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Category: landscape

  • AG2026_1178190a or to all to use

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    ‘Forever is one thing born from another; life is given to none to own, but to all to use.’ Lucretius
    via Dead and Alive: Essays, Zadie Smith

  • What’s just beyond

    Charlayne Hunter-Gault interviewed Toni Morrison, 1987.

    Being on the surface of a spherical planet, we find flatness conflates scale, distance, and time. Our relations to what is just beyond are illusionary, continually unfolding, and expansive. The horizon holds the counterpart to our here–real, ongoing, and seemingly determined. From there will emerge all utopian promises for justice, imaginaries for the enrichment of humanity, fully formed structures in the support a life, good fortune, and knowledge, and futures to be written. As we belong there, in equal parts to the here we find ourselves; we move about and maneuver in ways to reach for the enchanted from the complement realm.

  • La stratégie marron

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    Résister en secret : la stratégie des esclaves marrons (Haiti Inter)

    Serpentine Reader.

  • Voyage autour de ma chambre

    A Journey around my Room (Voyage autour de ma chambre) by Xavier de Maistre. via

    • French title: Voyage autour de ma chambre
    • Written 1790, first published in 1795
    • The French text of Voyage autour de ma chambre is available online
    • Translated by Stephen Sartarelli
    • Published in Voyage around my Room: Selected Works of Xavier de Maistre, which includes an Introduction by Richard Howard, Joseph de Maistre’s 1811 Preface, as well as two other works by Xavier de Maistre:
      • Nocturnal Expedition around my Room (see our review)
      • The Leper of the City of Aosta (see our review)
    • The new UK edition (Hesperus, 2004) was translated by Andrew Brown
    • The new UK edition has a Foreword by Alain de Botton
    <IDENT chambre>
    <IDENT_AUTEURS maistrex>
    <IDENT_COPISTES mannonij>
    <ARCHIVE http://www.abu.org/>
    <VERSION 2>
    <DROITS 0>
    <TITRE Voyage autour de ma chambre (1794)>
    <GENRE prose>
    <AUTEUR de Maistre, Xavier>
    <COPISTE Julien Mannoni (mannoni@worldnet.fr)>
    <NOTESPROD>
    EDITION 1839, orthographe respectée

    http://abu.cnam.fr/

    Public Domain Review (2017).

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    Vittorio Fortunati, “Du haut de leurs mansardes : le motif de l’isolement chez Baudelaire et Xavier de Maistre”, Revue italienne d’études françaises [Online], 14 | 2024, Online since 15 November 2024, connection on 17 February 2026. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/rief/13188; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/12oyy

    Jacques Rancière, Courts Voyages au pays du peuple, 1990.

  • AG2026_1144883a or sit and consider

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    She prayed to Saint Rose of Lima to grant her that rarest of gifts: to become invisible.

    instead I sit and I consider opera

    In his heart the feelings were clear

    (AP)

  • AG2026_1089037a or Till I reach the shade

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    I seek and desire, 
    Even as the wind 
    That travels the plain 
    And stirs in the bloom 
    Of the apple-tree. 

    I wander through life, 
    With the searching mind 
    That is never at rest, 
    Till I reach the shade 
    Of my lover’s door.

    [I seek and desire], Sappho, translated from the ancient Greek by Bliss Carman

  • AG2026_1144841a or let slip the ache

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    In company
    we spoke in code,
    in inklings
    without ink.
    Our eyes alone
    let slip the ache—
    like phantom scribbles on
    the heart’s blank page.

    [In company], Ulayya bint al-Mahdi, translated from the Arabic by Yasmine Seale

    I keep his name
    from everyone, but to my soul
    I babble on and on
    about this crazy passion.
    How I long
    for some deserted place
    where I could shout his name!

    [I keep his name], Ulayya bint al-Mahdi, translated from the Arabic by Yasmine Seale

  • American Smooth

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    Howard Erker, Bobby Seale Checks Food Bags, March 31, 1972. Oakland Museum of California.

    Black Community Survival Conference Rally at Greenman Field, March 28-31, 1972. KPIX Eyewitness News.

    “To serve the people”, Philly Partisan, 2017.

    We were dancing—it must have
    been a foxtrot or a waltz,
    something romantic but
    requiring restraint,
    rise and fall, precise
    execution as we moved

    American Smooth, Rita Dove