Robert Alor
@robertalor.bsky.social
in the Buda hills
'I can't get over
how it all works in together' – J.
'I can't get over
how it all works in together' – J.
Music school, Buda
October 31, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Music school, Buda
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Buda
October 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Buda
'I’ve been a happy person because I had the opportunity all my life to do what I loved most: I played throughout my life'
Molnár-C. Pál (1894-1981)
'Beauty is the inexhaustible source of happiness for those who discover its whereabouts. It hides everywhere'
Molnár-C. Pál (1894-1981)
'Beauty is the inexhaustible source of happiness for those who discover its whereabouts. It hides everywhere'
October 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
'I’ve been a happy person because I had the opportunity all my life to do what I loved most: I played throughout my life'
Molnár-C. Pál (1894-1981)
'Beauty is the inexhaustible source of happiness for those who discover its whereabouts. It hides everywhere'
Molnár-C. Pál (1894-1981)
'Beauty is the inexhaustible source of happiness for those who discover its whereabouts. It hides everywhere'
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An evergreen for this day - youtube.com/watch?v=I1Pf...
Samuel Beckett | Interview for Swedish Television (1969) Nobel prize
YouTube video by ESKENION
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October 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
An evergreen for this day - youtube.com/watch?v=I1Pf...
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Had never occurred to me that all these French town names are in fact plurals (as are many Romanian town names..)
- Rickard, History of the French Language, p. 5
- Rickard, History of the French Language, p. 5
September 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Had never occurred to me that all these French town names are in fact plurals (as are many Romanian town names..)
- Rickard, History of the French Language, p. 5
- Rickard, History of the French Language, p. 5
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Trees in electric light, Jajce 1903, by Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka
July 26, 2023 at 3:16 PM
Trees in electric light, Jajce 1903, by Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka
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I consider myself fairly well read when it comes to 20th-c. anglophone poetry. Seldom do I stumble upon completely forgotten poets who were both consistently masterful in their craft and truly original in tone. Not in one or two poems—consistently. Broomell is one such poet.
September 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I consider myself fairly well read when it comes to 20th-c. anglophone poetry. Seldom do I stumble upon completely forgotten poets who were both consistently masterful in their craft and truly original in tone. Not in one or two poems—consistently. Broomell is one such poet.
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"A daily walk, the simple act of collecting leaves, or sitting quietly in a park can be deeply restorative. These experiences remind us that change is part of life’s cycle, and that beauty exists in every stage of transformation."
Vincent van Gogh, Avenue of Poplars in Autumn, 1884
Vincent van Gogh, Avenue of Poplars in Autumn, 1884
September 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"A daily walk, the simple act of collecting leaves, or sitting quietly in a park can be deeply restorative. These experiences remind us that change is part of life’s cycle, and that beauty exists in every stage of transformation."
Vincent van Gogh, Avenue of Poplars in Autumn, 1884
Vincent van Gogh, Avenue of Poplars in Autumn, 1884
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First Hummingbird Hawk moth I've seen this year. They really are extraordinary little insects that look so much like a hummingbird. This one is feeding on hardy plumbago flowers growing outside the house. Those lovely orange underwings! Beautiful 💙 🤎
September 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
First Hummingbird Hawk moth I've seen this year. They really are extraordinary little insects that look so much like a hummingbird. This one is feeding on hardy plumbago flowers growing outside the house. Those lovely orange underwings! Beautiful 💙 🤎
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Marian Anderson (b. 1897 in Philadelphia) was a singer & international diplomat of democracy who inspired admirers worldwide. She is depicted here in a 1965 portrait by Harlem Renaissance modernist & abstract expressionist painter, Beauford Delaney (b. 1901 in Knoxville).
September 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Marian Anderson (b. 1897 in Philadelphia) was a singer & international diplomat of democracy who inspired admirers worldwide. She is depicted here in a 1965 portrait by Harlem Renaissance modernist & abstract expressionist painter, Beauford Delaney (b. 1901 in Knoxville).
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Behrens’s 1981 Art and Camouflage: Concealment and Deception in Nature, Art and War is a tiny overlooked thing of interest, with a preface by Guy Davenport. Behrens’s portrait of Davenport (c. 1978), too.
April 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Behrens’s 1981 Art and Camouflage: Concealment and Deception in Nature, Art and War is a tiny overlooked thing of interest, with a preface by Guy Davenport. Behrens’s portrait of Davenport (c. 1978), too.
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“A cultural history omitting the machinations of Eros lacks a natural strategy.”
Being a swell aphoristic remark made by Guy Davenport in the afterword to Elizabeth Hutton Turner’s _Americans in Paris (1921-1931): Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder_ (Counterpoint, 1996).
Being a swell aphoristic remark made by Guy Davenport in the afterword to Elizabeth Hutton Turner’s _Americans in Paris (1921-1931): Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder_ (Counterpoint, 1996).
September 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
“A cultural history omitting the machinations of Eros lacks a natural strategy.”
Being a swell aphoristic remark made by Guy Davenport in the afterword to Elizabeth Hutton Turner’s _Americans in Paris (1921-1931): Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder_ (Counterpoint, 1996).
Being a swell aphoristic remark made by Guy Davenport in the afterword to Elizabeth Hutton Turner’s _Americans in Paris (1921-1931): Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder_ (Counterpoint, 1996).
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Mirabelles straight from the tree.
September 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Mirabelles straight from the tree.
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A little piece on another Hollywood émigré—a man who went from helping Osip Mandelstam to getting knocked about by the Three Stooges. And if you want to know what Mr. Peanut has to do with it, you’ll have to read to the end: bdralyuk.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/f...
From Mandelstam to Mr. Peanut: Another Hollywood Émigré Journey
This week Paul Dry Books made me a very happy man. My translation of Alexander Voloshin’s mock epic Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood, which will officially appear in April of next year, now has a c…
bdralyuk.wordpress.com
September 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A little piece on another Hollywood émigré—a man who went from helping Osip Mandelstam to getting knocked about by the Three Stooges. And if you want to know what Mr. Peanut has to do with it, you’ll have to read to the end: bdralyuk.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/f...
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I went to Malmesbury, found the tomb of Athelstan, first king of England and pioneer of hot air ballooning. Please give this a listen - only 6 mins. (also on other all platforms - search ‘these weird isles’)
open.spotify.com/episode/0cyI...
open.spotify.com/episode/0cyI...
Malmesbury
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September 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I went to Malmesbury, found the tomb of Athelstan, first king of England and pioneer of hot air ballooning. Please give this a listen - only 6 mins. (also on other all platforms - search ‘these weird isles’)
open.spotify.com/episode/0cyI...
open.spotify.com/episode/0cyI...
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Dr. Dorothy Irene Height (b. 1912) was one of the “most celebrated figures & tireless freedom fighters in American history.” A leader in the Civil Rights Movement, she counseled presidents & established an organization for women of diverse racial & religious backgrounds to advance the movement.
August 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Dr. Dorothy Irene Height (b. 1912) was one of the “most celebrated figures & tireless freedom fighters in American history.” A leader in the Civil Rights Movement, she counseled presidents & established an organization for women of diverse racial & religious backgrounds to advance the movement.
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I wrote about Eugen Gomringer, Europe's first concrete poet, who died last week aged 100 someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-35-e...
Pinks #35: Eugen Gomringer (1925-2025)
The life and work of Europe's first concrete poet
someflowerssoon.substack.com
August 31, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I wrote about Eugen Gomringer, Europe's first concrete poet, who died last week aged 100 someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-35-e...