May 2013
7 posts
“There have been nights, admit it, when you’ve thought you heard your name...”
– Albert Goldbarth
“Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between...”
– Theodor Adorno from Minima Moralia: Reflections of Damaged Life
“To be a bird is to be more intensely alive than any other living creature, man...”
– Norman J. Berrill, quoted in Caspar Henderson’s wondrous Book of Barely Imagined Beings
April 2013
6 posts
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“Heidegger’s term Geworfenheit: being thrown without explanation into an...”
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“How conscious and rarional and controlled is poetry? Can poetry afford to be?...”
– Randall Jarrell
March 2013
18 posts
“Perhaps ‘hearing’ is not quite accurate, since the colour sensation...”
– Vladimir Nabokov from Speak, Memory
“I had no sooner made a sound on the A string, or D or G or C, than I no longer...”
– Jacques Lusseyran from And There was Light
“All writing, all composition, is construction. We do not imitate the world, we...”
– Robert Scholes from Structural Fabrications
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“But with the book in this condition of the defined shape, firm of outline, its...”
– Percy Lubbock from The Craft of Fiction
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“There’s only one subject: failure.”
– John Hawkes
“To become a child is to be very literal; to find everything so strange that...”
– Virginia Woolf from ‘Lewis Carroll’ in The Moment and Other Essays
“If reality could immediately reach our senses and our consciousness, if we could...”
– Henri Bergson from Laughter
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
– Father Zossima from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov
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February 2013
23 posts
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“It is not to be read – or rather it is not only to be read. It is to be looked...”
– Samuel Beckett on Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake
“When WE concentrate on a material object, whatever its situation, the very act...”
– Vladimir Nabokov from Transparent Things
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“I do think that we largely delude ourselves with the knowledge that we think we...”
– W. G. Sebald to James Wood, New York, July 1995
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“If there is a narrative form intrinsic to still photography, it will search for...”
– John Berger and Jean Mohr from Another Way of Telling. 