‘Go F*ck Yourself’ Postage Stamp
Ukraine Soldiers Who told Russian Warship ‘Go F*ck Yourself’ Honoured with Postage Stamp. Sketch by artist Boris Groh.
“one must imagine sisyphus happy”
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.Albert Camus, Myth of Sisyphus
A Coat by William Butler Yeats
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…
A Tour of the Darkling Plain
Lists of phrases from Finnegans Wake that I snatched out of : A Tour of The Darkling Plain THE FINNEGANS WAKE LETTERS OF THORNTON WILDER…
Albert Camus Myth of Sisyphus
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 and His Complete Works
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…
Allegro Con Plastic Lobster
…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…
Anna Maria Maiolino
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…
Architecture and the Text: The (S)crypts of Joyce and Piranesi
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…
Arthur Rimbaud Les Illuminations
See English Translations, Below Arthur RIMBAUD (1854-1891), link to orignal French: LES ILLUMINATIONS Le parti pris de cette mise en ligne des Illuminations de Rimbaud…
Auguste Brachet
First published 1873.
Available archive.org.
An etymological dictionary of the French language crowned by the French Academy.
Beckett and Cioran, Elements in Beckett Studies
Beckett and Cioran By Steven Matthews Elements in Beckett Studies Cambridge University Press, 2024 Really enjoying this book. Hits on a lot of topics I…
Beckett with Lacan by Slavoj Zizek
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
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…
Beckett’s Whoroscope Along with His Footnotes on it
See Hear: https://www.babelmatrix.org/works/en/Beckett%2C_Samuel-1906/Whoroscope 2 SECTIONS copied out of 13 What’s that?An egg?By the brother Boot it stinks fresh.Give it to Gillot Galileo how are youand…
Bedside Reading
Night Table. Every Night. In the French.
Belief in the Intervening?
Boatmans call. First line of song into my arms. Dont believe in intervening god. Wish at times I was more easily intervened — cud lit…
Ben Okri: Links to Books
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…
Brief History of Infinity
PAULO ZELLINI Compares line where divine meets the sublime and language of the counting heads – as coextensive with history of math, which it is.…
Burnside’s The Fair Chase
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…
Clarice Lispector
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…
Comment C’est
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…
Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk
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…
Crock of Gold
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
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 + Beethovens: Death Masks
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.…
DANTE… BRUNO… VICO… JOYCE BY SAMUEL BECKETT
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.
Death and The Dreamer
Luminous quotes from 007 — “Dread grief trails bright phantoms … Are ideas [themselves] essentially… Stun… imaginations reawakening calamity. Their impossible and ghostly hands ……
Discussing Density
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.…
Dont Believe Me Just Watch
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,…
E.M. Cioran Some Stuff
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…
Emil Cioran Notebooks in English
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…
Emile Cioran
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…
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Zizek
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…
Eye and Sea
“…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…
Finnegans Wake with Delmore
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…
Frequency Dictionary of French
5000 words embedded in frequent french phrasing with clever translations. @word 4700. Almost done. LOVING IT. Paris in June, here we come.
German Grammar
After reading just three chapters, could read titles for Philosophy Books/Articles and tell apart parts of sentences and match up meaning to words.
Had to do at least one Rosetti
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…
Half twain! Quarter twain! M-a-r-k twain!
“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…
Happy (en)Trails w/ Fodder Shakespeare
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…
Happy by Pharrell Williams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM Feel good song.
Hi am i don kixs ho tay la man of la muncha — my festiny calls hunt i must o bay —
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
Hidden Prohibitions & the Pleasure Principle
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…
Hybrid Functions: Piecewise
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…
I Look Up As I Walk
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…
In Praise of Folly
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,…
In re Cutty Sarcus: on the Dog Latin in Wittgensteins Tractucus
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…
Index for Nick Cave’s The Red Hand Files
The Red Hand Files Home Page Latest on Top 362 40 SHORTS. Can we please have some of your irreverent question answering? 361 What are…
Johnny Depp & Immelda May record Haunted by Shane MacGowan
Johnny Depp and Imelda May collaborated on a new version of the late Shane MacGowan and Sinéad O’Connor’s 1995 duet Haunted.
