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"As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth."
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"We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."
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Why to cling to fruitless fighting, if, at the end of the road, there is a deep grave and an infinite nothingness as a reward?
¿Por qué aferrarse en estériles luchas, si al final del camino se encuentra como todo premio un sepulcro profundo y una nada infinita? Roberto Arlt | |||||||||||
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"In a state of misery, beauty is a monster."
Léon Bloy (1846-1917), from his diaries (1/11/1900). | |||||||||||
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Genius? At this moment
A hundred thousand brains are dreaming they're geniuses like me, And it may be that history won't remember even one... ... Insane asylums are full of lunatics with certainties! Fernando Pessoa | |||||||||||
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The Poetry of Yannis Ritsos
HINTS: The Poetry of Yannis Ritsos Clay: 26 Pieces of cotton not for the wound— as evening falls resplendent— for the mouth for the ears for the eyes. Athens—January 18, 1978 Lots: 4 A pregnant woman at the window below the window the sea with scattered lemons with drowning victims. from Lots (1977) Night Tall eucalyptus trees and a wide moon. A star shimmers on the water. The heavens white, silver. Stones, ravaged stones, all the way up. Nearby, in the shallows, a fish is heard jumping, a second, a third . . . Grand, ecstatic orphanage — freedom. October 21, 1968 Partheni concentration camp Epilogue Life? — a wound in non-existence. July 27, 1968 Partheni concentration camp Aging Saturday, Sunday, Saturday again—and before you know it, Monday. A quiet dusk without color, or trees, or chairs. We have nothing to spend. The old pitcher on the dinner table; the plates, the glasses, the sad hands, the deserted— the spoon rises; another mouth finds it—but which mouth? Who eats? Who grows quiet? In the open window a small, forgotten moon swallows its own spit. It's not that we're no longer growing fat, but that we're no longer hungry. June 4, 1968 Partheni concentration camp Clay: 6 The shoes of the dead in all sizes you tried them all— and all at a very good price. Athens—January 16, 1978 from Clay (1980) | |||||||||||
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"Como no me he preocupado de nacer, no me preocupo de morir."
"Since I have not been concerned with being born, I do not worry about dying." Federico García Lorca | |||||||||||
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"Daddy, I have had to kill you.
You died before I had time..." from Daddy, Sylvia Plath | |||||||||||
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Camus (Myth, p. 18) | |||||||||||
Existence - system of null-functions activated into partial non-nullity by ignorance.
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"I received life like a wound, and I have forbidden suicide to heal the scar. I want the Creator, every hour of his eternity , to contemplate its gaping crevasse. This is the punishment I inflict on him."
Comte de Lautréamont - Les Chants de Maldoror ( chant III). (In french: "J’ai reçu la vie comme une blessure, et j’ai défendu au suicide de guérir la cicatrice. Je veux que le Créateur en contemple, à chaque heure de son éternité, la crevasse béante. C’est le châtiment que je lui inflige.") | |||||||||||
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THE HORROR-HORN by E.F. Benson
Amid the strains of Puccini, this is a Swiss hotel to match that of the sanatorium in the Swiss mountain snow of Mann’s ‘The Magic Mountain’ (reviewed by me at length in 2013), and Benson has somehow turned one scene into the Swiss snowy mountain of a very effective horror story, perhaps expressing the human fears then of the bestial that many white men feared in those days, and which came out in history. Benson removed the cannibalism of Mann (see passage quoted from the Mann below), and replaced it with the ripped-off hindleg of a chamois, shame! *** “Scarcely daring to venture, but following an inner compulsion, he passed behind the statuary, and through the double row of columns beyond. The bronze door of the sanctuary stood open, and the poor soul’s knees all but gave way beneath him at the sight within. Two grey old women, witchlike, with hanging breasts and dugs of fingerlength, were busy there, between flaming braziers, most horribly. They were dismembering a child. In dreadful silence they tore it apart with their bare hands—Hans Castorp saw the bright hair blood-smeared—and cracked the tender bones between their jaws, their dreadful lips dripped blood. An icy coldness held him. He would have covered his eyes and fled, but could not. They at their gory business had already seen him, they shook their reeking fists and uttered curses—soundlessly, most vilely, with the last obscenity, and in the dialect of Hans Castorp’s native Hamburg. It made him sick, sick as never before. He tried desperately to escape; knocked into a column with his shoulder—and found himself, with the sound of that dreadful whispered brawling still in his ears,…” – Thomas Mann (The Magic Mountain — published in 1924 the same year as The Horror- Horn? The preternaturality of the literary gestalt!?) | |||||||||||
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