Quotes 2017 #14

"I hesitated some time, not knowing whether to open these memoirs at the beginning or at the end, i.e., whether to start with my birth or with my death."

Machado de Assis, Epitaph of a Small Winner (trans. by William Grossman)

Quotes 2017 #13

"There will soon be nothing more than self-communicating zombies, whose lone umbilical relay will be their own feedback image - electronic avatars of dead shadows who, beyond death and the river Styx, will wander, perpetually passing their time retelling their own story."

Jean Baudrillard, Telemorphosis. (Drew Burk trans.)

Quotes 2017 #12

"The center of Sophia has not changed in seven thousand years. Neolithic excavations say as much: Sophia is the only European city that has stubbornly preserved its heart for so many millenia."

Julia Kristeva, Interviews.

This makes me want to go to Sophia... 

Quotes 2017 #11

"Ah, I do like people who can get angry. Kraus gets angry on the slightest pretext. That is so beautiful, so humorous, so noble."

Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten.

「週刊朝日」１月２０日号

「週刊朝日」１月２０日号の「今週の一冊」コーナーに長めの書評を書きました。フランスを拠点に活躍する仲野麻紀さんの『旅する音楽　サックス奏者と音の経験』（せりか書房）について。

「そしてすべての音楽は他の音楽に誘いをかけ、匂いをかぎ、一緒に踊りたがっている。野生動物のように。彼女の音の旅はつづく。」

今年もKyのツアーを楽しみにしてます！

「ミて」１３７号

新井高子さん編集の詩の季刊誌「ミて」１３７号に５９行の詩「青空ジュークボックス」を寄稿しました。

　しんとした青空は透明な心のすみか
　登れば登るほど昔の心に近づく。

ぜひ読んでみてね。

Quotes 2017 #10

"To say goodbye, and to have it said to me, is terrible. At such moments something gives human life a shake, and one feels vividly how nothing one is."

Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten.

この２番めのセンテンスのshakeをshapeに変えてみるのもおもしろい。何にせよヴァルザー最高！