Clarice Lispector: “Certain aspects of seeing were like “flowers on the grave”: what was seen came to exist. Joanna didn’t expect visions in miracle or announced by the angel Gabriel, however. They surprised her in things she had already set eyes on, but suddenly seeing for the first time, suddenly comprehending that the thing had …
Day: January 10, 2013
Second Avenue
From Second Ave: What spanking opossums of sneaks are caressing the routes! and of the pulse-racked tremors attached to my viscousness I can only enumerate the somber instances of wetness. Is it a triumph? and are the lightnings of movedness and abysmal elevation cantankerous filaments of a largwer faint-heartedness like loving summer? You, accpeting always …
Paperbacks
“In America such items were disparagingly referred to as “previously owned”; but this very continuity of ownership was part of their charm. A book dispensed its explanation of the world to one person, then another, and so on down the generations; different hands held the same book and drew sometimes the same, sometimes a different …