petrol isn't even that expensive compared to nicer drinks like orange juice or beer
Beckett's "Imagination Dead Imagine" as rendered by The Salvage press.
O avalanche, will you take me with you when you fall?
- Baudelaire, “The longing for nothingness”
I stepped into an avalanche and it covered up my soul
- Leonard Cohen
Let us live and love,
not listening to old men's talk.
Suns will rise and set
long after our little light
has gone away to darkness.
- Catullus, 5 (t. by Whyte)
Was having trouble deciding on a book after My Tender Matador; needed something just as evocative. Chose to start a re-read Moby-Dick—somehow, so far, even better than I remembered. Taking it slow when every sentence is so rich.
Richard Deutch
Americans love to respect their soldiers so let me make this clear: their military is an imperialist bully-squad, deployed worldwide to remind various parts of the world of America's military might, and always ready to kill whichever non-white people are in the current administration's crosshairs.
The situation in my house right now
"I have not read 'Ulysses', but believe that the principle of the stream-of-consciousness method is a valuable one—destined to influence fiction in the future. However, I doubt its value as an exclusive method of narration."
—H. P. Lovecraft to L. M. White, 31 May 1935, LJS 356
