February 2012
26 posts
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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the...”
– Joan Didion, The White Album (via lafautearimbaud)
“I have to have all space and all time participate in my emotion, in my mortal...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory
“We must never lose sight of the fact that, in both anthropological and...”
– Claude Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology
“I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory
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Song of the Open Road [1]
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune, Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.
The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them.
...
in time of daffodils(who know the goal of living is to grow) forgetting why,remember how
in time of lilacs who proclaim the aim of waking is to dream, remember so(forgetting seem)
in time of roses(who amaze our now and here with paradise) forgetting if,remember yes
in time of all sweet things beyond whatever mind may comprehend, remember seek(forgetting find)
and in a mystery to be (when time...
“.להיות או לא להיות? זאת השאלה”
– שקספיר, המלט
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“At fifteen I visualized myself as a world-famous author of seventy with a mane of wavy white hair. Today I am practically bald, bitches.”
“I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use,...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory
“Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.”
– Clifford Geertz (w. Max Weber), The Interpretation of Cultures
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January 2012
27 posts
“It is generally recognized that words are signs; but poets are practically the...”
– Claude Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology
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“It is certainly not then—not in dreams—but when one is wide awake, at moments of...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory
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“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is...”
– First words of Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
I Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird.
II I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds.
III The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds. It was a small part of the pantomime.
IV A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.
V I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of...
“Who of us knows all the words of the language he speaks and the full meaning of...”
– Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
“This entire study rests on the postulate that the unanimous feelings of...”
– Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
“I was a loner as a child, and for me everything was a strange symbol, the...”
– Italo Calvino, “Love Far from Home”, Numbers in the Dark
“?למה אנחנו צריכים לגור בטבע”
