death, life, touch

ἄνθρωπος ἐν εὐφροσύνηι

φάος ἅπτεται ἑωυτῶι·

ἀποθανών, ἀποσβεσθεὶς ὄψεις, ζῶν δέ·

ἅπτεται τεθνεῶτος·

εὕδων, ἀποσβεσθεὶς ὄψεις· ἐγρηγορὼς

ἅπτεται εὕδοντος.

Heraclit. F26 / Clem. Strom. IV, 141, 1

Человек в ночи

себе свет зажигает собою.

Мертв он: погасши очами, хоть жив,

соприкасается с мертвым.

Спит он: погасши очами, [хоть] бодр,

соприкасается с спящим.

Гераклит, фр. 26 / Климент, Строматы (пер. С. Муравьева)

A human being touches

a light for himself in the night,

when his sight is quenched. Living,

he touches the dead in his sleep;

waking, he touches the sleeper.

(Transl. N. Elias, L. Ruiz)

Doubles

sometimes i see nobody but doubles, someone anonymous resembling someone i know
resemblance depersonalizes both of them
and now while reading Porphyry these lines suddenly capture my attention:

"10. Everything in everything, but everything's nature way: ... in the bodies - in form of semblance...
12. Not only among the bodies homonymy happens..."

Porphyry. The Sententiae ad intelligilia ducentes

Seduction

A man playing a woman embodying the ideal desired woman making grotesque of his play reverses the desire making this man who is playing grotesquely a desired woman desired (O. Ivashyna,  J. Baudrillard).

Photo source: http://laurapalmerwalkswithme.tumblr.com/post/19632660612/rich-e-rich-amanda-lepore

Rich-e-Rich and Amanda Lepore, the Goddess of surgery

cyber sensitivity

'like'ful thinking (in Facebook) is in fact our desire to touch and to be touched
so,
'like me' / 'touch me'