Surviving Mauritius¶
Poetry, philosophy, photography, and notes from Mauritius — by Alex Ng.
Latest writing¶
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December 27, 2025 · Philosophy Sartre, the Gaze, and the Impossible Escape
The Self is always caught within the gaze of Others. In a Sartrean sense, "escape" takes on a different meaning.
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March 27, 2025 · Philosophy Under Cover
Numbered Discourses 3.131 — three things conveyed under cover, three that shine in the open.
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March 27, 2025 · Photography Komorebi
Sunlight through leaves. Three photographs.
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January 29, 2025 · Poetry Self Destruction
If I could condense all the mornings that I've lived until now into a list…
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January 21, 2025 · Poetry The sublime and the bold
Rise, Fall, Descent, The sublime and the bold, In the world — a sequence in five parts.
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January 3, 2025 · Poetry Rise and Shimmering lights
Two short pieces from the ante room of infinity.
Sections¶
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Words arranged to touch the part of people that is still primal.
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The big questions — finding meaning in the absurd.
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A tiny window fixed on an even tinier moment.
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Who writes here, and why.