commonplace book :
From Tatlin ! Six stories by Guy Davenport (1974) :
Our sense of the old is always modern. Starlight is hundreds of years old. We live in the phoenix time of antiquity. [from “1830”]
Perhaps only in the awful light of the extraordinary was there real calm in human action. Nothing he might do was superfluous to the moment. [from “The Airplanes at Brescia”]
an everlasting fire, dying and flaring up again [from “Herakleitos”]
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recent reading :
— Naoto Fukasawa and Jasper Morrison. Super Normal. Sensations of the Ordinary [2007]. Lars Müller Publishers, [2024].
Fascinating exhibition of objects from daily life, Tokyo and London 2006 ; Trienniale di Milano 2007.
— Anthony Powell. At Lady Molly’s [1957] and The Kindly Ones [1962].
I picked up At Lady Molly’s and was drawn in, and then on to another . . .
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