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Forget that Ramadan is here — today
Autumn has come: "Bring wine," the meadows say.
Our ancient sage's fatwa's in agreement:
"Drink goblets filled with flowing wine, and pay
No heed to sermons' cant." Come, pour the wine
That fills my soul with wonder and dismay —
The man who doesn't drink in autumn's not
A man but some ferocious beast of prey
I'd give the world's wealth for a drop of wine —
I'd give both worlds, and throw in Judgment Day.
Mastureh Kurdi, Untitled, from The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women, ed. Dick Davis
Forget that Ramadan is here — today
Autumn has come: "Bring wine," the meadows say.
Our ancient sage's fatwa's in agreement:
"Drink goblets filled with flowing wine, and pay
No heed to sermons' cant." Come, pour the wine
That fills my soul with wonder and dismay —
The man who doesn't drink in autumn's not
A man but some ferocious beast of prey
I'd give the world's wealth for a drop of wine —
I'd give both worlds, and throw in Judgment Day.
Mastureh Kurdi, Untitled, from The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women, ed. Dick Davis
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Carlos Amorales & Klangforum Wien
Erased Symphony
2013
“Erased Symphony is based on the idea that existing cultural narratives are subject to erasure, whereby the focus is not only on evident extinction but also processes of disappearance, revaluation, densification, corrosion, etc. in the telling of national, continental, in this case Western, and hegemonial (hi)stories. In Erased Symphony the Emperor Waltz by Strauss undergoes a gradual process of erasure, albeit not the original version is modified but Arnold Schönberg’s transcription of the waltz from 1925 for flute, clarinet, string quartet, and piano. This, in turn, leads to a densification in the complexity and an overlap of historical and contemporary (cultural, political, social) narratives.”
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Erased Symphony
2013
“Erased Symphony is based on the idea that existing cultural narratives are subject to erasure, whereby the focus is not only on evident extinction but also processes of disappearance, revaluation, densification, corrosion, etc. in the telling of national, continental, in this case Western, and hegemonial (hi)stories. In Erased Symphony the Emperor Waltz by Strauss undergoes a gradual process of erasure, albeit not the original version is modified but Arnold Schönberg’s transcription of the waltz from 1925 for flute, clarinet, string quartet, and piano. This, in turn, leads to a densification in the complexity and an overlap of historical and contemporary (cultural, political, social) narratives.”
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Today there is deep in you a not long dried-up spring, though how quickly it fills with tears.
Today there is deep in you a not long abandoned airfield, though how quickly it's overgrown.
You'll have to go on foot now, your spring of grief within.
But you stand frozen while in front of you cockroaches cross the street moving from butcher to baker.
Vladimír Holan, Today There Is…, from Selected poems by Vladimír Holan, Penguin modern European poetry, trans. Jarmila and Ian Milner
Today there is deep in you a not long abandoned airfield, though how quickly it's overgrown.
You'll have to go on foot now, your spring of grief within.
But you stand frozen while in front of you cockroaches cross the street moving from butcher to baker.
Vladimír Holan, Today There Is…, from Selected poems by Vladimír Holan, Penguin modern European poetry, trans. Jarmila and Ian Milner
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"An extraordinary lucidity, frosty and crisp in the blackness, but paralysed; lodged in some recess of the universe that clutches it like a snare. A wave of nausea is accompanied by a peculiarly insinuating headache, as if thought itself were copulating unreservedly with suffering. A damp coldness, close to fog, creeps through the open window. I laugh, delighted at the fate that has turned me into a reptile. The metallic hardness of intellect seems like a cutting instrument in my hand; the detached fragment from a machine tool, or an abattoir, seeking out the terminal sense it was always refused."
— Nick Land, The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism
— Nick Land, The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism
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