Salt River Jordan

"overflowing with blossomfoam, like a sudsy mug of beer; like a bride ripping off her clothes"

[akraticwolf]

The Wall Street Journal:

A few weeks ago, Chinese collectors took home four of the priciest pieces in Sotheby’s series of Old Master sales, including a $13.2 million George Stubbs painting of two leopard cubs, “Tygers at Play,”

I was reading JM Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello...

[saltriverjordan]

‘Do not forget that a poem, even though it is composed in the language of information, is not used in the language-game of giving information.’

Wittgenstein, Zettel

[saltriverjordan]

One of the most eloquent denunciations of plagiarism is delivered by Tristram Shandy. ‘Shall we forever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?’ he asks. ‘Are we forever to be twisting and untwisting the same rope?’ It was not noticed until some time after Laurence Sterne’s death in 1768 that this passage was itself plagiarised from Robert Burton’s attack on literary imitators in his introduction to The Anatomy of Melancholy.

Mark Ford, "Love and Theft" 

[saltriverjordan]

The Kingdom

animals are divided into:

• those that belong to the Emperor,

• embalmed ones,

• those that are trained,

• suckling pigs,

• mermaids,

• fabulous ones,

• stray dogs,

• those included in the present classification,

• those that tremble as if they were mad,

• innumerable ones,

• those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush,

• others,

• those that have just broken a flower vase,

• those that from a long way off look like flies.

From the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge,

by Jorge Luis Borges

[akraticwolf]

"I sought the relatedness of all things by isolating their relatedness, a man superbly alone with his sense of not having touched, and finally knowing in his last extremity that the love which had always been in the room unlocated was now found." - Arthur Miller on Death of a Salesman

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Arthur Miller on the writing of his play, Death of a Salesman. 

"Above all, perhaps, the image of a need greater than hunger or sex or thirst, a need to leave a thumbprint somewhere on the world. A need for immortality, and by admitting it, the knowing that one has carefully inscribed one's name on a cake of ice on a hot July day."

[nevver]

Gabriel García Márquez, RIP

[saltriverjordan]

James Baldwin on Sentimentality in 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'

"Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel; the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent inhumanity, the mask of cruelty."

[saltriverjordan]

Frank O'Hara. Nocturne. 

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And All That Could Have Been. https://soundcloud.com/nineinchnails/and-all-that-could-have-been there is no excuse for nine inch nails at this time of night.  but because nostalgia is shameful, and full of fishhooks, it recalls the picture: "Outside the youth center, between the liquor store  and the police station, a little dogwood tree is losing its mind;"

[saltriverjordan]

In honour of Thomas Nagel: what it's like to be a bat.

Analogies — for example, 'Red is like the sound of a trumpet' — are of little use. That should be clear to anyone who has both heard a trumpet and seen red.

http://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil1000/Nagel.pdf