#french writer

[terrorignitis]

If it were sufficient to love, things would be too easy. The more one loves the stronger the absurd grows.

Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

[fomalhautrising]

ASTRO OBSERVATIONS : reborn from the ashes of Sabbath

Aquarius is the ultimate activist, rebel, always into transgressives & subversives ways of questioning social & societal issues, it’s not only the trendsetter, it’s the whole humankind collective consciousness !

12th house redemption (pleonasm) : the cosmic madness gets us to the path of the rise to the fall, from the birth to the death, but there’s a hope, the ressurection from darkness, the journey into underworlds of the star shines in the subconscious of everything on earth..

Free will is the basis of accountability in justice, but science tells us that there’s no free will, only dualism can create a spiritual plane of existence where things are uncaused. After saying this, do you not see the synchronicity btw double signs (Gemini, Cancer, Libra, Aquarius & Pisces), and their will of express theirs emotions with others to attain objectives together ? It’s so literal.

Many revelations come from drug utilization or dreaming, the whole tropic of the last sign, of Neptune, Jupiter & Venus, Pisces : it’s the big bang of einstein to the salvator mundi of da vinci passing trough MLK speeches !

Uranus at 29 degrees is the point of no return, the shift & trigger that can literally explodes everything on its way, the discovery can be the best & worst thing happened at the same space time.

Mars-Saturn aspects are not only the devil himself, in the sense of someone powerful, knowledgeable & againt God figures, that perverted people everywhere, it can be the ones fighting so hard for justice that they disappear a day from nowhere without any reasons & be found mysteriously dead in a forest disguised as a suicide lol..

The houses of joy of planets speak a lot about why the planetary natures are like that, for example :

1st house : Mercury -> the identification is really mindful and mindless, can be both, we’re indiviDUALITIES so basically a multiplicity of division of one being at the basis, the og unicellular on earth.

3rd house : the Moon -> the mind is very nourished by emotions rooted into our alimentary, subconscious forge the consciousness and vice versa like light reflected on a prism.

5th house : Venus -> our animality lies in the instincts of protection for your loved ones, the possessions we have & the things we cherish in yourself, stands out is loveable when made with values & ethic. Life is a Magnum Opus.

6th house : Mars -> for a long time, and it was our routines, the haunted should be fearful of the hunters because they were in need of food everytime for their way of living, no it’s the hardwork in a corporation that makes you burning out and collapse healthy.

9th house : the Sun -> did the faith can liberate us from global oppression, repression & control in a limitated environment ? the zenith passed, now it’s the debut fall into abyssal darkness, take the omens every single days..

11th house : Jupiter -> the soul always expands like universe, the heart is metaphorical & the empirical fails when magical powers hold the holy grail, and even the philosophical stone.

12th house : Saturn -> the last trial of fate, isolating & circling back into loops of vicious traumas from the past, but the messiah sun rises from this house to the one of his planet, jupiter, so get it and lock in spiritually with BOUNDARIES !

Hocus Pocus, witches cook as Bocuse !

[a-lady-and-her-quill]

[unspeakablearchives]

What would you say is the weirdest book that you've seen in your research? Not the most disturbing or freaky or whatever, but the type that makes you go "...what?"

Huh. Good question... 🤔

As a matter of fact, I've found a lot of very weird books just incidentally as part of my research. I might have to actually break this up into a whole series of posts...

Here, let's start with one very specific category:

𓊈 Weird French Books 🇫🇷 𓊉

The French have a particularly long and illustrious history of very weird books, including the weird literary movements of Lettrism and Oulipo. So what the hell, lets start with some Weird French Books:

Livre de Prières (1886) aka "Book of Prayers" by J. Hervier, J. A. Henry, and A. Roux

Huh, this just looks like a normal prayer book... What's so special about it? Heh, well buckle up. Strap in. Shit's about to get crazy.

Because this book is not printed, and it's not handwritten either. The pages of this book are made of woven silk. The creators used a precursor to modern computers, the extremely complex, Victorian Era programmable Jacquard loom, in order to literally weave the threads into the intricate pattern of text and illustrations. This was unimaginably difficult, and required many thousands of punchcards to be meticulously punched by hand. It is a literally insane the amount of effort for what I believe amounted to only... something like 50 copies of the book.

You can examine the whole thing HERE

Le Livre (1984) aka "The Book" by Pierre Guyotat

Guyotat is revered by academics in France, and his writing style was always extremely unique and bizarre. For instance, his book Éden, Éden, Éden (1970) is a litany of obscenities, written as a single, long, frantic, delirious run-on sentence. And let me be clear, THAT book seems absolutely mainstream and boring compared to Le Livre.

