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Katia N
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Schlegel:
‘A fragment, like a miniature work of art, has to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world and complete in itself like a porcupine.’
— Feb 01, 2026 10:02AM
‘A fragment, like a miniature work of art, has to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world and complete in itself like a porcupine.’
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Katia N
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As the art critic Martin Herbert once said to me, ‘I don’t go looking for “ideas about photography” in that book; I read it for a certain kind of vulnerability.’ It’s that vulnerability that I value in Camera Lucida now, in Barthes’s writing in general, and in most or even all of the essayists I admire – no, love.
— Jan 23, 2026 02:30PM
Katia N
is 14% done
Nothing seems easier, says Perec, than making (or is it writing?) a list; but it is really a complex undertaking. You are bound to forget something, and you will be tempted to give up, or let the thing tail off, and write ‘etc’ – ‘but the whole point of an inventory is not to write etc.’
— Jan 21, 2026 12:57PM
Katia N
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‘..ability in an essay is multiplicity, infinite fracture, the intercrossing of opposed forces establishing any number of opposed centres of stillness’
It is not Brian though, but him quoting William Carlos Williams.
— Jan 21, 2026 12:45AM
It is not Brian though, but him quoting William Carlos Williams.
