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literaturha · 1 year

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Time is the presence of God in the world of space, and it is within time that we are able to sense the unity of all beings.

Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath

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artbookdap · 4 years

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Congrats Siglio Press and Bernadette Mayer on this great Publishers Weekly review of 'Memory'!⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ "This beautiful, large-format book combines over a thousand of Mayer’s photographs (Mayer shot a roll of film every day during the month of July in 1971) with poems and stream-of-consciousness writing. With infrequent end punctuation, the text feels immersive, an intimate journal that includes road trips, questions about God, and movie plots juxtaposed against photos from the quotidian (laundry in the sink, subway platforms, a naked man from behind). Along with references and allusions to literary and artistic names (Emily Dickinson, Jasper Johns, Philip Roth, Gertrude Stein), Mayer gives the sense of a poet recording every thought at every moment, including repetitions, anger, revelations, plans, and the mundane. Images such as 'corn yellow taxis taxi down broadway,' 'both mother & father resemble police cars,' and 'green rain' liven these observations. Mayer refers to herself as 'the imp of the perverse,' but she also captures the ineffable, writing 'you remember the past backwards & forget.' This substantial volume will engage fans of Mayer and introduce new readers to a particular and remarkable voice."⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ⁠This is a bookseller favorite. Please order from your local independent #bookstorehero — many are still shipping or offering curbside pickup! You can also order from local independents via @bookshop_org or #indiebound⁠⠀⁠⠀⁠⠀⁠⠀ Or order directly from artbook.com⁠⠀⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ @sigliopress #bernadettemayer @publisherswkly #memory #nationalpoetrymonth #poetry #experimentalwriting #readmorewomen⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ https://www.instagram.com/p/B_Ai2OcJ90j/?igshid=6z3rtjt3nuw8

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5forfriday · 6 years

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Five for Friday - 1 December 2017

To see the Future of Cities, Watch the Curb. yes, the Curb (Wired) The curbside has always been a a place for walking and loitering. But in just the past decade, smartphone technology has enabled new transportation services, all of them looking for their own bit of the terrain. The McPhee Method (LARB) One way to get closer to something is by way of distinctions — by considering what that thing could be but is not. The Psychology of Giving Human Names to Your Stuff (The Cut) According to a 2013 poll from the insurance company Nationwide, around 25 percent of car owners have named their ride. Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death (NYT) “The way we die is a mirror of the way we live,” said Takumi Nakazawa, 83, the chairman of the resident council at Mrs. Ito’s housing complex for the past 32 years. How Children Change the Way We See (New Yorker) To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I’m amused by my children’s awe at quotidian things—a toy helicopter, a bubble bath, the visible tentacles on a plate of calamari.

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literaturha · 2 years

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Secularization means, in the first place, a slackening of obligations—of any obligation. And, in certain cases, an elimination of such obligations. Apart from respecting laws, which implies the observance of an order, the only obligation that remains in every circumstance is the payment of taxes. No ritual is compulsory, not even that of voting. The resulting situation may rouse a subtle sense of euphoria. There, before the eyes of all, is a vast arena of what is available. And of what is permissible, so long as it is lawful.

Roberto Calasso, The Unnamable Present

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literaturha · 1 year

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We are all infatuated with the splendor of space, with the grandeur of things of space. Thing is a category that lies heavy on our minds, tyrannizing all our thoughts. Our imagination tends to mold all concepts in its image. In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch. Reality to us is thinghood, consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.

Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath

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literaturha · 2 years

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Ready to go at creation a second time, hoping to get it more right this time, God appears, splits, and manifests as three critics in the sky: a large bird who critiques from above, a large fish who critiques from the middle, and a large bear who critiques while cradling creation in its arms.

Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

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literaturha · 1 year

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literaturha · 2 years

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'Think only of things that actually exist.' But what about the things that didn't exist but nonetheless showed themselves to me?

Yoko Tawada, Memoirs of a Polar Bear

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literaturha · 6 months

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This time tomorrow, where will we be? / On a spaceship somewhere / Sailing across an empty sea / This time tomorrow, what will we know?

The Kinks, This Time Tomorrow

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literaturha · 6 months

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They're trying to build a computerised community/ But they'll never make a zombie out of me

The Kinks, Muswell Hillbilly

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literaturha · 2 years

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Ruth Krauss, Open house for butterflies

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literaturha · 1 year

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Time is the process of creation, and things of space are results of creation. When looking at space we see the products of creation; when intuiting time we hear the process of creation.

Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath

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literaturha · 7 months

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In this way, if all of them are unpunctual (because the Karmas' perception of time is really more elastic, making their favorite verbal conjugation the gerund: to say that something is being done without implying that it has to be finished, an in that way to float in an eternal during) then none of them are unpunctual and the whole idea of punctuality annuls itself. The myth of the eternal beginning.

Rodrigo Fresán, The Invented Part