"increasing store with loss and loss with store" || "wie schwinden wächst und wachsen schwinden heißt und tönt"
shakespeare sonnet 64 übersetzt von franz josef czernin

(Rereading the Artemis and Endymion dialogue makes me realize that I unconsciously plagiarized it in a whole bunch of short stories I wrote. Like Beckett or Celan, there's something irresistibly infectious about the cadences—not always for the better in imitation!)

The combination of tormented sensuality, mythic unknowableness, and back-and-forth rhythm reads uncannily like Nō drama.

Excited that @sublunary.bsky.social is doing a reissue of the 1965 Arrowsmith and Carne-Ross translation.
sublunaryeditions.com/products/dia....

Cesare Pavese's "Dialogues with Leucò" is one of those books I read once years ago, have not yet returned to, but will never forget. An un-Adornian late work of late where the author crystallizes their style around myth—just before ending their life.

it's thanks in large part to @jakeromm.bsky.social that i started reading krasznahorkai – read jake's fantastic essay before LK wins the nobel!
(doing dialectical criticism, i see:) bsky.app/profile/jake...