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Graffiti (a text of Philippe Delerm translated by Vadim Bystritski) — Before and After Francis Ponge

Previously, graffiti’s connotations were always negative — the unwanted texts in inappropriate places: obscenities in public bathrooms, dirty little words claiming to reveal something and shamelessly posing as audacious, or simply as a desire to disfigure a wall. Then suddenly an art was born, an art of sublimated solitude, Graf, selected by random mutation of […]

Graffiti (a text of Philippe Delerm translated by Vadim Bystritski) — Before and After Francis Ponge
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London Bridge (a text of Paul Valéry translated by Vadim Bystritski) — Before and After Francis Ponge

Some time ago, while I was crossing the London Bridge, I stopped to watch what I like best — rich, heavy and complex water, covered by mother-of-pearl fabric, blurred by the clouds of mud, bewilderingly busy with a great number of vessels, whose white steam, moving spinnakers, all bizzare maneuvers that ballance bales and crates, […]

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