July 2012
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Someone should calculate all the things that have not been accomplished for the...
– Alberto Savinio, “Psyche”.
(Translation of the Rimbaud citation: Idle youth / Enslaved to everything / By being too sensitive / I have wasted my life.)
Savinio, born Andrea Alberto de Chirco, was the younger brother of that other excellent de Chirco, and a fantastic painter and writer...
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Spreading messages dilutes them. Even understanding them is a compromise. The...
– Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet, 2012.
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He soaked completely in artificially purulent wounds, tried to lose himself in...
– Joyce Mansour, “Dolman the Malefic”, from Ca, 1970.
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You must have experienced the sensation of stepping forward in the darkness,...
– Jean Ferry, “Letter to an Unknown Person”. Originally published in Le mechanicien et autres contes, 1951.
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