“Someone once compared the undertaking of Descartes to the action of a man who sets his house on fire in order to hear the noise rats make in the attic at night.”
—Michel Serres, The Parasite. (via batarde)
June 2013
“(… There used to be a theory that Shakespeare’s plays were not written by William Shakespeare, but by another man of the same name.)”
—Eliot Weinberger, “What Were the Questions?”
“The glory of landscape.
Cliffs full of swallows.” —Eliot Weinberger, A Journey on the Colorado River
Cliffs full of swallows.” —Eliot Weinberger, A Journey on the Colorado River
“A bruised part of the body is not a part of the body in its normal state, and philosophy, literature, and art must also serve people who have not had their teeth knocked out, their eyes blackened, or their jaws broken.”
—Witold Gombrowicz, Diary, trans. Lillian Vallee (via differenceetrepetition)
“Another word for dream is ‘the walking rooms.’”
—Cole Swensen, The Glass Age
“; the hills more than philosophy.”
— Richard Jeffries, The Story of My Heart: An Autobiography (via johnsparker)
“A poem is occurring every moment
for example
that fluttering of mute flies” —Three lines from Mario Santiago Papasquiaro’s Advice from 1 Disciple of Marx to 1 Heidegger Fanatic
for example
that fluttering of mute flies” —Three lines from Mario Santiago Papasquiaro’s Advice from 1 Disciple of Marx to 1 Heidegger Fanatic
