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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?" 19 hours, 5 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

 
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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

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

“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.”
Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

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

Hervé Le Tellier
“Le vrai pessimiste sait qu'il est déjà trop tard pour l'être.”
Hervé Le Tellier, L'Anomalie

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