Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.
Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
Showing posts with label melancholy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label melancholy. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Monday, January 08, 2018
At death you break up: the bits that were you
Start speeding away from each other for ever
With no one to see.
Philip Larkin, The Old Fools
Start speeding away from each other for ever
With no one to see.
Philip Larkin, The Old Fools
Sunday, July 21, 2013
To Evening
You set me and my thoughts a-wandering
along the path to the eternal void; and then
this wretched time flees, and with it
the throng of woes afflicting it and me;
and while I behold your peacefulness, that warlike
spirit that rages within me sleeps.
From "Alla sera" by Ugo Foscolo, translated by Allen Shearer, seen on a Metro bus
along the path to the eternal void; and then
this wretched time flees, and with it
the throng of woes afflicting it and me;
and while I behold your peacefulness, that warlike
spirit that rages within me sleeps.
From "Alla sera" by Ugo Foscolo, translated by Allen Shearer, seen on a Metro bus
Monday, March 05, 2012
He took it for granted that his great concern for the universe was unlikely to be reciprocated by the universe for him. ... His relationship to his fellow human beings was governed by the same unconscious assumption; being unable to detect mutability where there plainly wasn't any, he made like the raindrop relinquishing hold of the cloud which contained it.
László Krasznahorkai, The Melancholy of Resistance
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