Apr 25, 2023
Für Paul Celan das Geheimnis der Farne (détail) © Anselm Kiefer. Photo - Georges Poncet
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Für Paul Celan das Geheimnis der Farne (détail) © Anselm Kiefer. Photo - Georges Poncet
This afternoon, Celan will be in the spotlight at the German Institute. He had charm, no doubt about it. And yet, what an impossible man! After an evening with him, one was exhausted, because the need to control oneself, to say nothing that could hurt him (and everything hurt him), left one without strength in the end, totally dissatisfied with him and with oneself. One blamed oneself for having been such a coward, for having spared him to such an extent, and for not having finally exploded.
Notebooks Emil Cioran
Paul Celan – The word of going down deep
The word of going down deep that we have read. The years, the words since then. We still are who we are. You know space is infinite, you know there is no need to fly, you know: what wrote itself into your eye deepens us into depth. – Paul Celan From Die Niemandsrose (1963). Translated by Johannes Beilharz (© 2023).
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the white heart of our world rolls from our hands.
Paul Celan
Omega Radio for February 1, 2014; #45.
Chosen Few, The “No Fun On The Beaches”
Shirks, The “Cry Cry Cry”
Vicious, The “Dead Town
Hussy, The “Social Critique Of Madison”
Brain F≠ “So Dim”
Zygoteens, The “The River”
Ex-Cult “MPD”
Leather Nun / Ladernunnan “Ensam I Natt”
MegaCools “Fun Police 2”
Self-Defense Family “I Hate Young People, I Hate Fun”
Touche Amore “Is Survived By”
Sloths “Medication”
Total Abuse “Banned In Austin”
Bikini Kill “Jigsaw Youth”
Infinite Light Ltd. “ The Bullet Sent To Kill Me Is On Its Way”
Self-Defense Family “Apport Birds”
Death Engine “Amen”
Death Engine “Gun”
Cutthroats 9, The “Can’t Do A Thing”
Racebannon “Fox Boogie”
Pigface “Satellite: Needle In The Groove (No Damage Done)”
Corrections House “Hoax The System”
Buzzherd “Rise And Fall”
Neurosis “Sterile Vision”
Deafheaven “Please Remember”
Celan “Train Of Thought”
Cleanteeth “Collision Specialist”
Cleanteeth “Blame Canada”
J.J. Paradise Players’ Club “Music For A Dying Man”
Deluxe noise rock, garage, doom, sludge, and devastation.
Primo Levi s’en prit une fois à Paul Celan avec violence. “Écrire c’est transmettre, dit-il. Ce n’est pas chiffrer le message et jeter la clé dans le buisson.” Mais Primo Levi se trompait. Écrire ce n’est pas transmettre. C’est appeler. Jeter la clé est encore appeler une main après soi qui cherche, qui fouille parmi les pierres et les ronces et les douleurs et les feuilles mouillées, noires, gluantes de boue, ou craquantes, ou coupantes de froid, de la nuit à l’ouest du monde. Et chiffrer le message c’est encore appeler les yeux, requérir un savoir qui transmet le perdu. - Pascal Quignard, Zétès
A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth.
An artist can't hide behind truth. He can't hide anywhere
--Le Guin
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You are light: you will sleep through my Spring till it’s over.
I am lighter:
in front of strangers I sing.
--Celan
— Georges Perros, from Paper Collage II, trans. John Taylor
("in dream there is room for [[dream]]ing")