Letters Journal's Blog, page 3
March 23, 2011
César Vallejo
I will die in Paris, on a rainy day, on some day I can already remember. I will die in Paris–and I don't step aside– perhaps on a Thursday, as today is Thursday, in autumn. It will be a Thursday, because today, Thursday, setting down these lines, I have put my upper arm bones on [...]
March 16, 2011
Edouard Levé
You used to read dictionaries like other people read novels. Each entry is a character, you'd say, who might be encountered on some other page. Plots, many of them, would form during any random reading. The story changes according to the order in which the entries are read. A dictionary resembles the world more than [...]
March 8, 2011
And what about love then?
Joyous day no man sets flight and so scorched Gravity is halved and happened Long absence and advents inlets and wrongedness The glory and heaven of split ribs to fleshed teeth My heart is set on you.
Bereshit
Only the beginning is good. It should end then. Everything. When it carries on, there are problems and cracks. The worst betrayals. Better to end things and stay light, keep moving. See how quickly the revolution becomes the counter-revolution. It would be better to give up. It would be better to do nothing. Have your [...]
February 15, 2011
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
February 8, 2011
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Question and Answer
Q. What is the worst thing about news? A. It is a communications ideology. It assumes that information is significant. Go tell it to the Chaikovskists. It is all very well going to the people with a feast of facts about Turkish dams, and arms manufacturers and political corruption but what if the peasants run [...]
February 4, 2011
A twitcher's lists for The Day of Departure
Dear Persons of Libcom, I also saw there the Auroch, the Parpue, the Darlette, the Epigrue, the Cartive with his pear-shaped head, the Meije, the Emeu with pus in his ears, the Courtiplian with his eunuch pace; Vampires, Hypedruches with black tails Bourrasses with three rows of stomach pockets, Chougnous in gelatinous mass, Peffils with [...]
February 2, 2011
Buzz Bissinger
May the Packers break [Ben Roethlisberger's] legs on the first series of downs. Which will prove there is indeed a G-d who cares about football.
January 31, 2011
The communist should not attend
The communist should not attend, never mind organise, public protest demonstrations. Nor should he participate in spontaneous popular decision making structures such as soviets or assemblies. Any and all such involvements will inevitably lead to the loss of the ideas which he must develop in isolation from events, and against which popular forms must define [...]