Le Livre isn't quite written in a separate invented language, it's more as if it was written in a rhythmic, polyphonic French that's been mutated and mutilated so drastically in morphology, syntax, sound, and typography that it becomes something alien. The style is aggressively broken up, sometimes described as being "riddled with apostrophes, as if they were sprayed from a machine gun." It's composed of chopped-up words, intentional misspellings, certain sounds missing or added, and contractions that can make it look almost unreadable, etc.

It's never been translated because that would be literally impossible. And I've never read it because I can't even read normal French, let alone whatever the fuck this is written in. Also it's strangely hard to find a copy of the book.

Composition n° 1 (1962) by Marc Saporta

Okay, the descriptions are getting too long. I'll try to keep them more compact from here on out:

This "book" is one hundred and fifty loose pages, which the reader is instructed to shuffle and then read in whatever order they land in.

Cent mille milliards de poèmes (1961) aka "One Hundred Thousand Billion Poems" by Raymond Queneau

A "book" designed as a sort of... poem-generating machine?

It is only ten pages long, consisting of ten different sonnets, using the same rhyme scheme. Kind of. But each line of the poem is cut into a thin strip. This allows you to mix and match the different lines in order to make 100,000,000,000,000 (one hundred trillion) different sonnets.

La Disparition and Les Revenentes (1969) aka "A Void" and "The Exeter Text: Jewels, Secrets, Sex" by Georges Perec

The first book is written to not use the letter "e" at any point. And the second book is written using "e" as the ONLY vowel. I cannot stress how difficult and frustrating these would have been to write.

Even more baffling was that both books were somehow translated into English so that the translations ALSO avoid the letter "e", and exclusively use the letter "e" for vowels, respectively.

I know that the first book also also has a rather clever premise where the sudden disappearance of the letter "e" from the world becomes a central mystery in the book.

Les Journaux des dieux (1950) aka "The Journals of the Gods" by Isidore Isou

Bro, I don't even know wtf this shit is.

The book mixes words, letters, drawings, diagrams, musical notation, mathematical signs, and blocks of color layered on top of one another, in an attempt to unite many different systems of communication inside one book.

...it might not work, but hey, he gets points for trying.

[preraphaelitepaintings]

Baronne Madeleine Deslandes

Artist: Edward Burne-Jones (English, 1833-1898)

Date: 1895-1896

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Baronne Madeleine Deslandes (1866–1929)

Baronne Madeleine Deslandes was an accomplished novelist who moved in literary and artistic circles in Paris. She was hostess of a busy salon that attracted many Symbolist artists, poets and composers.

[afrenchladyinnc]

[gummysnail]

"Persepolis" graphic novels and following animated adaptation have had such a huge impact on my teenage self, and shaped who I am today.

I've dreamt of meeting you, Marjane, of thanking you, of crying with you.

I hope you're resting now, I hope you're back with Mattias.

You will always be the driving force of French and Iranian Female fighters, of feminists around the world.

Thank you, Marjane Satrapi.

[ombre-originelle]

Francesco Hayez - Le baiser (1859)

Sais-tu d’où vient notre vraie puissance ? Du baiser, du seul baiser ! Quand nous savons tendre et abandonner nos lèvres, nous pouvons devenir des reines. Le baiser n’est qu’une préface, pourtant. Mais une préface charmante, plus délicieuse que l’œuvre elle-même, une préface qu’on relit sans cesse, tandis qu’on ne peut pas toujours... relire le livre. Oui, la rencontre des bouches est la plus parfaite, la plus divine sensation qui soit donnée aux humains, la dernière, la suprême limite du bonheur. C’est dans le baiser, dans le seul baiser qu’on croit parfois sentir cette impossible union des âmes que nous poursuivons, cette confusion des cœurs défaillants. Te rappelles-tu les vers de Sully-Prudhomme : Les caresses ne sont que d’inquiets transports, Infructueux essais du pauvre Amour qui tente L’impossible union des âmes par le corps. Une seule caresse donne cette sensation profonde, immatérielle des deux êtres ne faisant plus qu’un, c’est le baiser. Tout le délire violent de la complète possession ne vaut cette frémissante approche des bouches, ce premier contact humide et frais, puis cette attache immobile, éperdue et longue, si longue ! de l’une à l’autre. - Guy de Maupassant. Le baiser