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  • Some tunes

  • Un hasard n’est jamais qu’un destin qu’on ignore

    “un hasard n’est jamais qu’un destin qu’on ignore”
    “… vouée aux gémonies”
    “la piste de son fantôme”
    “les solitudes jonchent le sol de prisons sans geôliers”

    Sarr, La Plus Secrète Mémoire des hommes

    The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud. Other Press. Dedicated to Yambo Ouologuem.

    via NYR

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  • A perpetual fluidity

    “the self is not a fixity but a perpetual fluidity, reshaped by every experience we have: every love and every loss, every person we meet, every place we visit, and every book we read. And so it must be: “A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living,” Virginia Woolf wrote” via Popova.

    We must exercise and train in order to continue to progress, stay limber, exceed our limits, grow, reflect, and learn how to be fluid.

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    “… Now, under surveillance,

    he needed to listen for words I couldn’t vocalize,
    being a shade—to intuit what I could visualize

    but not describe, and have faith I was there.”

    Eurydice, Adrienne Su

  • It means something

    “You have a place, it means something” – The Diplomat

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  • AG2023_1078262a or as if magnets cleared the air

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    When you appeared it was as if
    magnets cleared the air    .
    I had never seen that smile before
    or your hair, flying silver. Someone
    waving goodbye, she was silver, too.
    Of course you didn’t see me.
    I called softly so you could choose
    not to answer—then called again.
    You turned in the light, your eyes
    seeking your name.

    Happenstance, Rita Dove

  • AG2023_1078278a or Byen travay pa di byen touche

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    Yonamine‘s “It’s expensive to be poor”

    Byen travay, byen swe
    pa di byen touche
    sou latè beni.

    Good work, good sweat
    doesn’t mean good pay
    on this blessed earth,
    on this blessed earth.

    Lavi Vye Nèg

  • AG2023_1066778a or who pays any attention to the syntax of things

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    since feeling is first
    who pays any attention 
    to the syntax of things
    will never wholly kiss you;

    wholly to be a fool
    while Spring is in the world

    my blood approves,
    and kisses are a better fate 
    than wisdom
    lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry
    —the best gesture of my brain is less than
    your eyelids’ flutter which says

    we are for each other: then
    laugh, leaning back in my arms
    for life’s not a paragraph

    And death i think is no parenthesis

    E. E. Cummings

    All For Us (from the HBO Original Series Euphoria), Labrinth · Zendaya

  • AG2023_1078001a or always here

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    “Here (only here) is freedom: always here
    […]
    (eternity being so sans until
    twice i have lived forever in a smile)

    “unlove’s the heavenless hell…” By E. E. Cummings

    Humanity i love you

    because you would rather black the boots of

    success than enquire whose soul dangles from his

    watch-chain which would be embarrassing for both

    parties and because you

    unflinchingly applaud all

    songs containing the words country home and

    mother when sung at the old howard

    Humanity i love you because

    when you’re hard up you pawn your

    intelligence to buy a drink and when

    you’re flush pride keeps

    you from the pawn shop and

    because you are continually committing

    nuisances but more

    especially in your own house

    Humanity i love you because you

    are perpetually putting the secret of

    life in your pants and forgetting

    it’s there and sitting down

    on it

    and because you are

    forever making poems in the lap

    of death Humanity

    i hate you

    –E. E. Cummings