[quoth] jonathan swift: gulliver's travels

We next went to the school of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country.
The first project was to shorten discourse by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles; because in reality all things imaginable are but nouns.
The other, was a scheme for entirely abolishing all words whatsoever: And this was urged as great advantage in point of health as well as brevity. For, it is plain, that every word we speak is in some degree a diminution of our lungs by corrosion; and consequently contributes to the shortening of our lives.

[quoth] laurent tailhade

From the aestheticization of violence to the definition of aesthetics as violence, the sentiment is summed up in Laurent Tailhade's reputed quip, after Auguste Vaillant's bombing of the Chamber of Deputies in 1893:

Qu'importent les victimes, si le geste est beau? [What do the victims matter, so long as the gesture is beautiful?] (quoted from, via j)

[quoth] michelangelo buonarroti: rime 247

Caro m’è ’l sonno, e più l’esser di sasso, mentre che ’l danno e la vergogna dura; non veder, non sentir m’è gran ventura; però non mi destar, deh, parla basso.

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Welcome is sleep, more welcome the sleep of stone Whilst crime and shame continue in the land; My happy fortune, not to see or hear; Waken me not - in mercy, whisper low.

[quoth] ambrose bierce: the devil's dictionary

Siren, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.

[quoth] paul celan

Un subingener de suflete. Ein Seelen-Unteringenieur.

[quoth] paul celan: gegenlicht (in: mikrolithen sind's, steinchen)

Gegenlicht

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Ein plötzlicher Windstoß raffte das Gesicht weg und enthüllte den Schleier

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Sie fochten.
Und während sie fochten, häufte sich der Sand der Wüste, in der sie standen, am Rand ihrer Füße, langsam, Sandkorn um Sandkorn, und kletterte an ihnen hoch, Korn für Korn kletterte der Wüstensand an ihnen hoch. Sie fochten weiter. Der Sand kleidete ihre Füße ein, ihre Beine, ihre Knie, ihre Schenkel. Sie hielten nicht inne. Der Sand, der Sand der Wüste aber setzte sein Werk fort. Schon bedeckte er ihre Hüften, ihre Brüste, schon zog er das (Sand)hemd über ihre Schulter.
Und ein zweites, drittes und tausendstes Hemd......
Und begann von neuem: Sandschuh, Sandstrumpf, Sandhemd

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Nur ihre Klingen blieben blank und taten einander so wehe, daß den Sekundanten die Herzen stillstanden.

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[quoth] friedrich nietzsche: dionysos-dithyramben / also sprach zarathustra

Die Wüste wächst: wehe dem, der Wüsten birgt!

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The deserts grow: woe him who doth them hide!

[quoth] first epistle of the corinthians 13:12

βλεπομεν γαρ αρτι δι εσοπτρου εν αινιγματι

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For now we see through a glass, darkly.

[quoth] antonin artaud: recherche de la fécalité

Il y a dans l’être
quelque chose de particulièrement tentant pour l’homme
et ce quelque chose est justement
LE CACA.

There is in being
something particularly tempting for man
and this something is none other than
CACA.

[quoth] burroughs: the discipline of de

DE is a way of doing. It is a way of doing everything you do. DE simply means doing whatever you do in the easiest most relaxed way you can manage which is also the quickest and most efficient way as you will find as you advance in DE. You can start right now tidying up your flat, moving furniture or books, washing dishes, making tea, sorting papers. Consider the weight of objects exactly how much force is needed to get the object from here to there. Consider its shape and texture and function where exactly does it belong. Use just the amount of force necessary to get the object from here to there. Don't fumble jerk grab an object. Drop cool possessive fingers onto it like a gentle old cop making a soft arrest. Guide a dustpan lightly to the floor as if you were landing a plane. When you touch an object weigh it with your fingers feel your fingers in the object the skin blood muscles tendons of your hand and arm. Consider these extensions of yourself as precision instruments to perform every movement smoothly and well. Handle ovjects with consideration and they will show you all their little tricks. Don't tug or pull at a zipper. Guide the little metal teeth smoothly along feeling the sinuous ripples of cloth and flexible metals. Replacing the cap on a tube of tooth paste... (and this should always be done at once few things are worse than an uncapped tube maladroitly squeezed twisting up out of the bathroom glass drooling paste unless it be a tube with a cap barbarously forced on all askew against the threads). Replacing the cap let the very tips of your fingers protrude beyond the cap contacting the end of the tube guiding the cap into place. Using your finger tips as a landing gear will enable you to drop any light object silently and surely into its place. Remember every object has its place. If you don't find that place and put that thing there it will jump out at you and trip you or rap you painfully across the knuckles. It will nudge you and clutch at you and get in your way. Often such objects belong in the wastebasket but often it's just that they are out of place. Learn to place an object firmly and quietly in its place and do not let your fingers move that object as they leave it there. When you put down a cup separate your fingers cleanly from the cup. Do not let them catch in the handle and if they do repeat movement until fingers separate clean. If you don't catch that nervous finger that won't let go of that handle you may twitch hot tea across the Duchess. Never let a poorly executed sequence pass. If you throw a match at a wastebasket and miss get it right up and put that match in the wastebasket. If you habe time repeat the cast that failed. There is always a reason for missing a toss. Repeat toss and you will find it. If you rap your knuckles against a window jamb or door, if you brush your leg against a desk or a bed, if you catch your feet in the curled-up corner of a rug, or strike a toe against a desk or chair go back and repeat the sequence.

[quoth] pierre albert-birot: larountala

LE GUILLOTINÉ

Ma tête ma tête ma tête
Euh---euh---euh
Non non non non non
Ouh---ouh---ouh
Ma tê---------te

[quoth] jean-paul sartre: la nausée

Nous en avions une peur horrible parce que nous sentions qu'il était seul.

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We were terribly afraid of him because we sensed that he was alone.

[diktionær] scopophobia

the fear of being seen and being stared at.

[quoth] friedrich nietzsche: klage der ariadne

Muss man sich nicht erst hassen, wenn man sich lieben soll?

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Must one first not hate oneself, if one is to love oneself?

[quoth] haruki murakami: a wild sheep chase

Layers of fine sand had accumulated on the wooden shutters of the high, narrow double-hung windows. Rain had fixed the sand into configurations onto which another layer of sand had been blown, to be fixed in place by yet new rain.

[quoth] haruki murakami: a wild sheep chase

The light of morning decomposes everything.

[zwischenablage] halle; rot

[quoth] burroughs: cities of the red night

A shout from Jerry while we were eating brought us all to the rail, where we witnessed a wondrous sight known as the green flash, which occurs a moment after sunset. The whole western sky lit up a brilliant luminous green.

[quoth] under byen: spindelvævssind

Jeg ligger så godt - du må ikke hjælpe mig Du må ikke flytte mig - jeg ligger så godt

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I lie comfortably - you must not help me You must not move me - I lie so comfortably