February 2012
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“As our planet heats up and the Tropics spread, is it not possible that not only...”
– Michael Taussig - My Cocaine Museum effusionofbiopower
“I have already described the unnatural curiosity which had taken the place of my...”
– Edgar Allan Poe
Is it not better, to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, in The Mind on Fire, p 122
“In the thickets of language every creature is wild.”
– Ivan Vladislavić’s “Dictionary Birds”, The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories.
(towirr)
“The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way...”
– Werner Heisenberg
(via rememo)
“Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and...”
– Irving Layton
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“The world’s most difficult word to translate has been identified as...”
– BBC NEWS | Africa | Congo word ‘most untranslatable’
“Under the swish and the sweep,
mermaids on piano play the bottom line.”
– From Hourglass by Brad Frederiksen.
“Under white clouds, cielo di Pisa
out of all this beauty something must come”
– From Canto LXXXIV in The Pisan Cantos by Ezra Pound.
“While she might not have had bona fide purple eyes, as
anyone who saw Elizabeth...”
– Brow Beat : Elizabeth Taylor: Beautiful Mutant