The extraordinary sequence in Proust’s Time Regained where the narrator fails to recognise a room full of elderly-looking people before realising that, in fact, they’re his friends who have like him become old without realising.

This may also have been the inspiration, or part of it (tangled tale) of Yeats's poem On A Picture Of A Black Centaur Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood, Even where horrible green parrots call and swing. My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud. I

IT'S HERE🚨 Join me & Alina Stefanescu to discuss Rilke's "The First Elegy," which sets the stage for his decade long inquiry into the inner-outer world of the psyche, experience in the world & the "mission" of his poetic oeuvre 🌬️🔥 Ode & Psyche Podcast Alina Stefanescu podcast.ruthstonehouse.org/podcast/readin…

The most punk rock thing to do? Being earnest. open.spotify.com/episode/0yPCDP…

“Nobody wants to hear somebody just talk…” youtu.be/9p1ey7_Ekq0?si…

"On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth." KUNDERA

highly recommend Weird Studies . the most i've been obsessed with a podcast in forever. listening from the beginning

what are some films which are philosophical without feeling like 'thought experiments'? (so more like First Reformed or Margaret or Yi Yi and less like Truman Show or The Matrix)

youtu.be/Z7ix7LJt70k?si… Me and Steve from The Idiot’s I Ching got together on Hampstead Heath a few days ago and talked about Reich & the I Ching in a nice, free flowing chat. Please give it a listen if these topics grab you

Jane Kenyon’s advice:

Getting my Xmas greetings in early this year. Happy Crimbo 2024, folks! The Comfort of Bleak Life Mantras youtu.be/-1fWjzUwhH0?si… via YouTube

"I'm just trying/ to get through enemy lines / with my words." Karl Krolow Translated by Stuart Friebert If you listened to the latest Ode & Psyche Podcast on Franz Wright, we discuss Krolow was one of his great German poet influences-- new to me. & Im Loving it so much.

Mike Eigen is so great. I've been thinking about the rejection of the so-called "mystical" from various angles--he's speaking to it as a dimension or dimensions-of experience. I love how he admits not knowing exactly, keeping open. & I love this bit where he feels like a vagina.

Ah this is a nice companion piece with the poem below… or an evil twin perhaps?

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Tomas Tranströmer • the great enigma new collected poems translated by Robin Fulton

Charles Simic

I love this Joseph Ceravolo poem so much