introducing the quiet terror of being alive

I just don’t know anymore

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[saddbitchposts]

For forever it seems

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[mysterium-solis]

Hymn of the Pythagoreans to the Rising Sun by Fyodor Bronnikov (1877)

[intotheclash]

Il mio libro sei tu, mio vecchio amore: ti ho letto le tue vertebre, la pelle dei tuoi polsi: ho tradotto anche il fragore dei tuoi sbadigli: dentro le tue ascelle ho inciso il mio minidiario: il calore del tuo ombelico è un tuo glossario: nelle xilografie delle tue rughe è il cuore dei tuoi troppi alfabeti: alle mammelle dei tuoi brevi capitoli ho affidato, mia bibbia, le mie dediche patetiche: questo solo sonetto, io l'ho copiato dalla tua gola, adesso: e ho decifrato la tua vagina, le tue arterie ermetiche, gli indici tuoi, e il tuo fiele, e il tuo fiato. Edoardo Sanguineti - "Radiosonetto"

[fox-teeth]

Today's my birthday and I'd like to share a new comic with you, it's called Marginalia. It's a love letter to all the weirdness of medieval manuscripts, and you can read it by unfolding a single sheet of paper!

Risograph print editions are also available in my shop.

[fox-teeth]

Thank you for all the love on Marginalia!

My online store has gotten a big influx of orders in the past week because of it. Please be patient with extended processing times while I fulfill all of them--rest assured that all your weird little medieval freaks are making their way to you!

[fox-teeth]

Went ahead and started printing 400 more copies today…I know which way the wind blows

[blueiscoool]

A Gold Scythian Neckpiece 4th century BC In the Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine in Kyiv

The Golden Pectoral from Tovsta Mohyla is a gold Scythian collar or pectoral discovered in a burial kurgan at a site called Tovsta Mohyla in modern Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, in 1971 by the Ukrainian archaeologist Borys Mozolevskyi.

[joytri]

[iosonoblu]

"Io sono un malinconico nato, ve lo dico subito. Ho la malinconia che mi gorgoglia in basso, viene su dalla pancia, fa il giro delle budella, poi si piazza nello stomaco e diventa magone. E col magone non sto più fermo, mi alzo, mi siedo, mi muovo, fumo come una ciminiera, tutto mi sta sui coglioni."

Gianni Celati - Lunario del paradiso

[cuties-in-codices]

cosmological, astronomical, and other diagrams

(1. the harmony of the spheres; 2. the world and the orbits of the planets, sun and moon; 3. the ages of the world until godefroy of bouillon; 4. the connection between sun, moon and earth; 5. apuleius' sphere of life and death; 6. the five zones of the earth of macrobius)

illustrations from a 15th c. copy of the liber floridus, an encyclopedic work originally written by lambert of st. omer in the 12th century. this copy was produced in lille and ninove, c. 1460

source: The Hague, KB, Ms. 72 A 23

[oaths-sworn-in-blood]

Firmamentum Sacrum

[gloosoli]

Starry Night Over the Rhone, Vincent van Gogh.

[fateofgrace]

john steinbeck, east of eden.

[totallyfuckd]

From Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky.

[hatin]

via weheartit

[literaryvein]

L. V., excerpts from the epilogue

[deactivist]

[garadinervi]

Eugen Gomringer (1925-2025)

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(image: Eugen Gomringer, Untitled (wind), 1952-1953, in Concrete Poetry. A World View, Edited and with an introduction by Mary Ellen Solt, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1968, p. 93 (Monoskop pdf here))