> classical texts are enmeshed in a dense web of relationships that can surprise and invigorate us, even after thousands of years
"[E]nmeshed in a web of relationships", i.e., intertextual[1].
Further reading: Hermann Broch's novel, The Death of Virgil, and Simone Weil's lesser known compilation of writings, Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks.
The web of relationships extends to music as well. After reading that Broch novel, one might enjoy the cycle of works by Jean Barraqué that took their inspiration from The Death of Virgil.
I'm familiar with the historical context of apophatic theology, particularly Spinoza, but haven't seen your description before. Is this from a particular source, or how are you defining 'clearing' and 'unreal'?
It might be that the apophatic is best understood with it's counterpart in mind: the cataphatic. Whereas the apophatic is annihilating (sculpting into) whatever is not God (e.g., the finite), the cataphatic is constructing (amassing into) the good, the true, and the beautiful.
I'm someone who very much loves the concept of Nix and what it is trying to achieve. However, a sibling poster put it well:
> On the advice of numerous HN threads, I switched from Homebrew to Nix, and gave it a 6 month shot. Nix was great at first: simple, fast, elegant. However, I quickly realized that the simplicity was a facade that even a casual user would eventually be forced to remove. And what you find behind the facade gets really, complex really quickly.
Used XMR for the first time this past week (Anna's Archive and Mullvad VPN subscriptions) - pretty seamless experience due in part to Monero GUI Wallet and LocalMonero.
Cioran, in effect: The blank time of meditation is, in truth, the only "full" time. We should never blush to accumulate vacant moments—vacant in appearance, filled in fact. To meditate is a supreme leisure, whose secret has been lost.
...what i enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions i impose upon the fine surface: i read on, i skip, i look up, i dip in again (barthes, the pleasures of the text)
"[E]nmeshed in a web of relationships", i.e., intertextual[1].
Further reading: Hermann Broch's novel, The Death of Virgil, and Simone Weil's lesser known compilation of writings, Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertextuality