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Permutations

Someone I once shared my life with told me that it’s impossible to know if you love someone. Five years later, what he said finally makes sense. “I love you” could easily mean “I enjoy your company” or “I adore the way your skin smells” or something even more trivial like “I like the fact that your name consists of an equal number of consonants and vowels.” The possibilities are endless, like love.

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Double Suicide (1969). Japanese poster by Kiyoshi Awazu.

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Surrealism is like this woman on the wall. All this craziness going on in an Irish pub in a college town—frat boys and gym rats and chatty ladies and general society doing it’s thing—and there she is in her composed, static, elegant kitchiness, presiding over and transmuting the drunken stupor and noise. You look up in a moment of existential loneliness and appreciate her being intelligent and subtle in the midst of it all. And maybe you sense that time/history is on her side, and that she will outlast you and your shortcomings and incompleteness. And that maybe somehow you still participate in her triumph, vicariously and not at all because you’ve understood anything more than her surface features, and that that’s okay as far as she’s concerned, and that with her arms she makes a basket for you to come home and sleep in when you’re worn.

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In the flux and reflux of our passions and occupations (always divided, always I and my double and the double of my other self), there is a moment when everything comes to terms. The opposites do not disappear, but are fused for an instant.

Octavio Paz, The Bow and the Lyre

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Sebastião Salgado

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wasiat

siapapun engkau boleh datang dan pergi lima tahun sekali rapi berdasi dengan peci tetapi ingatlah segudang masalah akan selalu disini takkan selesai sendiri dan mati

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Dear poets, some advice from FERLINGHETTI

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Japanese Book Cover: Song Structure. Hiramatsu Rui. 2014

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tilt

to tilt forward the face in suspicion

–and therefore, coil it up,

put it in a private cloud–

shakes the overlapping lifetimes in a self-dissolution.

any other species mingles, collides, loses their way

on the empty crate in which fireweed totters

seed text: A New Selected Poems, by Galway Kinnell; art by isabel reitemeyer

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Experiencing the Unfamiliar is a six-part essay series on travelling I wrote for Whiteboard Journal. 

Introduction Part 1 Departing from Familiar Grounds (December 4, 2014) Culture Shock Part 2 What Is Not Understood (January 8, 2015) Part 3 Of Table Manners and Toilets (February 5, 2015) Documentation Part 4 Converting Experience into Memory (March 5, 2015) Part 5 The Words We Bring Home (April 2, 2015) Reflection and Conclusion Part 6 Leaving to Return (May 7, 2015) Artwork by Jakarta based illustrator Andri Nirmala.

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Nice weather in Jakarta.

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Birdman (2014). Japanese poster with art by BLT Communications, LLC.

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A witty saying proves nothing.

 Voltaire (via berfrois)

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Late-night Buckley therapies get rid of internal turmoils.

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