the best minds of my generation

…etherised upon a table…

[mutant-what-not]

[apocryphics]

But the auditors of the Iliad knew that the death of Hector would be but a brief joy to Achilles, and the death of Achilles but a brief joy to the Trojans, and the destruction of Troy but a brief joy to the Achaeans. Thus violence obliterates anybody who feels its touch. It comes to seem just as external to its employer as to its victim. And from this springs the idea of a destiny before which executioner and victim stand equally innocent, before which conquered and conqueror are brothers in the same distress.

— Simone Weil, “The Iliad, or the Poem of Force”

[feral-ballad]

Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from Water I Won’t Touch; “Echo”

[soracities]

Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from his novel titled "The Fall," originally published in 1956

[videomontage]

some people have therapy all i have is jack kerouac’s june 10 1949 letter to allen ginsberg

[videomontage]

abt to smoke some deer meat pack it in my saddlebag and go away over the bluff for real

[soleilinfini]

mary oliver, staying alive

[grindrbooks]

[aguard1ente]

Lunch Poems / Frank O’Hara

—St Paul and all that

[kafk-a]

[chantssecrets]

James Baldwin

[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

[dykeselfcest]

AN ICON.....

[shihlun]

Diane Arbus, An Empty Movie Theater, N.Y.C., 1971

[asystolle]

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

BEFORE SUNSET (2004) dir. Richard Linklater

[rozzed]

why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? it won't hurt him....

[borderepisteme-deactivated20260]

"Anyone who has ever tried to recount a dream to someone else is in a position to measure the immense gap, the qualitative incommensurability, between the vivid memory of the dream and the dull, impoverished words which are all we can find to convey it: yet this incommensurability, between the particular and the universal, between the vecu and language itself, is one in which we dwell all our lives, and it is from it that all works of literature and culture necessarily emerge."

Fredric Jameson, Imaginary and Symbolic in Lacan