December 2011
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tooearlytoolate:
Goodbye, 2011, from Stephan...
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“You know I really have no wish to be set free, nor to be helped, by art or by...”
– Samuel Beckett, The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1941-1956 (via ds-litjournal)
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revdrpeepers:
Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this.
-Richard Brautigan
Brautigan shot himself in the head with a .44 Magnum. His decomposing body was found a month later with this suicide note:
Messy, isn’t it?
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“A new study examining self-regulation reveals that thinking about god does help...”
– How the Concept of “God” Influences Goal Pursuit (via alea)
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speakmnemosyne:
Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand; What are all those fish that lie gasping on the strand?
—W.B. Yeats, Three movements
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“Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly,
Asleep on the black trunk,
Blowing...”
– “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota,” James Wright (via ray-pride)
“VYSHINSKY: Accused Bukharin, were you with Khodjayev at his country place?
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– A. Badiou, Théorie du sujet (via circulationwithinmyskull)
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divachrist:
my other new year’s resolution is to be a normal person and instead of freaking the fuck out when people say stuff like “tell me about yourself” just smile and go like well i go to pratt and i like x y and z and i did this yesterday when really all i want to do is go WELL I HAVE NO SELF SO UH I’M HERE AND I LIKE YOU AND I’M REALLY SCARED!!!!
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“In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” isn’t about Sept. 11. It’s...”
– Manohla Dargis (!!)
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“Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals...”
– Chris Marker, Sans soleil, 1983. (via slaapliedje)
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timeimmemorial:
Wrong living, impotent aspirations; “What I would, that I do not; but what I hate, that do I,” as St. Paul says; self-loathing, self-despair; an unintelligible and intolerable burden to which one is mysteriously the heir.
William James, from The Varieties of Religious Experience
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The Return of Radical Chic →
forgottenness:
“Around the edges of the Occupy movement, a new generation of creatives is beginning to make art that actually matters. Some of that art can be found daubed on pieces of cardboard and held aloft at marches, some of it is tacked on the walls at radical bookshops or illegally wheat-pasted around major world financial districts. Much of it happens on the Internet, and all...
“The only pure, virginal sense that remains is touch. It hasn’t been...”
– Jan Švankmajer (via ray-pride)
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unjustlyunread replied to your photo: Via Blind Pony Books: These tales are quite…
Attempt #3: It’s used as the afterword for _Microscripts_: bookdepository.com/Micr…
Thank you! I ordered the book just now.
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“Me, I shall be something very lowly and small. The feeling that tells me this is...”
– Jakob Von Gunten, Robert Walser.
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Cézanne →
davidhudson:
“Cézanne was discovering a complementarity between the equilibrium of the body and the inevitability of landscape. The indentations of some rocks in the forest of Fontainebleau have the intimacy of armpits. His late baigneuses form ranges like mountains. The deserted quarry at Bibémus looks like a portrait. What is the secret behind this? Cézanne’s conviction that what we...
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“God is dead but my hair is perfect.”
– Bernard-Henri Lévy (via nedhepburn)
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“He suggested, hypothetically, that, were all the storytellers to fall silent,...”
– An Episode In The Life Of A Landscape Painter, Cesar Aira
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“… it seems most remarkable to me that the great geniuses among the poets...”
– Kierkegaard, Sept. 11, 1834.
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