bruegel, bocsh, hell and all that

images of hell dominated by the egg, the orb, the embryo; interiority: the mouth (belly of the beast). Re: foucault- madness: hell as a paradigmatic space, headless forms: hell as proxy consciousness, a shared consciousness a construct subjective, relative and omnipotent: universal hell: its signifiers instantly recognizable: flames, fever, delerium.
hell as the feminine: pit, gap, gape, hole, womb, eve, original sin. again: the egg, birth, re-birth, re-incarnation, cycle, the circle, Dante?
birth as the first step toward damnation; the inevitability of the fall and the inherant evil of the flesh.
the horror of these images is their equating of fertility and hell; far from being barren and devoid of life this is a place of growth and mutation: a self perpetuating wilderness the compost of which is our present world; hades is not merley a receptical for the fallen, it is a rhizomic continuum inseperable from creation; both breugal and bosch confuse the cronology of existence both heaven and hell are engines of our reality; why do we see hell as subterrainian- hell is the soil in which we grow and though we may temporarily appear to escape its hold, we remain rooted in it and we will certainly return to it.

bertie russel

my grandfather followed bertrand russel to north wales in the aftermath of the war, clough ellis provided a number of his old Cambridge acquaintances with freehold tenancies: my mother has told me that BR's childeren were strcken with problems throughout their lives; given that they may well have been as close to something approaching philosophical truth as any member of society the question must arise: how much comfort can the truth provide? does philosophy offer any assistance at all in our lives? does living matter? 
PS: pandas may constitute the only species living what could be termed an authentic existence, given the choice between compromising their ascetic lifestyle (eating nutritionally dubious and physically joyless bamboo whilst abstaining from gratuitous sexual activity) or simply lying down and dying: the panda will often choose the latter. human interference in the lives of these creatures is not an honest endeavor to prevent the demise of a hapless teddy bear, but a vicious intervention the consequence of which is the undermining of millions of years of evolution and the sabotaging  of the pandas attempts to find a final, true species wide transcendence. we should view captive breeding programs as forced rape camps and see our interventions in the panda world as aggressive imposition of our flawed ideals on a far nobler breed than our own. why? the reason for these atrocities is simple enough: the panda offers a window into our own ultimate evolution, we must cease proliferation and attempt perfection now within this generation, having children is spiritual death and existential denial of any possibility of transcendence and perfection. KILL ALL THE KITTENS AND BUDGERIGARS!