp, the random entrusted, especially on the trip. With Bernhard, freedom: the take (and get rid of) in writing. With Spinoza, clean look. With Nietzsche, the affirmation of the world and the movement of the world. With Cioran, denial. And Melville, this tower that is also a whale.

In his foreword to trials, the translator Bayod tension points to Montaigne, which gives underground writing tragedy:

How to reconcile these two facets: Montaigne's perpetuum mobile and the Montaigne regular nature and standards, the skeptic Montaigne and appealing to the rule of reason, the score Montaigne undecided and the exhaustive argument? Not appear it is a philosophical development. Could it be internal stress is a key to his thinking? I add

Montaigne and philosophy of Comte-Sponville, one of those scams publishing a conference consisting of fat to look like a book, but that's okay. Here is a quote from Montaigne quotes about change: "I just want discover myself, perchance to be another tomorrow, if I change a new traineeship." The apprentice to the sun: the sun of Montaigne.