Anthony @timesflow
Reading for necessity at Time’s Flow Stemmed. Distracted by everything else along the way. timesflowstemmed.com London Joined September 2010-
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On September nights heavy with pollen and absence, the body, dulled by antihistamines, drifts with the mind through Bachelard’s Water and Dreams, as unnamed aches and temporal echoes stir at the threshold of now and memory, murmuring just beneath the skin.
“As happiness receded into dreams, the passion ended where it began: in sleeplessness. The lovers never really recovered the four days spent in Vienna; these letters were their only progeny. And the ghosts consumed any consolation.” (Philip Boehm on Kafka and Milena)
I'm more than a little haunted by this feeling that I've been the therapy for 5 years & actually only said a handful of things, and ever I wait to say the exact Thing-- like a line of poetry that hits exactly while holding an Exact silence...but perhaps that's the...
I'm more than a little haunted by this feeling that I've been the therapy for 5 years & actually only said a handful of things, and ever I wait to say the exact Thing-- like a line of poetry that hits exactly while holding an Exact silence...but perhaps that's the...
2025 marks the 40th anniversary of “dessen sprache du nicht verstehst”. in order to honor this novel i’m not only gonna read it, to make sure i actually understand what is not meant to be understood, i’ll force myself to write a summary on every of its 600+ sections / 3305 pages.
It’s astounding how many viscerally angry reactions Rothko precipitates! Why do you think ppl are so incensed in the face of simple & profound art? Is it jealousy that the work appears so “easily” made? Perhaps, simple truths & simple beauties are all the more alienating?
It’s astounding how many viscerally angry reactions Rothko precipitates! Why do you think ppl are so incensed in the face of simple & profound art? Is it jealousy that the work appears so “easily” made? Perhaps, simple truths & simple beauties are all the more alienating?
Every time I wander around French bookshops, I’m reminded again that Anglo-American publishing serves marketing, not the book.
"A poetry that is not necessary is not poetry" Roberto Juarroz
To @FAAGiacometti - one of my favourite places in Paris for Beauvoir | Sartre | Giacometti exhibition
Özlü took the German version into Turkish, “giving it a new title that took the emphasis away from Pavese’s death and returned it to her urgent will to live.”
Özlü took the German version into Turkish, “giving it a new title that took the emphasis away from Pavese’s death and returned it to her urgent will to live.”
And the nights are not enough for me. The days are not enough. Not enough to be human. Words and languages, they can no longer contain me. Tezer Özlü, Journey to the Edge of Life
Pizarnik: “Someone delays the passing of time in the garden. And the creatures of autumn abandoned to silence.”

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