Upon your conception of the single individual all your descriptions will be based, all your science established. For this reason, the human sciences, philosophy, ethics, psychology, politics, economics, can never be sciences at all. There can never be an exact science dealing with individual life. L’anatomia presuppone il cadavere; anatomy presupposes its corpse, says D’Annunzio. [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Existential Kangaroo
Posted in Quotes, tagged D H Lawrence, Existentialism, Kangaroo, Literature, Quotes on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Collecting: An Unruly Passion: Psychological Perspectives
Posted in Quotes, tagged book review, collect, collecting, collection, compensation, cultural pursuit, Freud, psychoanalysis on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To collect is to create a meaningful set of objects. The meaning resides in the way the pieces in the collection call attention to one another. By understanding the dialogue between members of a collection, we discover what the collector wants to show us about the objects and the world. Perhaps for this reason, it [...]
Listen to James Joyce read from FINNEGANS WAKE!
Posted in Audio, tagged Anna Livia Plurabelle, Audio, Finnegans Wake, Insane, Ireland, Irish, James Joyce, James Joyce Reads, Literature, MP3 on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
joyce1.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object). Recording of Joyce reading from “Anna Livia Plurabelle” in Finnegans Wake. Soak up the weirdness. You are listening to: Book I, Chapter 8, pages 213.11-215.11. [I'll try to find the slightly longer version of this recording that goes up to 216.5, the end of both Chapter 8 and Book I -- "Dark [...]
Susana Soca :: J. L. Borges
Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Poetry, tagged Borges, Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Literature, Poetry on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
With slow love she looked at the scattered Colors of afternoon. It pleased her To lose herself in intricate melody Or in the curious life of verses. Not elemental red but the grays Spun her delicate destiny, Fashioned to discriminate and exercised In vacillation and in blended tints. Without venturing to tread this perplexing Labyrinth, [...]
The Passive Voice :: Rafael Campo
Posted in Poetry, tagged Gay, homosexuality, I Defining Us, Literature, Poem, Poetry, Queer, Rafael Campo, What the Body Told on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Imagine why a man likes being fucked. Imagine how my cock likes being sucked. Imagine making love to me, my friend. In English class, my teacher told us not To use the passive voice; “it’s weak,” he said. There was an older man who sometimes knocked At my back door; I’d think of him in [...]
Asylum :: Rafael Campo
Posted in Poetry, tagged homosexuality, I Defining Us, Literature, Poem, Poetry, Queer, Rafael Campo, sexuality, What the Body Told on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Demented underneath the moon, I watch The street conduct electric sparks tonight, These cars, their headlights, energy in flight– Skyscrapers precarious as men in heels. This night, it seems more glamorous than real. Demented underneath the moon, around Another corner, ten men beat the pan Of shiny, pooling blood another man Has made for them, [...]
This Craft of Verse – Jorge Luis Borges Audio Stream
Posted in Audio, Jorge Luis Borges, tagged Audio, Borges, Jorge Luis Borges, Lectures, This Craft of Verse on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This Craft of Verse – Jorge Luis Borges. [Sorry for the slight inconvenience: to access the above link you need to sign up for a (FREE) account (IT'S REALLY QUICK AND EASY!) at imeem.com. I'll try to put the audio directly in the post soon.] This is a real treat for Borges lovers. Listen to [...]
Parable of the Palace :: J. L. Borges
Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Short Prose, tagged Borges, Dreamtigers, El Hacedor, Jorge Luis Borges, Literature, Short Story, The Maker on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
That day, the Yellow Emperor showed the poet his palace. They left behind, in long succession, the first terraces on the west which descend, like the steps of an almost measureless amphitheater, to a paradise or garden whose metal mirrors and intricate juniper hedges already prefigured the labyrinth. They lost themselves in it, gaily at [...]
Hand to Mouth :: Paul Aster
Posted in Audio, tagged Audio, paris review on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Paris Review – Hand to Mouth. Paul Aster reads “Hand to Mouth.” SummerStage, 2003 Running Time: 17:25
Paradiso, XXXI, 108 :: J. L. Borges
Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Short Prose, tagged Borges, Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Literature, Short Story on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Diodorus Siculus tells the story of a god, broken and scattered abroad. What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite? Mankind has lost a face, an irretrievable face, and all have longed to be that pilgrim — imagined [...]
The Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 94 – E.L. Doctorow
Posted in Audio, tagged Audio, E. L. Doctorow, interview, paris review on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 94. 2000, running time: 11:52 Interesting and funny (fragment of a?) live interview.
Proust in Bed :: J. D. McClatchy
Posted in Audio, Poetry, tagged Audio, Marcel Proust, Poetry, Proust, Rats in Cages on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Paris Review – “Proust in Bed”. Twisted and hilarious, poem about Proust, read by poet. Who could ask for anything more? [Originally appeared in Issue 125, Winter 1992, of The Paris Review.] “Silliness is the soul’s sweetmeat.” Proust in Bed – J. D. McClatchey Through the peephole he could see a boy Playing patience [...]
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