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Pink clouds & ashes

Pink clouds & ashes

from The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. About half-way between West-Egg and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it …

 

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965).  Prufrock and Other Observations.  1920. . S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma perciocche giammai di questo …

 

Paradoxe du musicien, part. 2

Paradoxe du musicien, part. 2

Donc ! Cela fait une semaine que j’ai arrêté de fumer, c’était le 11 septembre 2013, et à l’heure où j’écris, 10h44, nous sommes le …

 

Passe un papillon

Passe un papillon

par Fernando Pessoa. Passe un papillon devant moi Et pour la première fois dans l’univers je remarque Que les papillons n’ont pas plus de couleur que de mouvement, De …

 

You see, I want a lot

You see, I want a lot

. You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything: the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze of every step …

 

What is Cybernetics ?

What is Cybernetics ?

by G.T. Guilbaud, 1959. I. Notes for a dictionary entry If I were called upon to write the entry on « Cybernetics » for one of the bigger dictionaries, …

 

REAL – i – ABLE

REAL – i – ABLE

tam tam tam TAM, imperceptible motion liquid is aerophagic, is DRIFTING the Mayor of the Island is whistling a silly tune and the drums turn into this …

 

Nulle part nul

Nulle part nul

It’s not that I’ve suspended my choice of where to go, and that I would be « nowhere », suspended to an elusive moment of decision-making. I have …

 

Une flamme blanche

Une flamme blanche

(Graffiti à la Rue de l’Ancienne-Douane, Lausanne.) Be yourself, everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde Vénus Dans le feu, dans la passion, elle est là, fine balance, …

 

Untitled #23 –> 24 : le retour

Untitled #23 –> 24 : le retour

Photograph by Laura Letinsky, 2009. Le 24e hexagramme dans le Livre des Mutations. + http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php?lang=fr&l=Yijing&no=24