βIf you do not condemn colonialism, if you do not side with the colonial people, what kind of revolution are you waging?β
β Ho Chi Minh, The Path Which Led Me To Leninism, 1960
βI have struggled all my life to cure this tendency to daydream, lest it should carry me into remote waters. But the effort of swimming against this gentle current takes away some of my vital strength. And if, in fighting off daydreams, I gain in terms of action, I inwardly lose something very precious which can never be replaced. But one of these days I shall have to go, without worrying where I might end up.β
β Clarice Lispector, βSwimming Against the Tide,β in Selected Cronicas (trans. Giovanni Pontiero)
"Contemporary society is characterized by constant and relentless moralizing. But at the same time society is becoming more and more brutal. Forms of politeness are disappearing, disregarded by the cult of authenticity. Beautiful forms of conduct are becoming ever rarer. In this respect, too, we are becoming hostile towards form. Apparently, the ascendency of morality is compatible with the barbarization of society. Morality is formless. Moral inwardness dispenses with form. One might even say: the more moralizing a society, the more impolite it is. Against this formless morality, we must defend an ethics of beautiful forms."
Byung-Chul Han, The Disappearance of Rituals
Shuo Hao, Cinq choses et le gardien, 2022, Oil on wood, 170 x 1 x 207 cm (paravent ouvert) 66 7/8 x 3/8 x 81 Β½ inches (opened screen)
The Rings of Saturn
Galerie Derouillon, Paris, France
January 12 β February 25, 2023
favourite thing in the world is when the pages of a book go all soft and yellowy and the edges are slightly fuzzy and rounded. these books couldnβt give you a papercut if you tried theyβve been loved too much. they love you too much
you think so much. You could think about a door for a hundred years and it would stay closed.
i'm at my bunny best when i've had my bunny rest
βSor Juana InΓ©s de la Cruz, tr. by Judith Thurman, from "She Satisfies A Fear with the Rhetoric Tears,"
βI knew that in many dreams one must disregard the appearance of people, who may be disguised or may have exchanged faces with one another, like those mutilated saints on the fronts of cathedrals which have been repaired by ignorant archaeologists in a jumble of mismatched heads and bodies, attributes and names. Those we give to characters in our dreams can be misleading. The one we love can be recognized only by the quality of pain we feel.β
β Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time Volume II: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Now They're Saying Isolation Atrophies the Brain Maggie Smith
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i love you, it looks like rain, June Gehringer