February 2011
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“What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!”
– Gustave Flaubert, from the Egyptian journals
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“There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
– Francis Bacon, “Of Beauty”
January 2011
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WatchDustin O’Hallaron, “Fragile N.4”
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“I am, and ever have been, a great reader, and have read almost...”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge, November 19, 1796.
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“… the shadow of this tall black tree hides the forest that was your life.”
– Eduoard Levé, Suicide
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“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful...”
– Frank O’Hara (via aurai, mianoti)
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Clem leek, “Snow Tale #1”
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“The point is to change certain ways of thinking—ways of feeling that have...”
– Paul Valéry, Monsieur Teste
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No. 42
We need only experience desire to cure us of the illusion of free will.
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Joe Purdy, “Good Days”
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“All through the dark the wind looks
for the grief it belongs to”
– W.S. Merwin, “Night Wind”
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This Will Destroy You, “Quiet” (via:...
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“Let yourself be led by the child you were.”
– The Book of Exhortations
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No. 41
Always this compulsion to seek elsewhere the definition of my condition—which is nothing other than being human—hoping to find a precise articulation of myself others’ words. Yet what stranger is intimate with my heart?
Nevertheless, I crave these opinions and gather them to me, as if by sheer accumulation they prove I belong, alive.
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Some terms relating to drunkenness from Francis...
ADMIRAL OF THE NARROW SEAS. One who from drunkenness vomits into the lap of the person sitting opposite to him.
ALTITUDES. The man is in his altitudes, i.e. he is drunk.
TO CAT, or SHOOT THE CAT. To vomit from drunkenness.
CORNED. Drunk.
CUP-SHOT. Drunk.
DUTCH FEAST. Where the entertainer gets drunk before his guest.
HALF SEAS OVER. Almost drunk.
NAZY. Drunken. Nazy cove or mort; a drunken...