Agamben, hölderlins madness: “that is why, when he translates Sophocles’ Ajax, he renders the phrase theiai maniai xynaulos, literally ‘dwelling with divine madness’ as ‘sein haus ist göttliche Wahnsinn, ‘his house is divine madness’”

shadowboxing this insane intro to a book titled “disciplined dissent: strategies of non-confrontational protest in Europe from the twelfth to early sixteenth centuries” and still can’t get over how easily this author equates protest with, say, participating in politics without causing any alarm.

tmelvilles tomb (hart crane) this misty afternoon