“… the legend of an incestuous union between the divine twins” (Klossowski)

Ernst Morwitz, close friend of Stefan George, relates to us that Mallarmé, upon inviting George to his exclusive Tuesday soirées, said of him, "Let this second Werther come to see me, but see that he leaves his pistol behind."

Void

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Will we ever see a New York-based literary magazine that doesn't post "party photography" of their events?

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my dreams are out to humiliate and cuckold me

i am the loneliest thing in the world

Maurice Blanchot, born on this day, “offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light, for this void which contemplates.”

I am Heaven’s insurgent sent to use the powers of Hell against it I am Heaven’s insurgent sent to use the powers of Hell against it I am Heaven’s insurgent sent to use the powers of Hell against it I am Heaven’s insurgent sent to use the powers of Hell against it

“Nothing so consoles that too inner pain / than pain from somewhere else” (Rilke)

“… the power to re-create [nuclear bombs], the power to bring extinction upon the species, could never be extirpated from the planet as long as the fundamental principles of rational science are at large in the minds of men” (Alphonso Lingis)

Will Alexander on the (non-)origin(s) of his thinking

I'm not super far into Schattenfroh but so far I think Attila is the better book

Krasznahorkai's "Nine Dragon Crossing" is one of the greatest short stories I've ever read

Had to pull the car over because the poem I was writing while driving disoriented me so much I almost threw up

in need of ib-You-profen for my Other-ache

Pierre Klossowski was one of the true geniuses of the 20th century, “the Leonardo of the French avant-garde,” as Eridanos Press christens him, head and shoulders above almost all others of his time

Some of Klossowski’s reflections on Diana’s appearance to Actaeon and Roman “stage shows”. I think there is also some light in this book that can be shed on Balthus’s Thérèse paintings

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