Thursday, January 01, 2026

A line from Hassan-i-Sabbah (maybe)


Voici le temps des Assassins. —Arthur Rimbaud: Matinée d'ivresse
Something he didn't say, though the Crusaders apparently insisted he had: &, after that, a motley crew — from Silvestre de Sacy & Friedrich Nietzsche though to the Assassins' Creed franchise, with a long pause at Vladamir Bartol's novel Alamul. Which means that nothing is true is a truth & something akin to the self-referent paradox put forward by the Cretan philosopher, Epimenides of Knossos, 20 millenia earlier — all Cretans are liars.

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