{"id":18228,"date":"2026-04-15T23:28:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dig.thenextfewhours.com\/blog\/?p=18228"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:28:07","slug":"contemplate-simple-pretexts-for-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dig.thenextfewhours.com\/blog\/?p=18228","title":{"rendered":"Contemplate simple pretexts for happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Derek Guy on pantalones chinos<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00ab Quand une personne a vraiment atteint la capacit\u00e9 de cr\u00e9er, son unique devoir est de manifester cette puissance \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9cart des attentes et des jugements. \u00bb (Forough Farrokhz\u00e2d<\/strong> (1935-1967))
via Librarie Petite Egypte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Perhaps life is a choked moment where my gaze
annihilates itself inside in the pupils of your eyes\u2014
?????I will mingle that sensation with my grasp
?????of the moon and comprehension of darkness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a room the size of loneliness,
my heart’s the size of love.
It contemplates its simple pretexts for happiness:
the beauty of the flowers’ wilting in a vase,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the sapling you planted in our garden,
and the canaries’ song\u2014the size of a window.<\/p>\nReborn<\/a>, Forugh Farrokhzad. Translated By Sholeh Wolp\u00e9<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Behind his project lay the understanding that social life<\/mark> is “a seamless web, a single inconceivable and transindividual process, in which there is no need to invent ways of linking<\/mark> language events and social upheavals or economic contradictions because on that level they were never separate from one another<\/mark>” Benjamin Kunkel on Fredric Jameson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Derek Guy on pantalones chinos. \u00ab Quand une personne a vraiment atteint la capacit\u00e9 de cr\u00e9er, son unique devoir est de manifester cette puissance \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9cart des attentes et des jugements. \u00bb (Forough Farrokhz\u00e2d (1935-1967)) via Librarie Petite Egypte Perhaps life is a choked moment where my gazeannihilates itself inside in the pupils of your… Continue reading Contemplate simple pretexts for happiness<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,390],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape","category-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16278,"url":"https:\/\/dig.thenextfewhours.com\/blog\/?p=16278","url_meta":{"origin":18228,"position":0},"title":"comprend sans effort le langage des fleurs et des choses muettes","author":"dig","date":"January 5, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00c9l\u00e9vation Au-dessus des \u00e9tangs, au-dessus des vall\u00e9es,Des montagnes, des bois, des nuages, des mers,Par del\u00e0 le soleil, par del\u00e0 les \u00e9thers,Par del\u00e0 les confins des sph\u00e8res \u00e9toil\u00e9es, Mon esprit, tu te meus avec agilit\u00e9,Et, comme un bon nageur qui se p\u00e2me dans l'onde,Tu sillonnes gaiement l\u2019immensit\u00e9 profondeAvec une indicible et\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "language"","block_context":{"text":"language","link":"https:\/\/dig.thenextfewhours.com\/blog\/?cat=390"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3279,"url":"https:\/\/dig.thenextfewhours.com\/blog\/?p=3279","url_meta":{"origin":18228,"position":1},"title":"CR\u00c9ATION ET CONTRE-POUVOIRS","author":"dig","date":"March 30, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"CR\u00c9ATION ET CONTRE-POUVOIRS 7th Transcultural Forum of Contemporary Art Port-au-Prince, Haiti April 2 to April 11th, 2015 Le Forum c'est 10 jours de conf\u00e9rences, de projections, de d\u00e9bat, d'expositions de peinture, de sculpture, de photographie, de multim\u00e9dia ainsi que des performances, des visites guid\u00e9es et des ateliers de cr\u00e9ation. 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