January 2012
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Greensleeves
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“He pins notes to his corkboard
With multicolored tacks…
Red is for...”
– Eugene Ostashevsky, from “My Brother, the Rock Star”
Hello to numb self; now. It takes too many attempts to finally uncover and understand the sad pattern. I think people can forget that very old wooden boxes are difficult - the wood is swollen, can only be opened drunkenly and then what box what purpose really just a construct that holds and doesn’t hold the same nothing all around it.
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“what it is like to be dead
but have to finish
the sentence
that is all...”
– Ed Taylor, from “Bulletin”
timeimmemorial:
We are no longer the same, you wiser but not sadder, and I sadder but not wiser, for wiser I could hardly become without grave personal inconvenience, whereas sorrow is a thing you can keep adding to all your life long, is it not, like a stamp or an egg collection, without feeling very much the worse for it, is it not.
— Samuel Beckett, Watt (1943)
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“I’m still here alone in the night hours with everyone.
And everything...”
– Franz Wright, from “Progress”
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“a woman who wants to make a home
in all this: let her, lord, in your huge hand...”
– Ales Debeljak, from “Before a Throne” tr. Andrew Zawascki and the author
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“(Sad now. Who-will-feed-you-the-evening-spoon.)…
the evening sky
grand...”
– Ana Bozicevic-Bowling, from “Light is the First Animal of the Visible”
“Dawn is a gun shot,
but less humane.
Tell yourself
again each morning—
the...”
– Sarah Barlett, On Survival/Off Death (via grammatolatry
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“Apparently those who are happy can only enjoy themselves because the unhappy...”
– Anton Chekhov (via whyexistence)
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“His voice fades. Most of his ruminations end this way - not morosely, as in his...”
– Amy S. Rosenberg, from “Sendak, picturing mortality,” an interview with Maurice Sendak (via)
“VYSHINSKY: Accused Bukharin, were you with Khodjayev at his country place?
...”
– Théorie du sujet - A.Badiou (via circulationwithinmyskull)
This is how things work. A meets B. A understands B hunches over the same way A does, but A discounts this and does not understand her understanding. Later, A is impressed by B and one day in a cafe brief words are exchanged. But A does not talk to anyone yet, and relativistically believes these few words with B are maybe the whole story of time. Later, A and B both miss their appointments to look...
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“In staying suffers. In
suffering is subject to brief instances of wakefulness...”
– Heather Ramsdell, from “Vague Swimmers”
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“You fail to experience the city’s depth, you fail to experience the sense...”
– Ben Lerner, from Behold the Man: Apology for the Player Piano
“The most passionate person whom I have known is in fact the most chaste.”
– Albert Camus, Notebooks: 1951-1959 (o, enne)
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“…but the smallest part & learn from that to make do without sinking back into my own absence”
— Jacob Russell, from “Poem to the End of My Days”
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“I am not trying to seem resistant to influences. I merely note that I have...”
– Samuel Beckett on reading Kafka, from The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1941-1956 (via)
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“He who matures early lives in anticipation. His experience is a-prioristic, an...”
– Theodore Adorno, from Minima Moralia tr. E. F. N. Jephcott (via)
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P: The statistician and the the poet need each other, But not yet.
S: You need us now. Without a theory of probability To guide you—
P: Not the unguided but the unguarded moments Are the most beautiful
S: Poetry is measure and measure now is population All signs signify groupings: we count people.
P: There are nonmeasurable groupings that defy...
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“why do you wash his feet?
he can only see one soul
do you know his version of...”
– Matthew Zapruder, from “Tom Nevers Head”
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“a theory, a mashing of discourse
a sentence writing not only its own words
the hands that torch them are we among
a vision pierced as its own reward”
—Tony Tost, from “Elephant and Obelisk”
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“But after the last leaf,
The last light—for each year is leafless,
Each...”
– Randall Jarrell, from “The House in the Woods”
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mythologyofblue:
The fruit, the red fruit that wants to fall — I am that one.
Sarah Hannah, “Cicatrix”
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“trees do not mean to cause us harm trees move themselves across the planet in wide invisible lines trees are all around us like fire once there was a song called Everything We Know About Chairs but nobody wrote it where would you even begin every day many things do not happen a perfect love a perfect winter you don’t fail once you keep failing ...
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“talk to me I said okay said the tree and it twinkled not like that I said I already know that talk to me about something new you monster it said that was a little better can we try this I said from a different perspective so we swapped places I was still the monster”
— Heather Christle, from “Half-Hedgehog...
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“But I already doubted whether this work was truly worth something and was...”
– Thomas Bernhard, from The Loser
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side products: The Monopoly of Suffering →
sideproducts:
Those who commit suicide have a pathological attraction for death, which they try to resist consciously but which they cannot totally suppress. Life in them is so unbalanced that no rational argument could set it right. There are no rational suicides, following to a logical conclusion a meditation on nothingness and the futility of life. […] No one commits suicide for external...
Watchmitford:
Dropping nitrogen-dipped roses.
“Writing is a sort of ongoing suicide. The ideal occupation for anyone who...”
– Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall (via invisiblestories)
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“Because, after rain, it smells like green tea his mother brews on
slow...”
– Oliver de la Paz, “For Hours, Fidelito Hangs from the Topmost Branch Before Letting Go”