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"As I am writing these words, they are becoming obsolete, as though their very writing were rendering them so." —Experimental Translation, Lily Robert-Foley
A screenshot of a page from Experimental Translation by Lily Robert-Foley, with the highlighted text reading "As I am writing these words, they are becoming obsolete, as though their very writing were rendering them so."
June 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Joan Didion, "After Henry"
The image shows a screenshot of a pdf from the book of collected essays by Joan Didion. The blue highlighted text reads: "This is a tricky undertaking, and requires the editor not only to maintain a faith the writers shares only in intermittent flashes but also to like the writer, which is hard to do. Writers are only rarely likeable. They bring nothing to the party, leave their game at the typewriter."
May 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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excerpt from Mahmoud Khalil's letter, with the question highlighted: "Who has the right to have rights?"
April 9, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Steven Connor, Fly
The image shows a screenshot of a page of a book that reads: "More than the rat, the cat, the dog or the horse, the fly is our familiar. Flies accompany human beings wherever they go, and have probably done so since the first development and spread of animal husbandry among early humans. Flies are, as one of their rare celebrants has written, ‘the constant, immemorial witnesses to the human comedy’.1 Flies were indeed literally thought to be the ‘familiars’ of witches. But flies are familiar in another sense. For what we might call the Gestalt or footprint of the fly extends far beyond its most familiar forms, such as the house fly. About one tenth of all the species known to science are flies. Not only this, many creatures that are not flies at all have nevertheless been given the name: dragonflies, butterflies and fireflies; even the flea has a name that factitiously suggests an association with the fly. The spellings ‘flee’, ‘flea’ and ‘flie’ were largely interchangeable in the volatile orthography of preeighteenth-century English. The word fly is used to signify any kind of small flying creature, of indeterminate form. Flies are so familiar that we allow them to multiply, in kind as well as number, under our noses."
February 14, 2025 at 2:11 AM