Yoon Kim
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The air had so much excessive charm that the man averted his eyes.”
— Clarice Lispector, The Apple in the Dark, trans. Benjamin Moser
— Clarice Lispector, The Apple in the Dark, trans. Benjamin Moser
February 16, 2026 at 3:22 AM
The air had so much excessive charm that the man averted his eyes.”
— Clarice Lispector, The Apple in the Dark, trans. Benjamin Moser
— Clarice Lispector, The Apple in the Dark, trans. Benjamin Moser
Here’s another translation:
“The tree that he saw was standing. In the beauty of silence, the tree. That’s how the man deeply saw. He looked straight at the carefulness with which the beauty of the tree was useless. Three hundred thousand leaves were shaking on the tranquil tree. [+]
“The tree that he saw was standing. In the beauty of silence, the tree. That’s how the man deeply saw. He looked straight at the carefulness with which the beauty of the tree was useless. Three hundred thousand leaves were shaking on the tranquil tree. [+]
February 16, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Here’s another translation:
“The tree that he saw was standing. In the beauty of silence, the tree. That’s how the man deeply saw. He looked straight at the carefulness with which the beauty of the tree was useless. Three hundred thousand leaves were shaking on the tranquil tree. [+]
“The tree that he saw was standing. In the beauty of silence, the tree. That’s how the man deeply saw. He looked straight at the carefulness with which the beauty of the tree was useless. Three hundred thousand leaves were shaking on the tranquil tree. [+]
Got curious, so here’s Moser:
“The goodness of an act is that it goes beyond us.”
(Lispector, The 🍏 in the Dark)
“The goodness of an act is that it goes beyond us.”
(Lispector, The 🍏 in the Dark)
February 16, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Got curious, so here’s Moser:
“The goodness of an act is that it goes beyond us.”
(Lispector, The 🍏 in the Dark)
“The goodness of an act is that it goes beyond us.”
(Lispector, The 🍏 in the Dark)
“I’ll call my account *Extinction*… because in it I intend to extinguish everything: everything I record will be extinguished. My whole family and their life and times will be extinguished…”
— Bernhard, Extinction (tr. David McLintock)
— Bernhard, Extinction (tr. David McLintock)
February 11, 2026 at 8:01 PM
“I’ll call my account *Extinction*… because in it I intend to extinguish everything: everything I record will be extinguished. My whole family and their life and times will be extinguished…”
— Bernhard, Extinction (tr. David McLintock)
— Bernhard, Extinction (tr. David McLintock)
“The word has meaning only if it rids us of the object it names; it must spare us its presence or ‘concrete reminder.’ In authentic language, speech has a function that is not only representative but also destructive.”
— Blanchot, “The Myth of Mallarmé” (tr. Charlotte Mandell)
— Blanchot, “The Myth of Mallarmé” (tr. Charlotte Mandell)
February 11, 2026 at 8:01 PM
“The word has meaning only if it rids us of the object it names; it must spare us its presence or ‘concrete reminder.’ In authentic language, speech has a function that is not only representative but also destructive.”
— Blanchot, “The Myth of Mallarmé” (tr. Charlotte Mandell)
— Blanchot, “The Myth of Mallarmé” (tr. Charlotte Mandell)