Kristala RPG Video Game from Astral Clock Studios
Kristala is a Dark Fantasy Feline Action RPG video game for PC and console put out by my niece’s Video Game company, Astral Clocktower Studios Player…
L’Experience Interieure
Read almost everything by GEORGES BATAILLE on beauty, sex & death. He wrote novels & philosophy. This is his master work. Holding French against English…
Les Fleurs Pensée sur l’Amour + In Praise of Folly
Link to: Ezra Pounds translation of Remy du Gormant’s The Natural Philosophy of Love. A late 1800’s tract about sexual instincts in animals. And translated…
Les Plaisirs et Les Jours
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…
Letters of Sylvia Plath 1940-56 Vol. 1
Letter to Ted Rejection letter from The New Yorker Sylvia drew
Letters to Epididymus
Jots on Readings mostly in Philosophy
Limpid and Luminous
In Pronoun Shifters Working Title fiction am editing at moment — find myself stealing “permission” to pursue limpid (clear and bright) phrasing from Nick Cave…
Love song of Prufrock
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…
Lucia Joyce
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…
Lulu in Hollywood
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…
Mary Shelley’s Obsession with the Cemetery
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…
Mercer & Mancini
My Huckleberry Friends.
More Camus
“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?…
Mort à credit by Louis-Ferdinand Cèline
There is a new English translation called Death on Credit. Previous translations were called, Death on the Installment Plan. Was able to track down link…
My I Ching
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…
Notes on Sam Beckett’s Philosophy Notes
Note-snatching Samuel Beckett’s ‘Philosophy Notes’. Reading and taking notes on. Over on Substack. Edited by Steven Matthews and Matthew Feldman Oxford University Press, Published: 15…
Page from Prousts Notebook
Swan et le Monde.
Paris Catacombs Websites
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/
Patti Smith’s List of Favorite Books
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…
Pessimism Past and Present by Olga Plümacher
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…
Pessoa: A Biography
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…
Philosophy Books Making Commentary
Commentary on Philosophy section is called Letters to Epididymus (which is a perversion of epididymis — a male hormonal gland). As emerges also a lot…
Red Hand Files Index
An Index to Nick Cave’s The Red Hand Files.
Rimbaud’s Illuminations XI: Matinée d’Ivresse
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…
Rouge et Noir
Soul, wilt thou toss again?
By just such a hazard
Hundreds have lost, indeed…
Sam Beckett is Beckett
Samuel Beckett: avant-garde dramatist, brooding Nobel Prize winner, and…gritty television detective! https://youtu.be/SKx11LGIf8M Beckett — a Quinn Martin Production
Sammy Slabbinck
Gotta Love Sammy!
Samuel Beckett Reads Watt
Watt will not
abate one jot
but of what
of the coming to
of the being at
of the going from
Knott’s habitat
Samuel Beckett’s Library
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.…
Schopenhauer, The World As Will And Idea
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…
Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times, by Rob Castaway
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…
Skunk Hour
I myself am hell;
nobody’s here—
only skunks, that search
in the moonlight for a bite to eat…
Slavoj Žižek & Jela Krečič Modes of Abjection
Ugly, Creepy, Disgusting, and Other Modes of Abjection by Jela Krečič & Slavoj Žižek — Ugly as an aesthetic category. Gradual abandonment Unity. Das negativschone,…
SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK Love Without Mercy
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,…
Slavoj Žižek Ticklish Subject
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…
SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK: Notes Towards an Hegelian System of Sexuality
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…
Stop Fighting It
Once let be drawn — to what peers out from side! the run off generally runs for me into something of a looming wild eyed…
Stupid Monkey
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 the wonderful
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…
Sylvia Plath Reading Poems from Ariel
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…
The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World
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
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…
The Brain has Corridors…
By Emily Dickinson One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted—One need not be a House—The Brain has Corridors—surpassingMaterial Place—Far safer, of a Midnight MeetingExternal…
The Crying of Lot 49
“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?…
The Faerie Queene
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…
The Force Be with Vous
Do it your own way. No matter what that is…
The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me by Delmore Schwartz
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
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…
The Little Birthday Book
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
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…
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