Once again thinking about Cărtărescu and how I have yet to read Blinding. Reading reviews is making me envious of those who have.

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Now watching

Of all the characters in Bolanõ’s The Savage Detectives I think I love Joaquín Font the most

Just drinking a little Yeats water and thinking about how the blood-dimmed tide is loosed everywhere and the ceremony of innocence is drowned.

“There is indeed a god of war, but of all gods, he is the most impassive, the least permeable to prayers.” Deleuze

I think I once had a pdf of this book but never got round to reading it.

Jan Švankmajer, 'Alice', 1988

A tiny little poem of mine in the small yet mighty aswirl — sign yersels up!

Arrived today

“What we have we soon have no longer . . . All we have and possess is what we long for; all we are is what we’ve never been. I was less a phenomenon than a longing, only in my longing did I live, and all that I was was nothing more than longing.”

— Robert Walser (tr. Bernofsky)

hard to believe this is over thirty years old. not dated at all, perfect music for the here and now

Finished organising my bookshelves…well nearly, I don’t have the heart to put absolutely everything in alphabetical order.