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‘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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Auguste Brachet

Got off of archive.org. Considered historically important French language book by Etymologtist Auguste Brachet. Its pretty darn good – Cours complet d’histoire de…
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,…
Bedside Reading

Night Table. Every Night. In the French.
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,…
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…
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…
Crock of Gold

Magnolia Pictures Presents CROCK OF GOLD A Few Rounds with Shane MacGown Starting December 5 …
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…
Dont Believe Me Just Watch

Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson Come on, dance, jump on itIf you sexy then flaunt itIf you freaky then own itDon’t brag…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Happy by Pharrell Williams

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.”
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…
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…
L’Experience Interieure

Read almost everything by GEORGES BATAILLE on beauty, sex & death. He wrote novels & philosophy. This is his master work. Holding…
Les Fleurs Pensée sur l’Amour

Two books had super heavy influence on me very early on. Ezra Pounds translation of Remy du Gormant’s The Natural Philosophy of…
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…
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…
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…
McSweeneys Top 50

A gentle littering of MOST-READ McSWEENEY’S INTERNET TENDENCY ARTICLES OF ALL-TIME…
Mercer & Mancini

My Huckleberry Friends.
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…
Page from Prousts Notebook

Swan et le Monde.
Paris Catacombs Websites

Thank you for posting. With Subtitles!
Patti Smith’s List of Favorite Books

List snarfed from OPEN CULTURE:
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…
Politics of Scene

By Paul Kottman, Sanford University Press. The brilliance and originality of this book consists specifically in its radical recasting of the metaphorical,…
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…
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! 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…
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…
Skunk Hour

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

By Emily Dickinson One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted — One need not be a House — The…
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…
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…
The Force Be with Vous

Do it your own way. No matter what that is…
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…
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…
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:…
The Vampire’s Wife: Stuff

Suzy Cave’s The Vampire’s Wife. Am indebted to her approach to beauty that plumbs artistic and dramatic strains across the universe, however…
This Much Know to be True

Official trailer for THIS MUCH I KNOW TO BE TRUE – in cinemas worldwide on Wednesday 11 May. https://www.thismuchiknowtobetrue.com Directed by Andrew…
Time of the Assassins by Henry Miller

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

Pessimism Past and Present Olga Plümacher (1839–1895) published a book entitled Der Pessimismus in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart in 1884. It was an influential book:…
Vol. 1 Letters of Sylvia Plath 1940-56
Why We Gesture

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

Truman and Harper at Yaddo. I dream of going to Yaddo. I dream of going to Yaddo for a month and writing…
Zizek + West (with Sbriglia)

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