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Got my new FDA -approved KN95 mask today and tested it out.
- Slightly bigger (15-20%) than the KN95 masks I had before but still a tight fit for me (I have a large head)
-hard to breathe through if one is moving around, which is point of the whole thing.
-Physically it looks very similar to other KN95 masks- probably similar as I can't breathe well from those either.
-The nose clip is internal which is better than the masks with external nose clips
-given the tight fit I suspect that the loops will snap over time if one uses it as a reusable.
Breath-ability is around the same (not good) with or without a the thin base layer (cheap blue disposable mask)
Breathability is worse than the thick blue medical masks (Eg. Medline) that I was using before.
. . A people without history
Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern
Of timeless moments.
TS Eliot, Four Quartets
. . Redeem
The time. Redeem
The unread vision in the higher dream
TS Eliot, Ash Wednesday
And from Dante, Eliot learned “to consider memory not simply as the repository for images of the past, but as a power that allows us to reshape and interpret past experiences into a new and different form.”
St. John, in his often-studied mystical writings, describes the “dark night” as an episode of emptying the self of desires and passions. Forsaking the time-conditioned, time-restrained ego, choosing to renounce temporal gratifications—it is suggested—opens up possible liberation from this world’s “metalled ways” by reconnecting the soul to its source.
One of St. John’s major themes involves a radical shift in our ordinary habits of thought by choosing forms of detachment and depravation that lead through purgation to illumination and encountering the divine.
the negative way of “deprivation” and “internal darkness”—if deliberately chosen—involves becoming reduced to a state of emptiness, poverty, and abandonment, for the sensual part is purified in emptiness and the spirit is purified in darkness