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<Sentiment vs. Kitsch / Body & Soul:>

a sentimental summary of an unsentimental story that was disappearing in the distance
"The reason I like you," she would say to him (Tomas), "is you're the complete opposite of kitsch."
The women were pleased at having thrown off the ballast of the soul - that laughable conceit, that illusion of uniqueness - to becomes one like the next.
"On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth."
We are happily ignorant of the invisible Venice of shit underlying our bathrooms, bedrooms, dance halls, and parliaments.
The daily defecation is daily proof of the unacceptability of Creation.
It follows, then, that the aesthetic ideal of the categorical agreement with being is a world in which shit is denied and everyone acts as though it did not exist. This aesthetic ideal is called kitsch. {I'll hold 王小波 as its opposite.}
The May Day ceremony drew its inspiration from the deep well of the categorical agreement with being.
The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass! <> It is the second tear that makes kitsch kitsch.
Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.

<Out of Eden:>

"Man the cow parasite" is probably how non-man defines man in his zoology books.
Mankind's true moral test.. consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
Now we are longtime outcasts, flying through the emptiness of time in a straight line.
No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so.

<Misc:>

While people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is still in its opening bars, they can go about writing it together and exchange motifs.
We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak.
The goals we pursue are always veiled.
A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.
Insofar as it is possible to divide people into categories, the surest criterion is the deep-seated desires that orient them to one or another lifelong activity.
.. the category of people who longs for the look of an infinite number of anonymous eyes; who have a vital need to be looked at by many known eyes; who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love; who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present;

"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" [.]