French Lessons #8

"C'est alors que me vint cette pensée : l'astringent, c'est le goût de la liberté." (Ryoko Sekiguchi)

French Lessons #7

"Rien n'approche du style de Lao-tseu. Lao-tseu vous lance un gros caillou. Puis il s'en va. Après il vous jette encore un caillou, puis il repart ; tous ces cailloux, quoique très durs, sont des fruits, mais naturellement le vieux sage bourru ne va pas les peler pour vous." (Henri Michaux)

Quotes 2017 #92

"There was nothing outside my window then but the charcoal silhouette of black trees against black sky. We were speeding toward Seattle, toward the ocean, toward people I'd never seen, land I'd never touched, water I'd never tasted. I meant to do that, taste the bay's water and see if the salt were a true thing."

Kim Barnes, Hungry for the World.

「水牛のように」４月号

「狂狗集」４の巻を発表しました。ぜひごらんあれ。

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French Lessons #6

"La plupart du temps, quand on me pose une question, même qui me touche, je m'aperçois que je n'ai strictement rien à dire." (Deleuze)

French Lessons #5

"Après chaque nuit nous sommes plus vides : nos mystères comme nos chagrins se sont écoulés dans nos songes." (Cioran)

Quotes 2017 #91

"By saying Simone Weil's life was both comic and terrible, I am not trying to reduce it, but mean to be paying her the highest tribute I can, short of calling her a saint, which I don't believe she was. Possibly I have a higher opinion of the comic and terrible than you do. To my way of thinking it includes her great courage and to call her anything less would be to see her as merely ordinary. She was certainly not ordinary."

Flannery O'Connor, from a letter on 30 September 1955.