December 2010
84 posts
twistin' the night away
2011 BE KIND
Even then I carried this hole in the floor in my heart.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes from the Underground)
Steps
How funny you are today New York
like Ginger Rogers in Swingtime
and St. Bridget's steeple leaning a little to the left
here I have just jumped out of a bed full of V-days
(I got tired of D-days) and blue you there still
accepts me foolish and free
all I want is a room up there
and you in it
and even the traffic halt so thick is a way
for people to rub up against each other
and when their...
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one...
– Aldous Huxley
I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living...
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights
For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were...
– 2666
…I get up. There is a white hole in the wall, a mirror. It is a trap. I know I...
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea, 1938.
Look through all humanity: you’ll never find
a man on earth, if a god leads him...
– (Oedipus, from Oedipus at Colonus, 266–268)