Berto

words of/with/because of/written by/read by/loved by a reader/writer/whatever. posting some of my own words, lots of the words of others. sorry about the stripe/shadow in the corners of my pictures. phone camera problems.

[young-lost-ones]

William T Vollmann 

[shihlun]

Writer Jorge Luis Borges with Bread Basket on His Head

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"Famous soundin words make your head feel light" -Spoon

[italocalvinoblog]

«La storia di Palomar - dice Calvino - si può riassumere in due frasi: “Un uomo si mette in marcia per raggiungere, passo a passo, la saggezza. Non è ancora arrivato."»

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Italo Calvino

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Change, she reflected between crumbs of sweet coffee cake she licked from her fingers, if you just managed to live long enough, even change changed.

Stanley Elkin

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...it was probably a sin to keep things from people who needed to know them more than you needed the distraction and comfort you got from not having to explain everything.

Stanley Elkin

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The existence of the horrible in every atom of air. You breathe it in as something transparent; but inside you it condenses, hardens, takes on pointed, geometric shapes between your organs; for all the torments and agonies suffered on scaffolds, in torture chambers, madhouses, operating rooms, under bridges in late autumn: all this has a stubborn permanence, all this endures in itself and, jealous of everything that is, clings to its own dreadful reality.

Rainer Maria Rilke

[litafficionado]

Borges and Italo Calvino. Roma, 1983.

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Recent additions to the collecfion

[coral]

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Rainer Maria Rilke

(via feellng)

Yes. Good selection here.

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Just started this (at William Gass' printed suggestion) after Barth's Floating Opera. Loving it already.

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This is so awesome Jesus Christ

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I've been taking a Shakespeare class this semester... Reading 6 of these bad boys. 4 down 2 to go.

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"Do you think love is ridiculous?" Harrison said. "Everything is ridiculous"

John Barth, from The Floating Opera

[unencumberedbylogic]

It’s not that students don’t “get” Kafka’s humor but that we’ve taught them to see humor as something you get—the same way we’ve taught them that a self is something you just have. No wonder they cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.

David Foster Wallace, ‘Some Remarks on Kafka’s Funniness From Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed’ in Consider the Lobster (via unencumberedbylogic)

Good choice, good quote, good writer.