Status Updates From Alix's Journal (French Lite...

Decided to read this gem again.

God is not someone to be played with;he's neither an adversary nor a gaming partner.

...In playing with God, one loses every round.

"the relationship between translator and author is conjugal;one forgives the other nothing. Outsiders can do what they like;but not at home,where an explanation is required straight away,a meal straight away." Mouchard

Irgendwie = a thought in preparation.
Scholem

Alix was devastated by the suicide of close friend and collaborator, film-maker Jean Eustache, with whom she spoke by phone every night.



A short film they made together:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96LmS...

Joyce Wieland painting

Now that I've fractured my fucking goddamn ankle,space does indeed becomes discontinuous

Som ett brev på posten vid terminsstart; kraschat läsflow och buttert humör. Tröstar mig med dagboksfragment.

Morris Louis

breathtaking torrents of words which come to turn us into failed prosewriters like Arondel Jacquemier and me

Paul der Hollander

"ombre eloge inverse" seems to be a reference to her husband's
l"amour du nombre:
...la parenté de l'esthétique victorienne et de l'éloge de l'ombre), une composition poétique sous ce titre, Ombre, éloge inverse, née de ces photographies...

heteroclite = abnormal

youth is a merciful house

The visual is the affirmation of an ante-predicative substance unable to produce certainties yet giving a grounding, of a sort, to a belief in the real
in the same way that memory is the ground of belief in the past.

I told myself after this perfect day that I would never have seen it if, according to plan, I had killed myself in January--an infinite sweetness remains possible, the reasons for living have no overlap with the reasons for death.

O darling i'm a wreck and you know it why did you?marry me? At this hour i long to be your mehitabel you to be my archy(my reading when I was nine years old)i feel like anything you would choose to imagine on a machine o i love to write,o dear let me tell you while it is still time i love to write because i know for a fact there are some things you will only know 1)because you will hear from me

Who would be considered the Ensemblist poets, y'all poetry-people? Is that, like, followers of Whitman?

I wonder what was in her "Californian salad". I don't know this dish, and looking online returns many dissimilar results, from avocado and almond to mayo, bacon and green onion to spaghetti.

Would that we could be the dark-room for one another

"...like one of Ideko Narahara's photographs of Zen monks."
I'm going to assume she means Ikko Narahara here, since I can't find any results for the name she gives.

ce livre-là est juste trop intelligent pour moi

Extrait:
"Un image incomplète doit montrer qu'elle est incomplète.

Ce montrer comprend le retournement de la faiblesse en force.Deixis donnant son dehors du doigt.Parti pris logique, esthétique, moral."

Je repose la question: qu'est-ce que je suis même en train de lire

qu'est-ce que je suis même en train de lire