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
Daydreaming of the alternate reality in which Yahoo successfully acquired Google in 1998 and Facebook in 2006, thereby destroying both companies due to their incompetence and ultimately saving the internet.
“It is September, a month the passing year brought back, the way asleep, I dream a city trapped beneath the broken, glittering stone in the sky.”
— Leslie Harrison, from “Farming the Moon”, Displacement
— Leslie Harrison, from “Farming the Moon”, Displacement