- October 8, 2023
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Así que hemos decidido que Marcos deje de existir hoy.
Marcos es el nombre de un compañero que murió, y nosotros siempre tomabamos los nombres de los que morían, en esta idea de que uno no muere sino que sigue en la lucha. (2011, https://www.sociedaduruguaya.org/2011/03/majfud-las-raices-del-pensamiento-indoamericano-floracion-muerte-y-renacimiento-ii.html ) * * * * * * * * Así que hemos decidido que Marcos deje de existir hoy. [...] Dicho todo lo anterior, siendo las 0208 del 25 de mayo del 2014 en el frente de combate suroriental del EZLN, declaro que deja de existir el conocido como Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, el autodenominado “subcomandante de acero inoxidable” (2014, https://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2014/05/27/between-light-and-shadow/)
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excerpt
From Latin excerptus, past participle of excerpere (“to pick out”), from ex (“out”) + carpere (“pluck, pick, harvest”).
♡♡ | - October 6, 2023
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Overheard pedestrian on cellphone, Lexington Av
"It's completely unacceptable from an ethical point of view, but if you think about ..."
♡ | - October 5, 2023
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Three (1966)
Today but what day? Nevertheless a day, a time. In Spring. Air, sounds, odours remind. Last night emerging. Confronted by a place. Two people. I to them – they to me? Objects in the room placed as seats in an auditorium. They must be rearranged. No key to the door which automatically opens, closes. Cat aware of this. The cat R adores, L ignores. His body arched, L sidles corners, corridor. First to stride forward with a firm handshake. R shrinks into a former self, peers from there, waits for him to step back. Then out, clutched at, carried down to a level she alone breathes, feels safe in. He crawls over the edge, intake of breath as he lowers a string of formalities. I remained subdued. Concerned smiles, their concern in outbidding each other. We want to make you as comfortable as possible – are you sure you're not cold – too hot perhaps? He leans over, neck twists until the joints crack to his satisfaction. There's a double mattress say if you want an extra blanket won't you. She caressed the eiderdown, while he bounced on the bed. How are you feeling now? Feeling–feelings? What would it mean to them what has been will be? When did I begin to reconstruct a moment ago or a space as between waking and dreaming? Patterns reshaped in a form already designed shall anticipate all alternatives, become a measure of a certain consistency. The space between is no less significant than the place occupied at the time. My certainty shall be their confusion.
– a paragraph from Ann Quin's Three
♡♡ | - October 4, 2023
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I leave it to [the reader] to unfold the balled fist into the flat of a hand. – –
Hamann, end of "Metacritique on the purism of reason": [And what the transcendental philosophy metagrabolizes I have, for the sake of the weak reader, reread [gedeutet] the letter of its elements, the spirit of its coronation, towards the sacrament of language, and I leave it to each one to unfold the balled fist into the flat of a hand. – –] [Was die Transcendentalphilosophie matagrabolisirt, habe ich um der schwachen Leser willen auf das Sakrament der Sprache, dem Buchstaben ihrer Elemente, den Geist ihrer Einsetzung gedeutet, und überlaße es einem jeden die geballte Faust in eine flache Hand zu entfalten. – –] [Dashes end the text.]
- October 3, 2023
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The Myth of Felt, Leonardo Olschki♡ |
- September 26, 2023
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Capital v. 1 ch. 14: the division of labor and manufacture
At the same time, manufacture was unable either to seize upon the production of society to its full extent, or to revolutionize that production to its very core. It towered up as an artificial economic construction, on the broad foundation of the town handicrafts and the domestic industries of the countryside. At a certain stage of its development, the narrow technical basis on which manufacture rested came into contradiction with requirements of production which it had itself created.
- September 23, 2023
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15 janvier 1980
L'Autre manque. Ça me fait drôle à moi aussi. Je tiens le coup pourtant, ce qui vous épate, mais je ne le fais pas pour cela. Un jour d'ailleurs auquel j'aspire, le malentendu m'épatera tant de venir de vous que j'en serai pathique au point de n'y plus tenir. S'il arrive que je m'en aille, dites-vous que c'est afin — d'être Autre enfin. On peut se contenter d'être Autre comme tout le monde, après une vie passée à vouloir l'être malgré la Loi.
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Grimms' German Dictionary: "A" (first entry)
A, der edelste, ursprünglichste aller laute, aus brust und kehle voll erschallend, den das kind zuerst und am leichtesten hervor bringen lernt, den mit recht die alphabete der meisten sprachen an ihre spitze stellen. a hält die mitte zwischen i und u, in welche beide es geschwächt werden kann, welchen beiden vielfach es sich annähert. (I remember a joke, maybe Winnie the Pooh, reading a dictionary from A to Z.)
♡♡♡ | - September 22, 2023
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Stein's ROASTBEEF.
In the inside there is sleeping, in the outside there is reddening, in the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling. In the evening there is feeling. In feeling anything is resting, in feeling anything is mounting, in feeling there is resignation, in feeling there is recognition, in feeling there is recurrence and entirely mistaken there is pinching. All the standards have steamers and all the curtains have bed linen and all the yellow has discrimination and all the circle has circling. This makes sand.
Very well. Certainly the length is thinner and the rest, the round rest has a longer summer. To shine, why not shine, to shine, to station, to enlarge, to hurry the measure all this means nothing if there is singing, if there is singing then there is the resumption.
The change the dirt, not to change dirt means that there is no beefsteak and not to have that is no obstruction, it is so easy to exchange meaning, it is so easy to see the difference. The difference is that a plain resource is not entangled with thickness and it does not mean that thinkness shows such cutting, it does mean that a meadow is useful and a cow absurd. It does not mean that there are tears, it does not mean that exudation is cumbersome, it means no more than a memory, a choice and a reëstablishment, it means more than any escape from a surrounding extra. All the time that there is use there is use and any time there is a surface there is a surface, and everytime there is a suggestion there is a suggestion and every time there is silence there is silence and every time that is languid there is that there then and not oftener, not always, not particular, tender and changing and external and central and surrounded and singular and simple and the same and the surface and the circle and the shine and the succor and the white and the same and the better and the red and the same and the centre and the yellow and the tender and the better, and altogether.
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