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"Some art historians say that an archaeological site is always a destruction site. Is that true? Do we have to destroy things in order to see them, sever things in order to know them? And what kind of knowing is that?" — 6 hours, 24 min ago
"Some art historians say that an archaeological site is always a destruction site. Is that true? Do we have to destroy things in order to see them, sever things in order to know them? And what kind of knowing is that?" — 6 hours, 24 min ago
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"This imonologue has is not very different from Molly Bloom in Ulysses! Superb!
Outside my door
the dog barking
I know what it is
My lover’s here
Off with my stockings
down
parfumed stairs
My good-for-nothing lover
is drunk tonight
I help him into
my silk-curtained bed
Will he take off the silk gown?
O! O! not he
Milord is drunk let him be
Better that
than sleeping alone
By anonymous women poet (10th century)." — Sep 03, 2026 01:09PM
"This imonologue has is not very different from Molly Bloom in Ulysses! Superb!
Outside my door
the dog barking
I know what it is
My lover’s here
Off with my stockings
down
parfumed stairs
My good-for-nothing lover
is drunk tonight
I help him into
my silk-curtained bed
Will he take off the silk gown?
O! O! not he
Milord is drunk let him be
Better that
than sleeping alone
By anonymous women poet (10th century)." — Sep 03, 2026 01:09PM
“Brodsky said, Darkness restores what light cannot repair.”
― Postcolonial Love Poem
― Postcolonial Love Poem
“In the U.S. election of 1860, the New York Herald's owner James Gordon Bennett Sr. warned the white workers of New York, "... if Lincoln is elected, you will have to compete with the labor of four million emancipated negroes.”
― The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
― The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
“a situation developed that had no clear beginning or end. It emerged and flowered and receded again over a day or a handful of days. He was old enough now to know that these situations, these flowering, which in youth seem almost identical to the forward-driving story of life, in fact turn out to be life itself. It was in these moments of hope and expectation and disillusion, of prelude, before the will decides to conscript the self into conformity, that they really lived.”
― Parade
― Parade
“Le vrai pessimiste sait qu'il est déjà trop tard pour l'être.”
― L'Anomalie
― L'Anomalie
“We acquired things and used them and disposed of them. What we liked best was disposing of them. It felt like disposing the bad and burdensome parts of ourselves. It felt momentarily, like disposing of our own bodies. Sometimes we sensed that we were living counter to nature, were at odds with it, and this manifested itself as intolerable feeling of material chaos and disorder, to which a material solution could usually be found.”
― Parade
― Parade
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