In order to write I must place myself into the void. In this void is where I exist intuitively. But it’s a terribly dangerous void: it’s where I wring out blood. I’m a writer who fears the snares of words: the words I say hide others—which? maybe I’ll say them. Writing is a stone cast […]
Snowy — Flaneur
“The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.” — Art of Quotation
“The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.” Billy Collins, poet, writing
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Fernando Pessoa – Pour être grand, sois entier… — BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD
Pour être grand, sois entier : rien En toi n’exagère ou n’exclus. Sois tout en chaque chose. Mets tout ce que tu es Dans le plus petit de tes actes. Ainsi en chaque lac brille la lune entière Pour la raison qu’elle vit haut. * Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nada Para ser grande, sê […]
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[107] Persona Of A Writer — Smoke words every day.
All of our thoughts, ideas, ideologies and viewpoints are not real or at least, not our own. All of these are things that sound admirable/respectable. These are things that we steal from films, books and other personalities to form our own. Just because we think we understand these ideas and have no logical argument against […]
welcome to retrograd — .documenting.the.obvious
as the tradition of this blog has it here are some of my favourite pictures from 2017. this time they come from a variety of places like zürich, paris, den haag, cologne, texel, munich, venice, kassel, duisburg and last and definitely not least hong kong. but most of them are of course from good old […]
Play in Paris — Pat Callahan Photography
From a street corner card game to a door used as a football goal, everyday Parisians having fun!
The Flâneur: A Film about Walter Benjamin
Shot on location in Paris by Danish film Director Torben Skjødt Jensen, this highly atmospheric and engaging film as written and narrated by Ulf Peter Hallberg, provides an overview of Walter Benjamin’s life and work as well as some fabulous images of the Paris arcades.
Originally posted on YouTube by Jo Takahashi
“How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity” — Art of Quotation
“How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.”
–William S. Burroughs, Writer
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