May 19, 2025
"I am as I am, and that's all there is to it," he said to himself, "I can hardly take a pair of scissors to myself, and cut out a different person who might be a better friend to him."
—Franz Kafka, "The Judgement"
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"I am as I am, and that's all there is to it," he said to himself, "I can hardly take a pair of scissors to myself, and cut out a different person who might be a better friend to him."
—Franz Kafka, "The Judgement"
[Text ID: If this myth is tragic, that is because its hero is conscious. Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?]
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
the joy and grief of being a parent
S1xE10, House of the Dragon // Nick Roche, Requiem of the Wreckers // Raymond Carver, “A Small, Good Thing” // S1xE9, Arcane // Stephen Adly Guirgis, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot //
Albert Camus throwing shade at Galileo
The cities dissolve, and the earth is a cart loaded with dust Only poetry knows how to pair itself to this space.
Adonis, “Desert” (trans. Khaled Mattawa)
If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.
W.H. Auden, “The More Loving One”
Forgiveness in families is a mystery to me, how it comes and how it lasts.
Alice Munro, “Forgiveness in Families”
I liked it when our feet were aligned, left with left, and struck the ground at the same time, leaving footprints on the shore that I wished to return to and, in secret, place my foot where his had left its mark.
André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name