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  • AG2023_1066708a

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    “Keep stealing, my friends! From life for fiction, and from fiction for life.” (ZS)

  • AG2023_1880845a or we profess to believe

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    “As long as we profess to believe … these moments of grace” (ZS)

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    Shot with whatever 2018 phone I had. Miami Beach, near ArtCenter South Florida.

    “… in times like these

    to have you listen at all, it’s necessary

    to talk about trees.”

    Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times are These

  • foolish in its objectives but never in its choices

    My body, now that we will not be traveling together much longer
    I begin to feel a new tenderness toward you, very raw and unfamiliar,
    like what I remember of love when I was young —

    love that was so often foolish in its objectives
    but never in its choices, its intensities
    Too much demanded in advance, too much that could not be promised —

    As though it were that soul, my hand moves over you cautiously,

    not wishing to give offense
    but eager, finally, to achieve expression as substance:

    it is not the earth I will miss,
    it is you I will miss.

    CROSSROADS by Louise Glück via The Marginalian

  • AG2023_1077767a or still lacking a capacity

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    “The oceanic feeling for others. She was still beautiful. And still a stranger to vanity, still lacking any capacity for rage.” (ZS)

  • a time to feel the light

    “Before dawn, I buy a coffee at Tom’s Newsstand,

    then sit with your big Petit Larousse, La Fontaine,

    and my ardor. September is a time to feel the light,

    write, scratch out, write, nap, walk, begin again.”

    Henri Cole, 107 Water Street

    AG2023_1066398b
    AG2023_1066398b or a September moment

    lordly lantern

    tall neon doyen

    dear to

    orated tenderly on art or a trend

    learned (Eden Tyndale Lear Eeyore Yoda Erato Leander Leda Troy Dante Donatella Leontyne)

    ornately

    real

    annealed oleander

    lonely eye

    -Derrick Austin, André Leon Talley

  • a dignity in need of constant vigilance and protection

    “press mischievously upon the scale”

    “some knowledge is beyond language”

    “a dignity hard won: a dignity in need of constant vigilance and protection” (Zadie Smith, The Fraud)

    https://wanlingcheng.tumblr.com/post/678030180403544064/%E7%B6%93%E5%85%B8%E8%80%81%E7%89%87%E5%A0%B1%E6%98%A5%E5%85%89%E4%B9%8D%E6%B4%A9-happytogether-%E6%88%91%E6%81%A8%E6%88%91%E6%84%9B%E4%BD%A0

    [Outro]
    ‘Cause it’s mean, so mean
    Ya kna’mean?
    It’s mean, it’s so mean
    Yeah, I know you know what I mean
    ‘Said it’s mean, so mean
    Ya kna’mean?
    It’s mean, it’s so mean
    I know you know what I mean

    Youlogy · Shabazz Palaces

  • AG2023_1077735a or meaning knows

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    I now replace desire
    with meaning.
    Instead of saying, I want you, I say,
    there is meaning between us.
    Meaning can swim, has taken lessons from the river
    of itself. Desire is air. One puncture
    above a black lake and she lies flat.
    I now replace intensity with meaning.
    One is a black hole of boundless appetite, a false womb,
    another is a sentence.
    […]
    Meaning knows …

    Megan Fernandes, Friends with No Benefits

    “The film, like life itself, had minimal

    plot and extraordinary beauty.

    The film, like life itself, was

    slow and maniacal.”

    Jennifer Bartlett, From “The Hindrances of a Householder”