You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
“That’s all man is: a creature you can feel pity for.”
“So it’s death, then, and nothing more, that is the disappointing truth of every life?”
The Most Secret Memory of Men: A Novel, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated from French by Lara Vergnaud
“The name says something about the being” Sarr
“Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul” Kandinsky via Popova.
Qué vanidad imaginar
que puedo darte todo, el amor y la dicha,
itinerarios, música, juguetes.
What vanity to imagine
I can give you everything, love and bliss,
Itineraries, music, toys.
Julio Cortázar, Bolero.
“To truly see my country by looking at it in the mirror of another country.” Sarr
To truly see A by looking at it in the mirror of another A (objectively, B).
Human :: plants
“allusions to the infinite”
“remained embedded in the symbolic content of the place”
“We must be aware of the dangers which lie in our most generous wishes”
“a barely perceptible irregularity glimpsed intermittently through squinted eyes”
“beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate gratification”
“crimes are universally understood to be news to the extent that they offer, however erroneously, a story, a lesson, a high concept”
Didion
