WHEREIN WE THINK OURSELVES FEET FIRST OUT-INTO THE LUMINOUS CAVE OF CLIMBING THEORY AKA SILENT HUNGER FOR WHAT IS NOT THERE
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Francesco Petrarca. Ascent of Mt. Ventoux.
Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
Bo Earle. "Climbing without Ascent: Nietzsche’s Circuits of Pretense." the minnesota review 90 (2018): 114–129.
Nicola Masciandaro. "Because It's Not There: A Vision of Climbing and Life." Chapter 5 of On the Darkness of the Will. Milan: Mimesis, 2018. 123-37.
Olivier Massin (2014). Qu'est-ce qu'une montagne ? [What is a mountain?]. In Olivier Massin & Anne Meylan (eds.), Aristote chez les Helvètes. Ithaque.
Jeff Smoot. Pumping Concrete. Fourth Hill, 2018.
Meister Eckhart. "Sermon 13b." -- "Here I live from my own as God lives from His own. For the man who has once for an instant looked into this ground, a thousand marks of red minted gold are the same as a brass farthing. Out of this inmost ground, all your works should be wrought without Why. I say truly, as long as you do works for the sake of heaven or God or eternal bliss, from without, you are at fault. It may pass muster, but it is not the best. Indeed, if a man thinks he will get more of God by meditation, by devotion, by ecstasies, or by special infusion of grace than by the fireside or in the stable - that is nothing but taking God, wrapping a cloak round His head and shoving Him under a bench. For whoever seeks God in a special way gets the way and misses God, who lies hidden in it. But whoever seeks God without any special way gets Him as He is in Himself, and that man lives with the Son, and he is life itself. If a man asked life for a thousand years, 'Why do you live?' if it could answer it would only say, 'I live because I live.' That is because life lives from its own ground, and gushes forth from its own. Therefore it lives without Why, because it lives for itself. And so, if you were to ask a genuine man who acted from his own ground, 'Why do you act?' if he were to answer properly he would simply say, 'I act because I act.'"