"Your kiss is potion from an ancient jar..."
From Hymn to Beauty, Charles Baudelaire (McGowan translation).
Sunday, 29 November 2009
a diary of traces #9
"After the opera's over,
Attending the ladies is done,
We gems of the very first water
Commence with our frolic and fun."
Sung by George Leybourne, one of music hall's best lion comiques. He often sported whiskers in the style known as 'Piccadilly Weepers'.
Attending the ladies is done,
We gems of the very first water
Commence with our frolic and fun."
Sung by George Leybourne, one of music hall's best lion comiques. He often sported whiskers in the style known as 'Piccadilly Weepers'.
Friday, 27 November 2009
Oxen
The Wagyu - a Japanese breed of cattle, said to produce 'the caviar of beef' (Know your cattle, Jack Byard).
In former centuries they "... were given only the best grain to eat and beer to drink and were massaged three times daily".
In former centuries they "... were given only the best grain to eat and beer to drink and were massaged three times daily".
DaDa notes 2.
Breton (in Nadja) describes the first time he heard tell of Benjamin Peret:
A woman, ostensibly asking for the next copy of Litterature, recommends Peret to Breton. "I still remember the expression 'would like to launch himself in literature' which subsequently, knowing to whom it referred, seemed so curious, so moving."
A woman, ostensibly asking for the next copy of Litterature, recommends Peret to Breton. "I still remember the expression 'would like to launch himself in literature' which subsequently, knowing to whom it referred, seemed so curious, so moving."
Sunday, 1 November 2009
a diary of traces #8
'Experiments carried out "in a corner of the human species." '
Blanqui commenting on Considerant and Cabet the nineteenth century Fourierist socialists, from Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project.
Blanqui commenting on Considerant and Cabet the nineteenth century Fourierist socialists, from Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project.
a diary of traces #7
"A dangling, untied ribbon, the soul doesn't exist in and of itself."
Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa
DaDa notes 1.
When the Herzfelde brothers first met the future Oberdada, Johannes Baader, in November 1918, he introduced himself as "President of the Universe".
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