Ukraine Soldiers Who told Russian Warship ‘Go F*ck Yourself’ Honoured with Postage Stamp. Sketch by artist Boris Groh.

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.Albert Camus, Myth of Sisyphus

A Coat by William Butler Yeats, from Responsibilities (1914) I made my song a coatCovered with embroideriesOut of old mythologiesFrom heel to throat;But the fools…

Lists of phrases from Finnegans Wake that I snatched out of : A Tour of The Darkling Plain THE FINNEGANS WAKE LETTERS OF THORNTON WILDER…

Fundamental question of philosophy, to live or not. What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying — To run…

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan period and one of its greatest artistic exponents.[1] Considered the…

…mentioned in a review of Monsaingeon’s book by Edward Rothstein, the former culture critic-at-large for The New York Times, “Allegro con Plastic Lobster(:)” “Richter was…

FAB A LOT has fallen in love with this piece by Anna Maria Maiolino from her In and Out series. Yarn that tumbles out of the…

Theoretical Perspectives in Architectural History and Criticism  by Jennifer Bloom Found this book in a bin at Museum of Modern Art book store, when they…

First published 1873. Available archive.org. An etymological dictionary of the French language crowned by the French Academy.

Slavoj Zizek talking up Beckett & Lacan: “If there ever was a kenotic writer, the writer of the utter self-emptying of subjectivity, of its reduction…

Beckett’s Art of Mismaking by Leland de la Durantaye. This is a wonderful book. Highly recommend. A few quotes from Introduction — “It has become…

Night Table. Every Night. In the French.

Boatmans call. First line of song into my arms. Dont believe in intervening god. Wish at times I was more easily intervened — cud lit…

Links to his books. In order of publication. I read one of his books way back when and he had a profound influence on me. And nowadays I aim to read more…

PAULO ZELLINI Compares line where divine meets the sublime and language of the counting heads – as coextensive with history of math, which it is.…

Maya C. Poppa introduced me to Burnside. I found a copy of his famous poem, here. Black Cat Bone by John Burnside, published by Graywolf…

Agua Viva. Ex-lover to whom she must explain. And para after para gushes out after thresholds where language goes beyond the simple or complex, beyond…

SAM BECKETT, in his book Comment C’est, circles language La Boue (means mud in FR, nostalgia de la boue). He flushes and loops through an exquisite…

This is a fun read. My take his phrases, his phrases are FAB ULOT. Encourage anyone who loves lit phrase raise, to read. Series of…

Magnolia Pictures Presents CROCK OF GOLD A Few Rounds with Shane MacGown Starting December 5 … Assets to Share Where to Watch at Home What…

Dagda, comes from proto celtic word dago-s for “good”. A fertility monster with bottomless cauldron who spawned at least six and was known as a trickster…

Dante and Beethoven. If you cant beat em join em. But what does that mean. Shell shocked. Again. Hell is paved in best intensions etc.…

The danger is in the neatness of identifications. The conception of Philosophy and Philology as a pair of blackface minstrels out of the Teatro dei Piccoli is soothing, like the contemplation of a carefully folded ham-sandwich.

Luminous quotes from 007 — “Dread grief trails bright phantoms … Are ideas [themselves] essentially… Stun… imaginations reawakening calamity. Their impossible and ghostly hands ……

Camus mentions density Ran across in Camus a discussion that includes observations on density, on the notion of thoughts or a visual modality being dense.…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0YbXqDm0 Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson Come on, dance, jump on itIf you sexy then flaunt itIf you freaky then own itDon’t brag about it,…

INTERVIEW E. M. Cioran & Jason Weiss https://www.itinerariesofahummingbird.com/e-m-cioran.html Portions of this interview were first published in the Los Angeles Times (October 5, 1984); the entire text appeared…

In process of translating Emil Cioran’s journals from French to English. Original French is included underneath each entry. In this post are entries for year…

Presently reading, and starting to take some notes. The Trouble with Being Born Time was becoming unstuck from being. Carried away by irresistible desire to…

Russell Sbriglia’s introduction to Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Žižek offers a great explanation of Zizek’s work meanwhile…

“…desperate over-egged metaphors and lunatic, pencil-snapping, last-ditch attempts at something, my God, anything – you  have learned to hold fast Stealing triggers something metamorphic — He said, describing the Creative…

Lou Reed studied Finnegans Wake with Delmore Schwartz >> Oh thats lovely. “We gathered around you as you read Finnegans Wake. So hilarious but impenetrable without…

5000 words embedded in frequent french phrasing with clever translations. @word 4700. Almost done. LOVING IT. Paris in June, here we come.

