“I had stuttered in the face of an invited love. I had courted her, and she had invited me into love with her, to declare a love, if not in so many words, to love in speech, to allow myself to be loved ...”

extract from a new manuscript now available — link in pinned tweet

“I had stuttered in the face of an invited love. I had courted her, and she had invited me into love with her, to declare a love, if not in so many words, to love in speech, to allow myself to be loved ...”

extract from a new manuscript now available — link in pinned tweet

a brief passage from a recently finished manuscript

tobiasryan.substack.com/p/give-scandal…

The doctors in the hospital maintain…that we have retained inside our brain another, prehominoid, brain which is the legacy of some plesiosaurian ancestor; only one of our two brains accepts death.

Malraux, Lazarus (Tr. Terence Kilmartin)

write drunk, edit sober, but then read it back drunk again so you feel like a genius before submitting

Paris in the spring time

Sdrigotti on Lemebel :

The loca chronicles
Reviewing 'A Last Supper of Queer Apostles', by Pedro Lemebel (tr. Gwendolyn Harper)

theleftovers.substack.com/p/the-loca-chr…

French writer Jean Genet visiting Palestinian refugee camps near Amman, Jordan, 1971.

anywhere open for manuscripts ~35,000 words?

it's a historical coincidence, but also very much not a coincidence, that Levinas opposes the privileging of the ***right to exist*** to ethics

Ernesto Cardenal
(tr. Paul W. Borgeson)

Le génie du surréalisme (Annie Le Brun, Qui vive)

Par Arnaud Jamin

#AnnieLeBrun #ArnaudJamin #Diacritik #surréalisme
diacritik.com/?p=103180

there is no extreme of pain, physical, psychological or spiritual, that every person responsible for, enacting, supporting or excusing what Israel is doing in Gaza doesn't deserve to suffer every moment of their miserable lives

Nicole Caligaris on Gabrielle Wittkop, coming to @minorlits later this year ...

'True being resides in the contour of our desires.'

Ortega y Gasset