I write, I extend my hand; without my knowing it, this is already a prayer, I extend my hand to you so that you will exist because you do exist, beyond my fingers, your fingers, without my knowing it this is already a response, already I draw to my side the site for you, with […]
Langston Hughes — The Vale of Soul-Making
I would liken you To a night without stars Were it not for your eyes. I would liken you To a sleep without dreams Were it not for your songs. — Langston Hughes, “Quiet Girl,” The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (First Vintage Classic, 1995)
The simple joys of hand-writing — HeideBlog
I take a lot of crap about my note-taking. Constant scribbling is so central to my persona, in fact, that one colleague recently expressed concern during a meeting when I wasn’t taking notes. “I forgot my pen,” I shrugged. Here’s the thing: I have a terrible memory — so if I don’t write it down […]
In Memory: “If you are a writer, you have to be someone who can be on your own. You can sit in a room for eight hours, and…” — Art of Quotation
“If you are a writer, you have to be someone who can be on your own. You can sit in a room for eight hours, and at the end of it you will have done something.”
– Stephen Jeffreys, 1950-2018, British, playwright
Naked Cities Note [MN]: The Guardian’s Obituary for Stephen Jeffreys can be found at: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/sep/18/stephen-jeffreys-obituary
The Life and Influence of Walter Benjamin — RhysTranter.com
Ian Penman writes on the tragic life and enduring influence of the German literary critic …
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On Blaise Cendrars
‘I am a kind Brahman in reverse who contemplates himself in agitation’
– Blaise Cendrars in Monique Chefdor’s, Introduction. Blaise Cendrars: A «symphonie contrastante.»
Guy de Maupassant — The Vale of Soul-Making
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare. ― Guy de Maupassant
The Notebook – by Marcus D. Niski
Decay
Ruins
Detritus
The Mundane
The Moment
Ennui
Boredom
The Obvious
The Un-Noticed
The Notebook
[MN] 24 August 2018
Georges Perec – On Knowing the World
What can we know of the world? What quantity of space can our eyes hope to take in between our birth and our death? How many square centimeters of planet earth will the soles of our shoes have touched?
– Georges Perec in Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
William S. Burroughs – On The Third Mind
No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible force which may be likened to a third mind…
– William S. Burroughs on The Third Mind
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