The Hermetic Library Blog

Faint gibbering heard from somewhere near the restricted stacks

Menu

Skip to content
  • Hermetic Library Blog
    • The Hermetic Library
    • Newsletter
    • Anthology
    • Omnium Gatherum
    • Reading Room
    • Interviews
    • Visual
    • Audio
    • Video
    • Arts and Letters
    • Goods and Services
    • Calendar Events
    • Research Topics
    • Podcasts
    • Postal Potlatch
  • Hermetic Library
    • About
    • Contact
    • Participate
    • Become a Patron
    • Features
    • Fellows
    • Figures
    • Forms
    • Fundamentals
    • Fraternity
    • Reflections
  • Hrmtc Underground
    • Blog
    • Radio
    • Merch
    • Email Newsletter
    • Pitch an Idea
    • Submit to the Zine
    • Suggest Something
    • Request for Help
    • Seeking Others
    • Tumblog
    • Bandcamp
  • Calendar Events
    • About
    • Submissions
    • Locations
  • Hermetic Library Zine
    • About
    • Submissions
    • Issues

During the act of procreation, the force that bonds two people together escaping solitude is in essence a trait that exists in each person, a madness which is imbued with a grief that slowly draws toward the depths of death.

Sadegh Hedayat, trans. Naveed Noori, The Blind Owl [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]

Hermetic quote Hedayat The Blind Owl act procreation force bond people together escaping solitude madness grief depths death

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)

Like this:

Like Loading...
October 30, 2021

Post navigation

← “Good grief, Sal thought. This is awful. They can do all kinds of things we can’t; they’re centuries ahead of us. Who around here that I know can annihilate time? No one. He groaned aloud.” Masters of Atlantis →

Popular Posts

  • Hermetic Library Newsletter #106
  • Biblically accurate sexuality
  • “the key to human development is building on who you already are”
  • Princess of Cups
  • Hermetica & Mysticism
  • Anthology news, 3feb2023
  • Conservatives have cursed the librarians
  • Seshat and the Clitoris
  • "We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched & the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. "
  • To all the monsters hiding in this world, I hope the children will skin you alive. To the children in the world, let no one say you can’t make your monsters bleed.

Recent Posts

  • The Bacchae: A New Musical
  • Mami Wata
  • “Concentrated on imaginary self for ten minutes, and then projected self into it with fearful force.”
  • Why Prometheus Risked EVERYTHING For Humans
  • Astronomical Imbolc – Feb 4, 2023 at 2:43 UTC

Member of the Hrmtc Underground Network

Proudly powered by WordPress
%d bloggers like this: