July 2011
18 posts
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Even for Cezánne, painting still life meant spoiled fruit.
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“But if not, I want
to remind you
]and beautiful times...”
– Sappho, fragment translated by Anne Carson (adapted from watercolournights)
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“Tumble home. It’s a shipbuilding term I learned from Warren. It’s...”
– from “Tumble Home,” by Amy Hempel
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“What can I say about myself today? That I am the last to close a window when it...”
– from Amy Hempel’s “Tumble Home”
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“When the fire goes out, you’ll start feeling the cold. You’ll wake...”
– from Haruki Murakami’s “Landscape With Flatiron”
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“Aren’t we all, I thought, somebody’s harvest?”
– from Amy Hempel’s short story, “The Harvest”
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“I told him about the way they get to know you. Not the way people do, the way...”
– from Amy Hempel’s short story, “The Dog of the Marriage”
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“Be patient toward all
that is unresolved
in your heart
and try to love
the...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Are you wondering why a person who is already small would want to make herself...”
– from “Tumble Home” by Amy Hempel
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“Here, in the French grammar, there is no telling why, Big Guy has written,...”
– from “The Most Girl Part of You” by Amy Hempel
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“Tell me things I won’t mind forgetting,” she said. “Make it...”
– from “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried” by Amy Hempel
“And the too much of my speaking:
heaped up round the little
crystal dressed in...”
– Paul Celan, from “Below,” trans. Michael Hamburger (via proustitute)
