– Anne Carson, by Terry Byrnes, from here And as per the title, Anne Carson under false sail can be read by clicking the photo of her.

There comes a time when all that has come before seems like a false start. Where does it come from, the sense of a false start? Since we can not choose how our narratives begin, only how they carry on, how they deal with each problem as it comes until

– Henri Cartier-Bresson, Balthus and Setsuko – Balthus (1908-2001), The Mountain , 1937 Literature is an objective, a projected result; it is life that is the unconscious, the agitated, the struggling, floundering cause. The artist’s life is his work, and that is the place to find him. – Henry James quoted in Joyce

Deleuze talks of how Nietzsche overturns Kant – formally -, produces a beyond of morality, a test of love over faith: “The eternal return says: whatever you will, will it in such a manner that you also will its eternal return.” [Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition , trans. Paul Patton, Continuum, London,

– a detail, inverted, from Damien Hirst’s exhibition invitation to The Dead , from here (the skulls which follow are from the same source). The above title (and all subsequent quotation) is from here. The Guardian article by Fiachra Gibbons from which it’s drawn actually says, “All that remains is

… determining judgement and reflective judgement are not like two species of the same genus. Reflective judgement manifests and liberates a depth which remained hidden in the other. But the other was also judgement only by virtue of this living depth. If this were not so it would be incomprehensible that