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Rene Magritte
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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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The blank signature 1965
Rene Magritte
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley: In Search of America (via wordsnquotes)
The Night of the Murdered Poets
I weep for you with all the letters of the alphabet that made your hopeful songs. — from Chaim Grade’s “Elegy for the Soviet Yiddish Writers”
64 years ago on August 12, 1952, Stalin ordered the execution of 13 Soviet Jews, many of them Yiddish writers, poets, critics, and thinkers, on false charges of treason and espionage. The event is referred to as the Night of the Murdered Poets and regarded by some as the successful destruction of post-war Yiddish literature and culture in the Soviet Union.
The defendants:
Peretz Markish (1895–1952), Yiddish poet, co-founder the School of Writers, a Yiddish literary school in Soviet Russia
David Hofstein (1889–1952), Yiddish poet
Itzik Fefer (1900–1952), Yiddish poet, informer for the Ministry of Internal Affairs
Leib Kvitko (1890–1952), Yiddish poet and children’s writer
David Bergelson (1884–1952), distinguished novelist
Solomon Lozovsky (1878–1952), Director of Soviet Information Bureau, Deputy Commissar of Foreign Affairs, vigorously denounced accusations against himself and others
Boris Shimeliovich (1892–1952), Medical Director of the Botkin Clinical Hospital, Moscow
Benjamin Zuskin (1899–1952), assistant to and successor of Solomon Mikhoels as director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater
Joseph Yuzefovich (1890–1952), researcher at the Institute of History, Soviet Academy of Sciences, trade union leader
Leon Talmy (1893–1952), translator, journalist, former member of the Communist Party USA
Ilya Vatenberg (1887–1952), translator and editor of Eynikeyt, newspaper of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee; Labor Zionist leader in Austria and U.S. before returning to the USSR in 1933
Chaika Vatenburg-Ostrovskaya (1901–1952), wife of Ilya Vatenburg, translator at JAC.
Emilia Teumin (1905–1952), deputy editor of the Diplomatic Dictionary; editor, International Division, Soviet Information Bureau
Solomon Bregman (1895–1953), Deputy Commissar of Foreign Affairs. Fell into a coma after denouncing the trial and died in prison five months after the executions.
Lina Stern (or Shtern) (1875–1968), the first female academician in the USSR and is best known for her pioneering work on blood–brain barrier. She was the only survivor out of the fifteen defendants.
Some who were either directly or indirectly connected to the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee at the time were also arrested in the years surrounding the trial. Although Solomon Mikhoels was not arrested, his death was ordered by Stalin in 1948. Der Nister, another Yiddish writer, was arrested in 1949, and died in a labor camp in 1950. Literary critic Yitzhak Nusinov died in prison and journalists Shmuel Persov and Miriam Zheleznova were shot – all in 1950.
More posts commemorating the atrocities with history, photographs, poetry, audio recordings, and more in the #night of the murdered poets tag.
The eulogy that Peretz Markish wrote for Solomon Mikhoels will stay with me until the end of my days. Mikhoels poured his heart and soul into the Black Book, into the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee so that the deaths of six million Jews in the Shoah could be brought to light and the world could know how many of us were murdered at the ends of the Nazis, and even beyond that: how many of us actually did resist, from Warsaw to Vilna to Kiev. Mikhoels never saw that work come to fruition: he was murdered on the orders of an antisemite at the head of an anti-semitic regime, who would later go on to order the deaths of those responsible for helping propagate Jewish culture and languages within the Soviet Union. Markish would be one of those murdered, as has already been stated.
But in 1948, when Mikhoels was murdered, Markish was distraught. They were the best of friends, and had worked on the JAFC and the Black Book together. Markish was a noted and accomplished writer of the Yiddish language, a man whose mastery of that language I could never hope to compare to. His eulogy to Mikhoels is hauntingly beautiful, and sad in every facet of its being, here is an excerpt:
Wave after wave, a stream of people follows each other, paying homage in procession: Six Million will rise up to honor you, the tortured, murdered millions, dead and silent.
As you honored them when you fell down, alone at midnight, aching from your wounds, amidst the wastes of Minsk, covered with snow, in the darkness of a raging, whirling storm.
As if, though dying, you were still trying to ease their pain, set them at rest and save their honour - a stark reproach against the world at large - now lying broken, frozen on the ground.
And the sadness flows, a silent warning, your downfall struck at your peoples very heart. In their graves, six million dead will rise to honor you, who fell, a victim, while you honored them.
“Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.” –Sylvia Plath
Me: [creates a temporary background character to help move scene along]
Scene: [ends]
Temporary character: [is still there for some reason(??)] Hey wassup
Me: Hey, uh…you need…to leave…
Temporary(?) Character: No.
Me: [sweats] Seriously, please leave now. Goodbye
Next Scene: [Begins]
Temporary New Character: [IS STILL AROUND AND SHOWING NO SIGNS OF LEAVING EVER AGAIN] So I have some ideas about the direction this story is heading and I think it should be more like-
Me: [crying as I accept that I am not the boss of anything I create, writing them permanently into the narrative and hoping they don’t beat me up]
This is exactly what happened with Martin. The shameless little weasel gets into EVERYTHING.
M A L A C H I A S Z
C Z E C H O W I C Z
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by Teddy Kelley
satire is “I’m going to take this concept to an extreme or absurd level in order to demonstrate how bizarre/nonsensical/illogical it is” and not “I said something bigoted but just kidding I didn’t really mean it hahaha”
Dang it I’ve written like 5000 words trying to explain this and I only needed this post to reblog
#i always remember that thing terry pratchett said #about how satire is meant to ridicule power #if you’re laughing at people who are hurting it’s not satire it’s bullying (tags via @vrabia)
Writing agent Jonny Geller gives advice to young writers.
Ask any woman & she’ll tell you why Eve bit / into that apple. Why she chose the universe instead / of you.
Topaz Winters, from “Witch in Red,” published in heather press (via lifeinpoetry)
I just imagined a jeopardy category of solely vine references
“I’ll take vines for $200 alex”
“hurricane Katrina… more like ____”
“What is hurricane tortilla?”
“vines for $600″
“back at it again at ______”
“what is krispy kreme”
“vines for 300”
“this young man has remained illiterate his whole life”
“who is jared”
“They were _______” “oh my god, they were _____”
“what is roommates?”
“things to yell when this bitch is empty.”
“what is yeet”
“Two men are relaxing in a hot tub at a considerable distance because they are ________”
“What is Not Gay, Alex.”
“There is only one thing worse than a rapist.”
“What is…a child.”
Jacquelin de Leon on Tumblr and Instagram
a quick witch sketch
#Inktober 2017 by Vicki Sigh on Instagram
Classic Paintings Reimagined as Tattoos Infused with Korean Art Techniques