March 2012
18 posts
February 2012
24 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...
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...
