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Words are found responsible
all you can do is choose them
or choose to remain silent (excerpt) / Adrienne Rich
Proust and gratitude.

You and I spend a lot of time together. We watch and listen and learn. We change together.

On Muses and Time.
April 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I would like
in a faraway language
to tell you what I don’t
understand

...

You ask yourself what is
a place of your own
if you must fade yourself out

Minus One / Samira Negrouche ; Translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker
April 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"What is most personal is most general."
On Becoming a Person / Carl Rogers

What is this? Our fifth session? Should I say it out loud? Yeah, I should. You can't heal something unless you're brave enough to say it out loud. I'm scared though. I'm scared to say it. Which is why I have to.
April 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
"By combining two conversations that occur at different times, he creates the illusion of a flashback"

Vargas Llosa Among the Postmodernists / M.Keith Booker
April 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wrestling with the Paradox of Tolerance

Possibly Phobos and Ares in Ares's chariot (510-530 BCE)
April 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
The Open Society and Its Enemies / Karl R. Popper

Theory of Falsification
April 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This was the final dumping ground. He thought of Janvier's "Sargasso Sea." Just as that imaginary body of water was a history of civilization in the form of a marine junkyard, the studio lot was one in the form of a dream dump. A Sargasso of the imagination! Day of the Locust / Nathanael West
April 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Endurance Art: There is no new experience in life Something may happen to u that u think has never happened before that u think is brand new, but u are mistaken U have only to see or smell or hear or feel a certain something and u will discover that this experience u thought was new has happened b 4
April 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Tenderness and rot
share a border.
And rot is an
aggressive neighbor
whose iridescence
keeps creeping over

No lessons
can be drawn
from this however

One is not
two countries.
One is not meat
corrupting

It is important
to stay sweet
and loving

Kay Ryan
April 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
Possession / A. S. Byatt
April 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I wish I could capture this world with my words
And send them to you
So we can sit together once more, As the cicadas sing.

Song of Cicadas (excerpt) / Anne Harrison
April 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM