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clarice lispector why this world: a biography of clarice lispector \\ fernando pessoa i have more souls than one: i see boats moving (tr. jonathan griffin)

kofi

"In villages God does not live..", Joseph Brodsky (tr George L. Kline)

Pages from a scrapbook made around 1883 by Minnie C. Woodbury Goodwin

From the collection of Mandy (Paper of the Past), who posts all sorts of delicious scrapbooks and ephemera on Instagram and here

The books one writes - past and present and future - are they not trying to say the same thing: Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life? What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance, if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.

Yiyun Li, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

à demi-mots

pencils,

21 × 29,7

“Nobody can claim that humanity is in the process of decay without having observed the same putrid symptoms in himself. Nobody can say that humanity is evil without he himself having been part of evil deeds. There is no such thing as unshackled observation. He who lives is the life-long prisoner of humanity and contributes, willingly or unwillingly, to an increase or decrease of the human inventory of happiness and misfortune, greatness and humiliation, hope and despondence […] the fate of humanity is at stake everywhere and at all times, and the responsibility of one life for another is immeasurable.”

— Stig Dagerman, “Do We Have Faith in Humanity?” (trans. Lo Dagerman & Max Levy)

BOYGENIUS at the Hollywood Bowl | Oct. 31, 2023 (x)

Backstage at Margiela, S/S 1992.

Ph. Marina Faust

Makeup. Inge Grognard

“At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? / And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”

— Ilya Kaminsky, from “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck,” Deaf Republic

Alexander McQueen FW21 by Sarah Burton / Tracey Emin, “I was too young to be carrying your Ashes”, 2017-18.

From Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish

i hope this is alright for me to add, but this poem references a line from one of hitler's speeches ordering the genocide of polish jews. at the end of the speech, he justified the genocide by saying "who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the armenians?" in a very literal way, genocides are interconnected and used to justify one another. after all, the holocaust was partially modeled after the united states' genocide of indigenous people. this is why it is so important to remember the victims of all genocides across history, and why it is so important for oppressed peoples to stand together in solidarity.

June Gehringer, “EARTH IS AN ANAGRAM FOR HEART, U FUCKING IDIOTS”

[Text ID: “I don’t want to talk about it. / I want to lie in what little grass remains / and try to fit your heart inside of mine.”]

"I'm going to keep you inside me, forever. I can't bear to be forgotten by any more people."

After Life (1998) dir. Hirokazu Kore'eda

I think about this poem more than I should.

Ada Limón, The Carrying.