paolo i. @p

things never happened in this order. maybe they never happened at all. trailing away. offshore Joined October 2006

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paolo i. @p

5 months ago

imagine if no conversation was possible and it was all just a cacophony of solipsisms

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paolo i. @p

9 months ago

wherever you grieve, there you are

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paolo i. @p

11 months ago

all this pressure everywhere to grow over time. as if we were cancer.

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everybody seemed to be acting off the same scripts, so that any and each day the view outside the window lulled you into the cheap, bleary reassurance that you were safe, that nothing would harm you, as long as you stuck to the script yourself

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paolo i. @p

a year ago

the world’s most private browsing experience has nothing to do with computers

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paolo i. @p

a year ago

gorgeously translated or not, this is the antithesis of mysterious, winding sentences: with so few characters at hand, there’s very little room to go winding up, or down, or anywhere else

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paolo i. @p

a year ago

you evolve with the images inside, said Hanne Ørstavik in an interview

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paolo i. @p

a year ago

we're sitting together, apparently. lightly banging on a drum.

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paolo i. @p

a year ago

the synopsis reads: a dancer sailing to Puerto Rico hides government messages in her tap routines. 81 years later, you can see the government as the foe it has always been, and the muscles tensing while you tap routines is your core ping.

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paolo i. @p

a year ago

like a e.e. cummings poem from the 50s, the morrow came with sunlight in its basket

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paolo i. @p

a year ago

on the other hand, you could/should also not prostrate for anything or anybody at all. except maybe on particular occasions as elaborate foreplay.

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paolo i. @p

a year ago

in 1952, in his notes, Ottiero Ottieri wrote that to tear down a wall, you really have to tear down a wall. by any other way, such as thinking strong and hard to the wall falling down, the wall won’t fall.

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paolo i. @p

a year ago

sadly there is no proper Italian translation for this interpretation of "stream", and using it in its original form, aside from butchering context, would make it sound like, you know,