Category: language

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    The care with which […] the green is wrong and the white is wrong, the care with which there is […] plenty of breathing. The care with which there is incredible justice and likeness, all this makes a magnificent asparagus, and also a fountain.

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    pale—with beauty aghast—

    […]

    in space blue—rides she away from mine chest—

    illumined strangely


    Claude McRay [i.e. McKay] and Baroness v. Freytag [i.e. Von Freytag-Loringhoven] (LOC)
  • Thought, sunshine, flowers

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    Thought, sunshine, flowers: they wanted intangible as well as tangible goods, pleasures as well as necessities, and the time to pursue them, the time to have an inner life and freedom to roam the outer world.

    Orwell’s Roses, Rebecca Solnit
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    To read – Claire-Louise Bennett’s “Checkout 19” (Riverhead), “a novel that is deliberate in its construction, down to the individual word, and yet aggressively resistant to definition”, via newyorker.


    Shivering Soldier, Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), 2017.

  • AG2022_2100672a or sometimes in the studio

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    … he was a basket full of different kinds of strange (James S. A. Corey).

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    A garden offers the opposite of the disembodied uncertainties of writing.

    […]

    In an age of lies and illusions, the garden is one way to ground yourself in the realm of the processes of growth and the passage of time, the rules of physics, meteorology, hydrology, and biology, and the realms of the senses.

    Rebecca Solnit, Orwell’s Roses
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    Colm Tóibín on Parallel Mothers, by Pedro Almodóvar. I will implement and attend my own Almodóvar festival soon. Anthony Lane‘s review.