After reading just three chapters, could read titles for Philosophy Books/Articles and tell apart parts of sentences and match up meaning to words.

In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857 By Christina Rosetti A hundred, a thousand to one; even so;Not a hope in the world…

“Mark Twain” (meaning “Mark number two”) was a Mississippi River term: the second mark on the line that measured depth signified two fathoms, or twelve…

Phrase hunting with The William. A collection of phrases from the Shakespeare Lexicon. Am up to letter C reading it. A Complete Dictionary of All…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM Feel good song.

Man of La Mancha was the first play I ever saw. I cried when quixote sick and died from returning to “senses.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onQJZ-gzwsc

Josefina Ayerza with Slavoj Zizek from Flash Art on Lacon.com “The entire satisfaction, the jouissance is that you do not know and will never know who the other…

Its a math function, PIECEWISE, this is what I found from Wiki: A piecewise-defined function (also called a piecewise function or a hybrid function) is a function that itself is defined by…

Let’s look up and walk上を向いて 歩こう Don’t let the tears fall涙が こぼれないように I remember a spring day, a lonely night思い出す春の日 一人ぽっちの夜 Let’s look up and…

From Wikipedia. Essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in June 1511. Inspired by previous works of the Italian humanist Faustino Perisauli De Triumpho Stultitiae,…

Rereading the Tractucus Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Available from Gutenberg Archive. First time read Wittgensteins Tractatus I loved it. I tend to read philosophy as a part…

The Red Hand Files Home Page Latest on Top 318 How do you manage to balance your creative life with your family commitments? I’ve been…

Read almost everything by GEORGES BATAILLE on beauty, sex & death. He wrote novels & philosophy. This is his master work. Holding French against English…

Two books had super heavy influence on me very early on. Ezra Pounds translation of Remy du Gormant’s The Natural Philosophy of Love. A late…

Marcel Proust’s short stories, Les Plaisirs and Les Jours. The Pleasure of My Days – In which details a heart’s merciless compulsion for whats missing…

Letter to Ted Rejection letter from The New Yorker Sylvia drew

Jots on Readings mostly in Philosophy

In Pronoun Shifters Working Title fiction am editing at moment — find myself stealing “permission” to pursue limpid (clear and bright) phrasing from Nick Cave…

T.S.ELIOT “The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes, Licked its tongue into…

After setting fire to her room, Lucia Joyce was sent to Zurich to be psychoanalyzed by Jung. She became Jung’s patient in 1934. Jung said…

I really liked Lulu In Hollywood by Louise Brooks. Working in Hollywood, and on dancing stages, travelled with Ziegfeld. Its an honest book. Bitter, its…

The author of Frankenstein always saw love and death as connected. She visited the cemetery to commune with her dead mother. And with her lover. From jstor.org…

My Huckleberry Friends. https://youtu.be/MKnZ174_kWk?si=voGbtB7mk0OTQpwr https://youtu.be/MKnZ174_kWk?si=voGbtB7mk0OTQpwr

“I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?…

Falling asleep with Finnegans Wake. Gave me hallucinations still cherish. Think about this book a lot. Like a fish, the tide and blotting paper. Aquatic…

Swan et le Monde.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEfRzws5ajk Thank you for posting. With Subtitles! Poems and aphorisms from Paris Catacombs: Thank you for Posting these with translations : https://awandererabroad.wordpress.com/2017/04/15/beyond-the-grave-translations-from-the-paris-catacombs/

List snarfed from OPEN CULTURE: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse The Glass Bead Game by Hermann…

Der Pessimismus in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart Pessimism Past and Present Olga Plümacher (1839–1895) published a book entitled Der Pessimismus in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart in 1884. It was…

By Richard Zenith About half way thru. Very nicely done. INTRODUCTION Pessoa described himself as a “secret orchestra.” Rimbaud as a piece of wood transformed…

Commentary on Philosophy section is called Letters to Epididymus (which is a perversion of epididymis — a male hormonal gland). As emerges also a lot…

An Index to Nick Cave’s The Red Hand Files.

