December 2011
18 posts
When offering an object to someone, external causality responds more rapidly to internal necessities. Erotic relations between myself and other individuals are more quickly established through the mediation of the object.
Gherasim Luca, The Passive Vampire
bathe close to humans & look deep into our eyes.
Julie Doxsee, Undersleep
the secret ingredient:
eggnog
sleeping over. piles of rugs for blanket nests. wearing old clothes. a german shepherd dog. finally rain. winter wedding.
in fact this ground is steeped in history they find corpses every time they dig.
W.G. Sebald, Calm November Weather
Five ways to heat up your sex life with Georges... →
Ambiguities.
He who desires but does not act breeds pestilence.
Georges Bataille
free box inventory:
7 pair womens’ shoes
The result of pursuing perfect taste was that their home ended with soulless rooms.
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This woman for whom writing papers is an exercise involving her entire body. She slams papers down on the table. Her headphones and her wrinkles. I can’t imagine what age when the things I find in the world will become so difficult but when I will still struggle to burrow into them. The computer. She is visibly frustrated. Her phone conversations if I want a teenager she has one and no she...
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noxrpm:
This stanza from Gottfried Behn’s poem, “Never Lonelier,” in the current issue of The Paris Review (tr. Michael Hofmann) -
Everything lays claim to happiness, swaps glances, swaps rings in wine-breath, in the intoxication of things, you serve the counterhappiness, the mind.
What a line by which to close a poem, “you serve the counterhappiness, the mind.” Not unhappiness, mind you,...
Startling Stories of Super Science
The scientist’s beautiful daughter. The crackpot inventor (see also: Here’s one I made earlier). Science mostly proceeds by saltatory leaps (see also: Evolution). It came to me in a dream. It was like a bolt of lightning (see also: I work best when my life is in danger). We scientists are above your petty emotions. There’s nothing algebra can’t prove. Young scientists...
