February 2012
“I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have...”
– Edgar Allan Poe
“MAYAKOVSKY
1
My heart’s aflutter!
I am standing in the bath tub
crying....”
– Frank O’Hara - Meditations In An Emergency
“it’s been a long time since I talked about certain things. So I don’t know any...”
– Happy Death (La mort heureuse) - Albert Camus
“What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an...”
– Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (1882)
January 2012
“And it is this, I think, that makes Kafka’s wit inaccessible to children whom...”
– David Foster Wallace
December 2011
“Life is short,
And pleasures few,
And holed the ship,
And drowned the crew,...”
– Clive Barker (from the character Righteous Bandy in Abarat)
“The life of our body is only a constantly prevented dying, an ever postponed...”
– Schopenhauer The World as Will and Representation
I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow | From O Brother,...
Jeff Buckley - I Know It’s Over
November 2011
“A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation,...”
– White Fang, Jack London
