February 2012
“You must not wage your Christian struggle with sermons and arguments, but with...”
– Elder Porphyry the Kapsokalivite on Winning People Over Through Love
“They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever...”
– John 16 : 2
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“Prog was the porn of the music industry. People almost used to ask for it in a...”
– Rick Wakeman
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“As cool as the pale wet leaves
of lily-of-the-valley
She lay beside me...”
– Ezra Pound, Alba (via redcheekedboy)
A Concordance to the Works of Jorge Luis Borges...
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“Jesus, often I still judge others too quickly despite what I have learned in my...”
– Alfred McBride, O.Praem.; “Challenge of the Cross”
¡Aiya!: For the seven lakes, and by no man these... →
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For the seven lakes, and by no man these verses: Rain; empty river; a voyage, Fire from frozen cloud, heavy rain in the twilight Under the cabin roof was one lantern. The reeds are heavy; bent; and the bamboos speak as if weeping. Autumn moon; hills rise about lakes against sunset Evening is…
richards home: A Summary Ezra Pound - WWII Radio... →
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A Summary Ezra Pound - WWII Radio Speeches No other American—and only a few individuals throughout the world—has left such a strong mark on so many aspects of the twentieth century: from poetry to economics, from theater to philosophy, from politics to pedagogy, from Provençal to Chinese. If…
• ᴥ •: On "Economic Democracy" (Ezra Pound) →
tsuei:
I’ve been having lots of fun trawling through the treasure trove that is the Modernist Journals Project. There are so many things to love about this project: from the very fact that they exist, to their design and type, to the people who wrote for those journals, to how well they have all been…
“I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman -
I have detested you long enough.
I come...”
– Ezra Pound, “A Pact” (via imaginedcities)
Thoughts: Modern Poetry
reetuh:
….when reading Ezra Pound
and sharing that experience
it’s like WE
knew a cherished secret
that others didn’t.
Today in class I fell in love with what Pound began.
I NEED MORE FRIENDS LIKE EZRA POUND
ismster:
Hemingway wrote in 1925: “He defends [his friends] when they are attacked, he gets them into magazines and out of jail. He loans them money. … He writes articles about them. He introduces them to wealthy women. He gets publishers to take their books. He sits up all night with them when they claim to be dying … he advances them hospital expenses and dissuades them from suicide.”
EXCEPT...
Bold & Justified: The Huge World of Typography →
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Ancient Olympia Antiquities Museum Is Robbed,... →
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Two masked armed robbers tied up a museum guard at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics in southern Greece and made off with dozens of artifacts, authorities said Friday.
Greece’s Culture Minister Pavlos Geroulanos submitted his resignation after the robbery at the antiquities museum in Ancient Olympia, but it was unclear whether it had been accepted by Prime Minister Lucas ...
GHEORGHEM: La Pesadilla →
chicojo:
SEÑORAS, SEÑORES:
Los sueños son el género; la pesadilla, la especie. Hablaré de los sueños y, después, de las pesadillas.
Estuve releyendo estos días libros de psicología. Me sentí singularmente defraudado. En todos ellos se hablaba de los instrumentos o de los temas de los…
“With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he also was an...”
– Jorge Luis Borges in “The Circular Ruins” (via menageme)
Asterion
speakmnemosyne:
Each year I am given my grass of men and there is water in the well. The paths of stone are knotted around me. Of what can I complain? In the evenings my bull’s head weighs me down a little.
—Jorge Luis Borges
“I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, “When fiction lives in fiction” (via difference-is-happy)
“Si el honor y la sabiduría y la felicidad no son para mí, que sean para otros....”
– Jorge Luis Borges, “La biblioteca de Babel”, Ficciones (1944) / “The Library of Babel” from Fictions. (via anhypnic)
ESphiRAL: EL LIBRO DE ARENA J. L. Borges →
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EL LIBRO DE ARENA
Jorge Luis Borges
La línea consta de un número infinito de puntos; el plano, de un número infinito de líneas; el volumen, de un número infinito de planos; el hipervolumen, de un número infinito de volúmenes… No, decididamente no es éste, more geométrico, el mejor modo de…
