[ID: A page of a play. It reads as follows, "Theseus: Stop. Give me your hand. I am your friend. / Herakles: I fear to stain your clothes with blood. / Theseus: Stain them, I don't care." End text.]
Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson)
Antarctica.
Photograph by Herbert Ponting whilst on the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13.
the only people who understand literature are those who literally eat books. sorry. meaning does not exist until you devour it.
“When Anne Carson was a child she read a book called Lives of the Saints and loved it so much that she tried to eat the pages. It sounds like an apocryphal story, but yes, she says, ‘I did do that.’” — A Life in Writing
Unknown, Japanese oak (Quercus mongolica): tree branch with acorns. Watercolor.
“Also known as the ghost plant, Indian pipe, or corpse plant.
Unlike most plants, it is white and does not contain chlorophyll. Instead of generating energy from sunlight, it is parasitic, more specifically a myco-heterotroph. Its hosts are certain fungi that are mycorrhizal with trees, meaning it ultimately gets its energy from photosynthetic trees. Since it is not dependent on sunlight to grow, it can grow in very dark environments as in the understory of dense forest. It is often associated with beech trees.
The complex relationship that allows this plant to grow also makes propagation difficult.
The plant is sometimes completely white but commonly has black flecks and a pale pink coloration. Rare variants may have a deep red color.”
Man carrying a larger than himself icon of Virgin Mary, a dog on the roof… the all time classic Greek surrealism. Photo by Nikos Economopoulos.
Yang Yanmin, Travellers ride camels on Mingsha mountain after heavy snowfall, Dunhuang, China, 2018.
Kirsty O'Leary-Leeson “In Amidst”, “In Amidst II” and “Of Shadow”.
“A song, when being sung and played, acquires a body. It does this by taking over and briefly possessing existent bodies: the body of the double bass standing vertical while it’s being strummed, or the body of the mouth-organ cupped in a pair of hands hovering and pecking like a bird before a mouth, or the torso of the drummer as he rolls. Again and again the song takes over the body of the singer, and after a while the body of the circle of listeners who, as they listen and gesture to the song, are remembering and foreseeing.”
— John Berger, from ‘Some Notes About Song (for Yasmine Hamdan)’, Confabulations
Lauren Bacall photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1949.
Nicholas Ray, On dangerous ground (1951)
Storm hits the Ricasoli Breakwater Lighthouse in Valletta, Malta. 24 February, 2019, by Kurt Arrigo
— Sunrise, by Louise Glück
Gustav Janouch, Conversations with Kafka
