February 2012
12 posts
Whittaker good: Travel and Modernist Literature:... →
whittakeres:
Travel and Modernist Literature: Sacred and Ethical Journeys Through close readings of works from Henry James to W. E. B. Du Bois, and from Virginia Woolf to Jean Rhys, this book discusses how fictional travelers negotiate and adapt various tropes of travel (such as quest, expatriation,…
mythologyofblue:
Light floods the room and drives shadow beyond shadow to where they hang in folds inscrutable. What does this central shadow hold? Something? Nothing? I do not know…
-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
[light]
“It is not given to every man to take a bath of multitude; enjoying a crowd is an...”
– Baudelaire, Crowds (via bbcity)
“Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where...”
– Walter Benjamin, One-Way Street and Other Writings (via mythologyofblue)
January 2012
41 posts
“Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting...”
– James Joyce, Ulysses
(adapted from barretta)
“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can...”
– Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
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(via mythologyofblue)
“The more antagonistic a person is toward the traditional order, the more...”
– Walter Benjamin, “One-Way Street,” Reflections, pg 69 (via aquaticambience)
“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which...”
– Walter Benjamin (via lucjanlocke)
“To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it ‘the way it...”
– Walter Benjamin’s On the Concept of History (via detroitweirdness)
“To be silent; to be alone…one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being...”
– Virginia Woolf (via conversewithbirds)
“The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily...”
– Virginia Woolf (via eurydiceunderground)
“She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far...”
– Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (via faerielandsforlorn)
“Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.”
– Jack Kerouac (via honeyforthehomeless)
“And their masks, far from making their faces less human or less unique, made...”
– John Berger from ‘Portrait of a Masked Man’ from Harper’s Magazine (via gravellyrun)
“The pursuit of individual happiness has been acknowledged as a universal right....”
– John Berger, “Ways of Seeing” (via forwardtofootlights)
A new book about introverts
jessicabrokaw:
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Seems interesting.
“It’s the extrovert, prancing around, dying for a bit of fun—that’s the person you’ve got to be wary of.”
Jean Rhys Good Morning Midnight
Stitch & Line: The Painter of Modern Life →
stitchandline:
Few men are gifted with the capacity of seeing; there are fewer still who possess the power of expression. So now, at a time when others are sleep, Monsieur G. is bending over his table, darting on to a sheet of paper the same glance that a moment ago he was directing towards external things,…
“Modernity must stand under the sign of suicide, an act which seals a heroic will...”
– Walter Benjamin, “The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire”, in Selected Writings, Volume 4: 1938-1940 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003), 45. (via chipclayton)
“Le rêve est plus fort que l’expérience.”
– Gaston Bachelard “La psychanalyse du feu” (1938)
“The phalanstery is a city composed of arcades. In this ville en Jassages, the...”
– Walter Benjamin, from Exposé of 1939 (via d2viaa2)
hours:
“[Attentiveness is] the natural prayer of the soul.”
— Nicolas Malebranche, quoted in “Franz Kafka,” Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (edited by Hannah Arendt and translated by Harry Zohn) by Walter Benjamin
The Modern Moment - chaos or potential?
‘I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry, and time one livid final flame. What’s left us then?’ Joyce, Ulysses
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the...”
– Franz Kafka (via doubledaybooks)
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is...”
– Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities [ via Frank Chimero ] (via dirtyskydub)
A consideration when trying to open thoughts:
“The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.” ― Michel Houellebequ, The Elementary Particles
Whittaker good: Travel and Modernist Literature:... →
whittakeres:
Travel and Modernist Literature: Sacred and Ethical Journeys Through close readings of works from Henry James to W. E. B. Du Bois, and from Virginia Woolf to Jean Rhys, this book discusses how fictional travelers negotiate and adapt various tropes of travel (such as quest, expatriation,…
Baudelaire & Wordsworth... →
Romanticism connected the sentiment of passionate love to artistic expression perhaps more closely than any other literary movement by describing both as the undistorted expression of intense and genuine emotion. Wordsworth’s famous definition of poetry in the 1802 Preface to the Lyrical…
“The house we were born in has engraved within us the hierarchy of the various...”
– Gaston Bachelard, Poetics of Space, 15.
(via theludicreal)
“To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize ‘how it really was.’ It...”
– Walter Benjamin, “On the Concept of History” (1940)
“The house we were born in has engraved within us the hierarchy of the various...”
– Gaston Bachelard, Poetics of Space, 15.
(via theludicreal)
“The good writer says no more than he thinks. And much depends on that. For...”
– Walter Benjamin, 1928 (via marklow)