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"On the crown of the passional relation I live,dead to oneness,non-entity and unalone,untouched by the pulls of the solitudes,at rest above the deep green central flowing falling away on either hand to the special margins,the red solitude and the violet solitude,the red oneness and the violent oneness;at the summit of the bow, indifferent to the fake integrities,the silence between my eyes,the body between the wings." Jun 07, 2026 07:45AM

 
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"With raiding no longer an option in home territory, Caliph Umar 644took the Levant, inclJerusalem.The new rulers didn’t care what religion their subjects practised, as long as they paid their taxes; Christians, Jews and Muslims all worshipped the same God of Abraham, as far as Muslims were concerned;Jews were now allowed to live in Jerusalem for the 1st time since the Roman destruction of the 2nd Temple in 70 ce." Jun 03, 2026 12:52PM

 
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"What am I in this instant? I am a typewriter making the dry keys echo on the dark and humid early hours. For a long time I haven’t been people. They wanted me to be an object. I’m an object. An object dirty with blood. That creates other objects and the typewriter all of us. It demands. The mechanism demands and demands my life. But I don’t obey totally: if I must be an object let it be an object that screams." Jun 02, 2026 04:37AM

 
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Volodymyr Vynnychenko
“Стає темно. Потім знов блискавка і видно, як ті - ж берестки з розмаху нахиляються до землі, мов бажаючи щось з неї підняти, й, не діставши, одкидаються назад, злісно, безсило тріпочуть кучерявими віттями й знов розхитуються... А старі дуби стоять, стогнуть і неначе з жалем і тугою хитають головами на силкування молодіжи. А там, на мосту, над головою, здається, злетілись дві величезні армії й скажено бʼються. Грюкіт гармат, тупотіння коней, несамовите ревіння, все мішається в страшенний, дужий концерт, де можна чути й шепотіння пекельної злости, й грюкіт гніву. А виття болю й ненависти, й страх, й дужий, радісний поклик до бою й повне одчаю й муки знесилля. Бій не змовкає й кров потоками дощу ллеться на ліс, прориває листя, стікає на бричку й починає капати за шию й на голову…”
Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Контрасти

Gregory Skovoroda
“Ac ex visibili nosce metaphysica.”
Gregory Skovoroda, Ausgewählte Werke

Gabriel Josipovici
“What Beckett is dramatising here is a quite different view of the notion that man is the storytelling animal. What he is showing is that we may indeed have an innate capacity to tell stories, but that far from this being the royal road to truth it is simply a way of avoiding the truth, of avoiding the sense that something nameless is taking its course, that our lives are passing us by, that we are moving inexorably towards a death we do not understand or want and certainly do not know how to cope with.

But what does that do to the feeling that something nameless is taking its course, something that needs to be dealt with that otherwise will drive him mad? This, it seems to me, is the paradox that lies at the heart of all modern art: the need to speak of that which cannot be uttered, together with the recognition that the utterance perverts or destroys the thing that needed to be spoken of.”
Gabriel Josipovici, The Teller and the Tale: Essays on Literature and Culture

Helen Macdonald
“We so often think of the past as a something like a nature reserve: a discrete, bounded place we can visit in our imaginations to make us feel better. I wonder how we could learn to recognise that the past is always working on us and through us, and that diversity in all its forms, human and natural, is strength.”
Helen Macdonald

Natalie Díaz
“Brodsky said, Darkness restores what light cannot repair.”
Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

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