O mon Bien ! O mon Beau ! Fanfare atroce où je ne trébuche point ! Chevalet féerique ! Hourra pour l’oeuvre inouïe et pour le corps merveilleux, pour…

Soul, wilt thou toss again? By just such a hazard Hundreds have lost, indeed…

Samuel Beckett: avant-garde dramatist, brooding Nobel Prize winner, and…gritty television detective! https://youtu.be/SKx11LGIf8M Beckett — a Quinn Martin Production

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Watt will not abate one jot but of what of the coming to of the being at of the going from Knott’s habitat

By Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon, Cambridge University Press. Fully examines Beckett’s reading practice, and the way he used his reading in his writing.…

The Maya Quote “It is Mâyâ, the veil of deception, which blinds the eyes of mortals, and makes them behold a world of which they…

Quotes from Shakespeares, w.r.t. use of and being influenced by Math in his era, that ends up in poetics. THANK YOU ROB. This is something…

I myself am hell; nobody’s here— only skunks, that search in the moonlight for a bite to eat…

Ugly, Creepy, Disgusting, and Other Modes of Abjection by Jela Krečič & Slavoj Žižek — Ugly as an aesthetic category. Gradual abandonment Unity. Das negativschone,…

TheoryReader 1 Against the Digital Heresy In the Larry King debate between a rabbi, a Catholic priest and a Southern Baptist, broadcast in March 2000,…

The Ticklish SubjectThe Absent Centre of Political Ontology by Slavoj Žižek Intro: A Spectre is Haunting Heideggerian proponent of the thought of Being who stresses the…

According to the popular (mis)conception of psychoanalysis, sex (sexual relationship) serves as the reference of all our activities: everything we do and feel has an…

Once let be drawn — to what peers out from side! the run off generally runs for me into something of a looming wild eyed…

Silliness asserts itself, mucks it up??? and yet — a cleansing agent ??? How can it be both. Question of a Practical Nature/Issue am “seriously”…

Sunil Ramchandani. Fabulous designer and author of SUNIL STYLES  fashion blog featuring Sunil’s famous illustrations. Seasonal trend reports are must-read to his devoted following. A renowned…

Found reference to Open Culture’s reference to “Hear Sylvia Plath Read 18 Poems From Her Final Collection, Ariel, in 1962 Recording” at Warren Ellis Experience. Thank…

by Slavoj Žižek (Author), F.W.J. von Schelling (Author), Judith Norman (Translator) First published by University of Michigan in 1997. The Abyss of Freedom — Quotes are in Italic the crucial point…

The Art of Dressing Curves is a gorgeous book that only SUSAN MOSES could write. Acclaimed stylist for the curvy side of life. No other…

By Emily Dickinson One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted — One need not be a House — The Brain has Corridors…

“I came,” she said, “hoping you could talk me out of a fantasy.” “Cherish it,” cried Hilarius, fiercely. “What else do any of you have?…

Written in the 1590s, The Faerie Queene is a Christian allegory (in which Catholicism is the enemy and the Church of England in need of protecting) featuring…

Do it your own way. No matter what that is…

Delmore Schwartz was a gift, to me. Back when I knew how to accept them. A gentle man gave me one of his poetry books,…

The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics (Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory) by Nathan Brown, book about materials science and Charlie Olson’s (I, Maximus of…

Victorian birthday book + Room for Notes BASED ON quotations from Nick Cave for each day of the year. The Little Birthday Book Created and…

The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave is especially essential to my collection. Helps me wake up beyond revelations of ornery terrors: to behold with…

Suzy Cave’s The Vampire’s Wife. Am indebted to her approach to beauty that plumbs artistic and dramatic strains across the universe, however curious, transgressive, or…

Currently Reading. Love Rimbaud’s switches and tumbles. How he combs and breaks with traditional narrative assembly, roams thoughts language wise willing, visualizes narrative meta, into…

It matters immensely.the slightest sound matters.the most momentary rhythm matters.you can do as you please,yet everything matters.Wallace Stevens

Development of communication & gesture by pre-eminent expert in field, Prof. Emeritus DAVID MCNEILL. Author of 11 books on language, gesture, speech and so on.…

Standing up for myself, expressing gratitude and strength — all about eve creations. Yall in strange wonderful way give us ins and give us outs.…

Truman and Harper at Yaddo. I dream of going to Yaddo. I dream of going to Yaddo for a month and writing there and conferring…

THE FUTURE Russell Sbriglia (Assistant Professor of English at Seton Hall University) hosts a discussion with Cornel West and Slavoj Žižek on “The Future of…