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Octavio Paz ~ Duración | Duration ~ from Salamandra | Salamander (1958 – 1961)

Octavio Paz ~ Duración | Duration ~ from Salamandra | Salamander (1958 – 1961)

Trueno y viento: duración I Ching I Negro el cielo Amarilla la tierra El gallo desgarra la noche El agua se levanta y pregunta la hora El viento se levanta y pregunta por ti Pasa un caballo blanco II Como el bosque en su lecho de hojas tú duermes en

Every Arc Bends Its Radian, Sergio De La Pava. 𝄐krimi𝄐politico𝄐terror&horripilation𝄐hagiographic detour𝄐pretentio

Sergio de la Pava’s book became involved in a series of déjà vus before the fact. This sign 𝄐 features heavily in the last part. I’d used it at outside light. There were other things. A line on constriction, after I’d just written a line about a fabulous

the Line vs. Shibam

The first phase of the Line will be named Hidden Marina and will stretch 2.5 km (1.5 miles) over the desert. It will rise to a height of 500 m (1,640 ft) and will be made up of three individual modular segments, with a mirrored exterior. Its

Houellebecq’s Annihilation: excerpts, including space—a social construction, and the aesthetic superiority, to the cultural production of the elite, of popular cultural production: Or, Houellebecq, in whose hands Realism becomes a genre superior to either

Could a politician really influence the course of things? It seemed questionable. Developments in technology could do that without a doubt; and so, perhaps, to some degree, could economic power relations—even though Bruno [based on Bruno Le Maire, France’s Finance Minister] still tended to some degree to see

excerpt from the penultimate in the Culture series in which world-building proves space is a social construction

Roughly ten percent of the land area of Golter was autonomous state; countries in the accepted sense. The rest was technically Free Land in the form of city states, beltland, commercial and industrial parks, farming collectives, ecclesiastical dependencies, bank franchises, sept reservations, leased and freeheld familial estates, Antiquarian societies’ digs,

St. DONALD

by Eliot Weinberger DONALD (Scotland, 8th century) He lived a devout life with his daughters, the Nine Virgins, after his wife’s death, but his obscurity makes his popularity as a name for boys puzzling.

another post about Levrero, “jumping up and down like an excited dog,” that’s me not him

Strange to think at the time I was born Levrero was writing feverishly in Piriápolis. He was 26, says the TRANSLATOR’S AFTERWORD. Annie McDermott, the translator, adds that he later looked back on that time with wonder, as his ‘imaginative’ period. Imagination, she writes, is for Levrero very different