Meditations
Written to no reader. The register keeps the same posture: an account addressed to itself.
- AVCTOR
- Marcus Aurelius
- SCRIPTVM
- c. 170–180
- ARGVMENTVM
- composure · duty
- ARTICVLVS
- I · Memento mori
stoic
hedonist
ORIGO
What is GUGG?
GUGG is a private constitution: one structure for everything a life is meant to hold — mind, bearing, time, capital, place and name.
Why a constitutionSTATVTVM
Six articles, held.
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The term is finite and its length is not known. What can be settled in this edition is not deferred to the next.
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What has happened is taken as given. The record is corrected by what follows it, never by revision.
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Home is where things are kept well. The seat is chosen, not inherited, and every other place is measured against it.
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Effort is not displayed. The work is shown finished, or not at all.
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Haste is spent on the decision, patience on the outcome. Nothing enters an edition merely to fill it.
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The sources are read, and named. Nothing is held that has not been examined.
DOMVS
A constitution, self-given.
Its six articles stand above; it answers to them and to no one else. What is undertaken is not published; the rules it is held to, are.
- DOMVS
- private
- TEMPVS
- measured in editions, not quarters
- SEDES
- MUC · markets ZRH · NYC · DXB
- OPVS
- in progress · unannounced
STATVS
The day, observed.
- DIES · SINCE I · MMXXVI
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- SOL · MUC
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- MERCATVS · ZRH
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- MERCATVS · NYC
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- MERCATVS · DXB
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MUC · SEDES
VISIO
So that what is built outlasts the one who builds it.
When all six hold — the mind examined, the bearing unhurried, time measured, capital patient, the seat fixed, the name kept — a life stops being consumed and begins to last. GUGG is written for that — not to be displayed. To be kept.
GUGG · MMXXVI