#nilling

[northwindow]

Lisa Robertson, from “Time in the Codex”

[clairemariestancek]

Sometimes my sadness in reading is that I can't stay.

Lisa Robertson, “Lastingness: Reage, Lucrece, Arendt,” Nilling

[worry-stone]

finally this year i did not attend church/mass with my family. they are there now. i refused to attend. refusing was easier than i thought, and made me feel so much better. i have so many awful and awkward memories of church. it's a terrible space for me to be in. i was unwilling. i finished reading Lisa Robertson's Nilling the other day. it was all too fitting. "The melancholics concern themselves with the structure of doubt, rather than the structure of belief, because doubt is inventive. Doubt complicates." (51)

[whaleace]

So for me, the topos of reading is necessarily inconspicuous, and if there can be any collectivist model of that inconspicuousness, I think that the complicities, erotics and discontinuities of friendship could suggest its shape.

Lisa Robertson - "Lastingness: Reage, Lucrece, Arendt" Nilling