January 2012
8 posts
“To put this as crisply as I can, the study of the classics is the study of what...”
– Mary Beard, Do the Classics Have a Future?
“Boo’ful,” she said, “life could be so...”
– Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
“Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.”
– Cicero (via nathanielstuart)
December 2011
2 posts
“We shall have to adapt ourselves to the shadowy screen and to the cold machine....”
– Leo Tolstoy, from a letter to a friend on the advent of cinema (via confusionis)
November 2011
11 posts
“Ainsi la vie disparaît, se transformant en un rien. L’automatisation avale...”
– Victor Chklovski (Eng. Viktor Shklovsky):
“L’art comme procédé” (Rus. Искусство как прием)
Tr. Tzvetan Todorov
“From head to foot I became colder than snow,
And sweat like watery dew dripped...”
– Theocritus, Idyll 2
tr. Anthony Verity
“It is the irony of revolutions that they engender a power all the more absolute...”
– Jacques Lacan “Symbol and Languages”
cf. Everyone’s complaints about Occupy. Just something to think about.
“And now you stand like a lonely tree
open to all the winds and birds
And now...”
– Anna Kamienska, from “On a Sonnet by Leah Goldberg” in Astonishments, trans. Curzon and Drabik (via proustitute)
October 2011
6 posts
“The pleasure of the text is just that: claim lodged against the separation of...”
– Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text
September 2011
5 posts
“And verily, if life had no sense and I had to choose nonsense, then I too should...”
– Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Tr. Walter Kaufmann
(in response to the previous)
“Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.”
– Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Tr. Walter Kaufmann
9 tags
August 2011
1 post
2 tags
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
3 posts
May 2011
2 posts
April 2011
2 posts
“Call it not love, for Love to heaven is fled,
Since sweating Lust on earth...”
– Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis
March 2011
3 posts
February 2011
10 posts
