ASHES TO ASHES, DUST TO DUST

IF THE WOMEN DON’T GET YOU, THE LIQUOR MUST.

[cithaerons]

Christian Lemmerz, Ecce Homo (2009)

[theoptia]

Hélène Cixous, from The Selected Plays of Hélène Cixous; “Black Sail, White Sail”

Text ID: There’ll be no hymns to our glory. / History has cut our throats.

[cithaerons]

Louise Glück, 12.6.71

[3y3]

The Return, Dean Gioia

[boyhood]

Carolein Smit 

[saintsebastiensbf]

The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova

[cithaerons]

Portrait of Jennie (1948) // dir. William Dieterle

[tristealven]

“Time is not a straight line, it’s more of a labyrinth, and if you press close to the wall at the right place you can hear the hurrying steps and the voices, you can hear yourself walking past on the other side.”

— Tomas Tranströmer (1931-2015), from “Answers to Letters”, in: “The Great Enigma”, translated from the Swedish by Robin Fulton (via finita–la–commedia)

[funeral]

“To be spectral is to be ghostlike, which, in turn, is to be out of place and time. Ghosts, as noted above, violate conceptual thinking based on dichotomous oppositions. They are neither fully present nor absent, neither living nor dead. The ghost is the mark or trace of an absence”

— Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, The Spectral Turn

[banji-effect]

Bedsheet embroidered with human hair from a severed head by the Countess of Derwentwater, 1716

The 300-year-old linen was embellished by Anna Maria Radclyffe in memory of her husband James, who was beheaded for treason in 1716.

The third Earl of Derwentwater and grandson of Charles II, he was 26 when he was executed for his involvement in the first Jacobite rebellion.

…The design, of intricate flowers, leaves and a large wreath in the shape of a heart, frames the inscription “The sheet OFF MY dear Lord’s Bed in the wretched Tower of London February 1716 x Ann C of Darwent=Waters”

[cithaerons]

Rosanna Warren, Poetry Reading 

[plasmapop]

30/04/22 • poem for the anniversary of lucan's death, cut out from his wikipedia + talk page

Lucan's Death - clarify

a youth born in a century he regarded as a kind of death, who grew up in a city burning with rhetoric.

he studied poetry until it bled into history, the biography of a dying Republic

the wound at the core of the Silver-Voiced war-ode he was not allowed to recite or publish.

A conspiracy is when you are discovered breathing fire (and the rest of the story is better unsaid).

bleeding to death—30 April 65 AD—what survives, or who? an Orpheus looking back on a City in flames,

the poem superfluous. his last words were disrupted. an unspeakable judgement given to crime. but

his masterpiece of grief escaped, circulating unfinished in the veins of other poets. read it and he lives.

[cithaerons]

Sara Eliza Johnson

[meschkinnes]

Notre Dame Street, Montreal, 1911

[artthatremindsmeofhannibalnbc]

John Isaacs, ARE YOU STILL MAD AT ME, 2001 Microcrystalline wax, oil paint, steel, expanding foam, latex, stage blood

http://www.johnisaacs.net/

[cithaerons]

Rothko wanted to paint basic human emotion. So he painted red over red over red. Behind the colour he was looking for light. In 1942 he painted The Sacrifice of Iphigenia, where Iphigenia is not a girl, but a black pine already resined in grief. Above her the amnesia of light, an umber sky, shadows spilling white, the only motion the white hands of the wind. The story of Iphigenia was never about the girl, but the men who called for the blood of a girl knowing that the winds would one day change. The forest charred, the air stilled, deranged, and the truth beneath it all is fear, was always fear, the open grave, the charcoal line, the dead growing out of the living like lichen, the pine a blood-eyed child, the pyres loose stones and living rooms. Dress it up in the white hands of the wind. Call it need. Call it necessity. Rothko wanted to paint basic human emotion so looked behind the light and found blood rushing to no end and no knowledge of end.

Ollie Cowley, Rothko / On Fear

[cithaerons]

anyone have recommendations for an in-gym weights / strength-training program for women? looking 3x week about an hour or less per workout with an app that will let you track progress