January 2011
115 posts
What is important...
…it seems to me, is not so much to defend a culture whose existence has never kept a man from going hungry, as to extract, from what is called culture, ideas whose compelling force is identical with that of hunger. ARTAUD.
“The original is unfaithful to the translation.”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via toji37)
“Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is...”
– Yevgeny Yevtushenko (via toji37)
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Scandal by Louise Bennett
(Some wallow eena scandal like hog eena dutty water.) De same smaddy yuh hear-so from Gwine spread hear-so pon yuh! An dem-deh weh yuh hear-so bout Gwine hear-so bout yuh to! For hear-so no got no bridle! All dem rumour weh dah fly Spring form idleness and grudgefulness An plenty time is lie! So pudung carry-go-bring-come, Hear-so, hear-seh, seh-seh, susu! For yu carpas qwine be hot When kas-kas...
Upon your penitential morning,
some skull must rub its memory with ashes,
some mind must squat down howling in your dust,
some hand must crawl and recollect your rubbish,
someone must write your poems.
“There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered:...”
– Judith Martin (via contrive)
Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the...
MIND FUCK
Watchecstaticlandscapes:
A glitched up copy of Lost Highway and Lil B make the Hiiiway.
“Every morning I forget how it is.
I watch the smoke mount
In great strides...”
– Charles Simic, Poem (via wearebasiclight)
if it takes getting a gang of thugs to kill julian...
tetradugenica:
i dont even care about getting purged when we become a threat to the army
im just bored
GOATS ON THE ROOF
In the village on Lake Van where Gorky was born and raised, goats could disturb a night’s sleep by jumping onto the flat clay roof to steal the precious drying apricots. Gorky used this phrase to describe the feeling of waking up at odds with the world.
Images are for illustrative purposes only.
Lichtenberg
A madman who imagines himself a prince differs from the prince who is in fact a prince only because the former is a negative prince, while the latter is a negative madman. Considered without their sign, they are alike.
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