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“Marxism has always claimed that being can determine consciousness precisely to determine being anew.’”
“Consciousness is no longer the mere product of social being but is at once a condition of its practical existence and, further, one of its central productive forces.
Raymond Williams
The day, with all its pain ahead, is yours.
The ceaseless creasing of the mourning sea,
the fluttering gamboge cedar leaves allegro
Derek Walcott
Some people, born inside out, are prone to unravelling.
Among our vestigial traits: coccyx, wisdom tooth, death.
Every day, piecemeal evolution. Soon I will be pure wonder.
You step into the river of your history, wrinkle, step out.
Fruit is the fruit of the tree; rot is the fruit of the fruit.
Annelyse Gelman, Conch
lo and behold— another world,
a world of milder currencies, inverted cumulus and azure, verticals and shade, the velvets of a deep interior and turns
of coy comestibility—
in short, another life, with footholds made for memory.
Heather McHugh
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” Martin Luther King
“…je m’endormis, prêt à retrouver dans mon sommeil la transfiguration hallucinée des événements de la nuit, à me réveiller dans un monde qui paraîtrait inaltéré au premier regard, mais où tout, sous la surface des choses, sous la peau du temps, aurait changé à jamais.
Tels furent, après ma soirée dans la toile de l’Araignée, mes premiers pas sur le cercle de solitude où glissaient Le Labyrinthe de l’inhumain et T.C. Elimane.”
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
The Psychosocial Foundation Presents: On Love, with Anahid Nersessian and Ronjaunee Chatterjee, (032023).
“To not make sound, to be sound
To not have language, to echo, to plan language
To be the stream of words
To not be sad for
To not have those to be sad for
To not eat alone”
Dorothea Lasky, To be the thing
“She wondered if he suffered from these same recollections, and if so, what he did with them.” (ZS)
“Chercher à s’anéantir dans son œuvre n’est pas toujours un signe d’humilité. Même le désir du néant peut être une vanité…”
“Je le laissai et allai provoquer la nuit parisienne, son incandescence, ses flots de bière, sa joie pure, ses rires purs, sa drogue dure, ses illusions d’habiter l’éternité ou l’instant.”
The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
“I tasted—careless—then—
I did not know the Wine
Came once a World—”
One Year ago—jots what? (296), Emily Dickinson
Untitled (Field Guide; “what’s not found at once, but lies within something of another nature”) ii, 2023. Graphite, colored pencil, gesso, enamel paint, gouache, collage, pigment print on paper. 75 x 54 cm
Denise Levertov, “Pleasures”. (I like to find/ what’s not found / at once, but lies …)
Hard luck and trouble
Been my only friend
I’ve been on my own
Ever since I was ten
[…]
You know wine and women
Is all I crave
A big legged woman
Gonna carry me to my grave
[…]
[Chorus]
Born under a bad sign
I’ve been down since I began to crawl
If it wasn’t for bad luck
I tell ya, I wouldn’t have no luck at all
[Outro]
Yeah, I’m a bad luck boy
Been havin’ bad luck all of my days, yes