February 2012
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“Marooned in a lonely crowd, the solitary has to be impeccable and without...”
– John Burnside ‘Alone: A Memoir’ from London Review of Books, Volume 34, No. 3, 9th February 2012
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Prophecy
It was prophesied that Odysseus would know the place of his death when he met a man who mistakes the oar he is carrying for a winnowing fan.
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“I cannot contemplate the prospect of having to write homeless thoughts again.”
– Walter Benjamin from Archive
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“To keep these notes natural and useful to me I must keep one note from leading...”
– W. B. Yeats from Autobiographies
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“The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up in at the instant when...”
– Walter Benjamin from Theses on the Philosophy of History
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“I lauch to see my crazy little brain
- And ither folks’ - takan itsel...”
– Hugh MacDiarmid from A Drunk Man Looks at a Thistle
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“I inhabited a territory of loneliness which resembles the place where the dying...”
– Janet Frame on the experience of her incaceration in a mental institution for almost ten years
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“But there are other writers - and I don’t mean straight-down-the-line...”
– Geoff Dyer from Zona: A Book About a FIlm About a Journey to a Room
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“The gods are alive,
Yes, but yonder, up there, in another world overhead....”
– Friedrich Holderlin from ‘Bread and Wine’
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“Whatever spark or gift I possess has been transmitted to Lucia and it has...”
– James Joyce about his daughter
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“She gave a childy cloudy cry: Nuee! Nuee! A lightdress fluttered. She was gone....”
– James Joyce from Finnegans Wake
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“This is what exists. The grass growing in houses, the dandelions in the...”
– Max Frisch on the devastation of post-war Europe
“Benthic refers to actions taking place at the bottom of a body of water.”
– from Tumblr’s Invisible Stories Autoportrait II (February)
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“I think that what a person normally goes to the cinema for is TIME, whether for...”
– Andrei Tarkovsky from Sculpting in Time
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“For our blues we have the azures and ceruleans, lapis lazuli, the light and...”
– William H. Gass from On Being Blue
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“drifting, twisting, whiteout, blackbird braille, Wenceslasaire, avalanche,...”
– Kate Bush from ‘50 Words for Snow’ (from the album of the same title released in 2011)