An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian [whose] role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are – James Baldwin
Prose
Narrative writings: essays, reviews, polemics, short stories, etc
Philosophy
We say to ‘rise’ to fame and to ‘fall’ in love. Correction. We fall in fame and we rise to love.
Laughs
The venerated veal reared to reveal a real venereal ordeal.
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A poet is a lazy philosopher – K. Choi, lazy poet
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The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. – Derek Walcott
Philosophy
⇒ …but I don’t want to be a cynical asshole ⇒
…but I don’t want to be a naive idiot ⇒
Activism
Phallacy
Phallacy (m) – A fallacy caused by phallogocentric contemplation, or, in colloquial terms, thinking with one’s dick
Laughs
The Gods are Back
The gods are back, companions. Right now they have just entered this life; but the words that revoke them, whispered underneath the words that reveal them, have also appeared that we might suffer together. – René Char
Philosophy
Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life — Terry Pratchett
Laughs
Well, if it’s a choice between my personal interest and the good of my country, how can I waver? No one shall say Ninotchka was a bad Russian. – Ernst Lubitsch, Ninotchka
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For maggots, happiness is just around the coroner
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Disclaimer
Disclaimer for my new book: Don’t read while driving, operating heavy machinery or when you suffer from incontinence.
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