November 2010
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“
hell is no worse than your earth
above the earth,
hell is no worse,
no, nor...”
– from “Eurydice,” by H.D.
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No. 26
Oh, that I will never be someone else.
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Cate Le Bon, “Me Oh My”
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“The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, all too human (via mianoti)
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No. 25
November 20
A thunderstorm in San Francisco.
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From "What is the Contemporary?" by Giorgio...
In the firmament that we observe at night, the stars shine brightly, surrounded by a thick darkness. Since the number of galaxies and luminous bodies in the universe is almost infinite, the darkness that we see in the sky is something that, according to scientists, demands an explanation… In an expanding universe, the most remote galaxies move away from us at a speed so great that their...
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Chris Bathgate, “We die”
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“Dante… claimed in his unfinished treatise on language… that ever...”
– Daniel Heller-Roazen, Echolalias: On the forgetting of language
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“The heart of another is a dark forest.”
– Turgenev, “The Duellist”
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“There is, in the act of love, a great resemblance to torture or to a surgical...”
– Baudelaire, Intimate Journals 