February 2012
21 posts
SOME ANATOMIES OF MELANCHOLY by Robert Burton:
“Natural love or hatred is that sympathy or antipathy which is to be seen in animate and inanimate creatures, in the four elements, metals, stones, gravia tendunt deorsum [heavy bodies tend downwards], as a stone to his centre, fire upward, and rivers to the sea. The sun, moon, and stars still go round, amantes naturae debita exercere, for love of perfection. This love is manifest, I say, in...
DON BARTHELME, CAN WE TALK:
“When my falling event was postponed, were you disappointed? Did you experience a disillusionment-event?
Hunted for a Post. To lean upon in the black hours ahead. And composed a brochure to lure folk into my new building. Titled “The Human Heart in Conflict With Itself.” Promising 24-hour incineration. And other features.
Dancing on my parquet floor in my parquet shorts. To...
"You're the sort of person who,
on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live in the expectation of extraordinary experiences: from books, from people, from journeys, from events, from what tomorrow has in store. But not you. You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst. This is the conclusion you have reached, in your personal life and also in...
RECUPERATING AFTER THE LAST HURDLE
Ouch, sore. I’ve been pounding it out on the pavement lately. While I run at night, I indulge my thoughts of subjective violence:
Splashing red latex on boring paintings and half baked ideas, exploding camera equipment into confetti. Watching you watching me fuck shit up.
Crouching in the corner like a poltergeist, reaching into cupboards and smashing plates while you have your supper. Or...
From THE DIARY OF VASLAV NIJINSKY:
“I was called to lunch at half-past twelve. I wanted to eat. I did not lunch as I saw meat. My wife wanted to eat it. I left the soup, which was made out of meat, my wife became angry. She thought that I disliked the food. I dislike meat, because I know how the animals are killed and how they cry. I wanted to show her that marriage is nonexistent if people are of different opinion. I threw...
January 2012
31 posts
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LADISLAV KLIMA SAYS:
“Not only may one imagine that what is higher derives always and only from what is lower; one may imagine that - given the polarity and, more important, the ludicrousness of the world - everything derives from its opposite: day from night, frailty from strength, deformity from beauty, fortune from misfortune. Victory is made up exclusively of beatings.”
THE ASHTRAY by Raymond Carver
You could write a story about this
ashtray, for example, and a man and a
woman. But the man and woman are
always the two poles of your story.
The North Pole and the South. Every
story has these two poles - he and she.
- A. P. CHEKHOV
They’re alone at the kitchen table in her friend’s
apartment. They’ll be alone for another hour, and then
her friend will be back....
"4. Punta Banda, Baja California North, July 20,...
conflict …
Last night I felt the spirit that gripped me for months leave my body. I was no longer “in love.” I was left with a vivid and heightened sense of the tangible. What was in front of my face - the rooms in this house, the carved rails on the bed, the night wind blowing against the net curtains - became suddenly real, newly interesting. Released, I was happy. Because...
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Anyway, there are dozens of peacocks that live wild in the park. They just sort of roam around doing whatever they want. They’ve been there for years, God knows how long. There used to be an albino one, really special, I remember when he died a few years back there was an article in the local paper, like an obituary.
So I came across two male birds yesterday, and had a really special...
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