I always feel myself being thrust back into loneliness when someone tells me it’s cold on a hot day. It isn’t good to talk so much about the weather — weather is a highly personal matter, and communication on the subject inevitably fails.
Yoko Tawada, from ‘Memoirs of a Polar Bear’, tr. Susan Bernofsky
Yoko Tawada, from ‘Memoirs of a Polar Bear’, tr. Susan Bernofsky
“Speak against unconscious oppression,
Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, speak against bonds.”
― Ezra Pound
Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, speak against bonds.”
― Ezra Pound