March 2012
8 posts
“Franz Kafka is Dead
He died in a tree from which he wouldn’t come down. “Come...”
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
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February 2012
158 posts
Definition: syzygy
mythologyofblue:
syz·y·gy/ˈsizijē/
Noun: A conjunction or opposition, esp. of the moon with the sun.
A pair of connected or corresponding things.
wordporn:
“The world’s most difficult word to translate has been identified as “ilunga” from the Tshiluba language spoken in south-eastern DR Congo. It came top of a list drawn up in consultation with 1,000 linguists. Ilunga means “a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time”. It seems straightforward enough, but the 1,000...
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“I don’t want to know that you are fond of me. If I did, how could I, fool...”
– Franz Kafka, (from a letter to Felice)
“I hoped for nothing. And yet I lived in expectation.”
– Stanisław Lem
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“The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to...”
– Franz Kafka
“Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do...”
– W.S. Merwin, Separation
