I spent long moments looking. The sky was stretched taut between cliff edges, it was narrowed and lowered, that was the strange thing, the sky right there, scale the rocks and you can touch it. I started walking again and came to the end of the tight passage and into an open space choked at [...]
I keep seeing the words. Heat, space, stillness, distance. They’ve become visual states of mind. I’m not sure what that means. I keep seeing figures in isolation, I see past physical dimension into the feelings that these words engender, feelings that deepen over time. That’s the other word, time.
I drove and looked. He stayed at [...]
Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer. - Mark Z. Danielewski
“Reading novels - serious novels, anyhow - is an experience limited to a very small percentage of the so-called enlightened public. Increasingly, it’s going to be a pursuit for those who seek unusual experiences, moral fetishists perhaps, people of heightened imagination, the troubled pursuers of the ambiguous self.” Jerzy Kosinski
Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, of mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is a human invention, including the idea that it isn’t a human invention. The world has no existence whatsoever outside the human imagination. It’s all a ghost, and in [...]
“Between story and truth”
Jean-Luc Nancy
One day, the gods retreated. On their own, they retreated from their divinity, that is to say, from their presence. What remains of their presence is what remains of all presence when it absents itself: what remains is what one can say about it. What can be said about it is [...]
I bring you life-with. It’s more than love. Love’s a hard, sad, dirty word, a cold word, an old word. It says too much and it promises too little. I bring you something much bigger than love. If you’re alive, you’re alive. If you’re alive-with, then you know the other life is there too—both of [...]
[Anamorphosis] is a philosophy of false reality, or, more precisely, a poetics of alternative realities. An anamorphic image posits the coded presence of an almost unimaginable reality that momentarily obtrudes on ideologically constituted reality, thereby rendering it arbitrary, ontologically inconsistent [. . .] The effect of anamorphosis, philosophically speaking, is therefore that of extreme relativisation. [...]
Pt. I, Ch. 2, “L.A. Noir and Forgetting”
“there are noir and apocalyptic scenarios that continually repeat in literature, film and the visual arts from Los Angeles. By the mid sixties, they take on an increasingly disengaged spirit, like a nightmare one watches through the windshield of a car” (81).
Pt. V, Ch. 12, “Suburban [...]
“—You is from hunger, Mr Bones”
Intense.
America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.
America two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956.
I can’t stand my own mind.
America when will we end the human war?
Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb
I don’t feel good don’t bother me.
I won’t write my poem till I’m in my right mind.
America when will you be [...]
Next he rang up his Aunt Reet, who lived down the boulevard on the other side of the dunes in a more suburban part of town with houses, yards, and trees, because of which it had become known as the Tree Section. A few years ago, after divorcing a lapsed Missouri Synod Lutheran with a [...]
I have several hundred acres of property in the desert. In the middle of the land is a house in which I live. Instead of having bare wasteland to look at, I have brought in several tons of wreckage. Twisted car bodies litter the barren expanse. Every piece of airline wreckage I can buy or [...]
Literature, by enabling us to imagine the world from another’s perspective, enables us also to grasp something of the other’s experience and to extend our moral engagement.
J. M. Coetzee
O Afryce mówi się, że to kontynent zapomniany. Oceania jest kontynentem niewidzialnym. Niewidzialnym, gdyż podróżnicy, którzy po raz pierwszy przybyli w tamte strony, nie dostrzegli go. A i dzisiaj jest jedynie miejscem tranzytu, bez znaczenia na arenie międzynardowej, poniekąd nie istnieje.
“Przygoda” to słowo, które trzeba ocalić. To słowo, któremu zabrano sens. Dziś jest okaleczone, [...]
CHAOSMOS.PL - Polska sztuka ezoteryczna XXI wieku
May 29, 2005
Commencement Address
Cornell University
President Jeffrey S. Lehman
May 29, 2005
Members of the Class of 2005, candidates for advanced degrees, families and friends of the graduates, Chairman Meinig and other members of the Board of Trustees, honored guests.
On behalf of my colleagues on the faculty, it is my privilege to welcome you to Schoellkopf Field for [...]
I want to reach the Western Lands - right in front of you, across the bubbling brook. It’s a frozen sewer. It’s known as the Duad, remember? All the filth and horror, fear, hate, disease and death of human history flows between you and Western Lands. Let it flow! My cat Fletch stretches behind me [...]
„Teraz, jak zawsze, czas biegnie tak szybko, że nie pora na ewolucje. Musimy dokonywać nieustannej wewnętrznej rewolucji, nieustannej kontestacji w sobie samych, w buncie przeciw swemu zaskorupieniu, w niezgodzie wobec zeskorupiałego świata. Nie pałacowe czy krwawe rewolucje mają być naszym dziełem, lecz totalna i nieprzerwana rewolucja w nas samych. Musimy prowadzić nieustanną guerillę z naszą [...]
The American is a nomad. A bastard son. A criminal wherever he goes. Cut loose in his own country to wander and wage battle. The parents are merely stand ins and those who raise the child for its life of brutality along the highways and streets of the city where it scrapes along, in search [...]
A little exchange in Polish on this mind-blowing graphic novel.
I ________ having been subjected to the Rite of Christian Baptism in infancy (before reaching an age of consent), hereby publicly revoke any implications of that Rite and renounce the Church that carried it out. In the name of human reason, I reject all its Creeds and all other such superstition in [...]