March 2011
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“But this road doesn’t go anywhere,” I told him. “That...”
– Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
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Lautréamont: A few of my favorite things
“Upheavals, anxieties, deprivation, death, exceptions in the physical and moral order, the spirit of negation, brutishness, hallucinations willfully induced, torture, destruction, sudden reversals of fortune, tears, instability, servitude, wildly burrowing imaginations, novels, the unexpected, the forbidden, the mysterious, vulture-like chemical peculiarities which watch over the carrion of...
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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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Meditations on an Emergency
Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. The country is grey and brown and white in trees, snows and skies of laughter always diminishing, less funny not just darker, not just grey. It may be the coldest day of the year, what does he think of that? I mean, what do I? And if I do, perhaps I am...
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“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our...”
– Henry James
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Saltwater The train rubs up on the platform like a hissing cat, announcing its return to the city for the thirteenth time today. I topple out, slip on something and land on my feet, and I think, isn’t that just a damn miracle? because marching up and down interminable staircases can cause weak ankles in a city that makes you dance on them. The sidewalks rumble like restless tigers, my stomach is...
everything is just too great to care about this...
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don’t forget what you’ve learned all...
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Sonnets to Orpheus II, 12
Want the change. Be inspired by the flame where everything shines as it disappears. The artist, when sketching, loves nothing so much as the curve of a body as it turns away.
Pour yourself out like a fountain. Flow into the knowledge that what you are seeking finishes often at the start, and, with ending, begins. Every happiness is the child of a separation it...