The Interval is the metaphysical space between the eternal world of Forms and the perishable world of perceptible things, between the noume...

The very manner in which one walks along the street reveals whether one is civilised or not: two civilised men, on approaching each other a...

Geertgen tot Sint Jans, Johannes der Täufer , 1631 Whereas, if I sinke in this sorrow, in this dejection of spirit, though it were Wine...

Early Morning - Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) "Neo-Platonism may be compared to an underground river that flows through European hist...

"Eho tu concacavisti te?" ("And hast thou besmirched thyself with thine own ordure?") Link to further information...

Dimitrie Cantemir (1673-1723) Istoria ieroglifică / The Hieroglyphic History (1703-5) The Hieroglyphic History, written between 17...

Caelius Calcagninus (Celio Calcagnini, 1479-1541), Podicis Encomium* Membra omnia corporis capitales olim inimicitias adversus podicem ...

Велемир Хлебников / Velemir Hlebnikov (1885-1922) Sergei Biriukov citește Заклятие смехом (Звукорежиссер Андрей Boettger. Запись 2004 ...

Осип Мандельштам Osip Mandelștam Мне холодно. Прозрачная весна В зеленый пух Петрополь одевает, Но, как медуза, невская волна Мне ...

Даниил Хармс (1905-1942) Я долго думал об орлах И понял многое: Орлы летают в облаках, Летают, никого не трогая. Я понял, что живут ор...

A section concerning one particular effect of eating onions may be found in the Physiologia crepitus ventris ( The Physiology of Ventral ...

Johannes Ravisius, in his Officinae epitome (Seb. Gryphius: Lyon, 1560), gives an extensive catalogue of famous cases of unnatural death r...

Gellu Naum (1915-2001) In the Silent Mornings (Tăcutele dimineți) from Culoarul somnului/The Corridor of Sleep (1944) In the silent mo...

Mariya Veniaminova Yudina (1899-1970) was perhaps one of the greatest classical pianists of the twentieth century. She was openly critical...

Osip Mandel'shtam (1891-1938) What are we to do with the murderousness of the plains, With the expansive hunger of their miracle? ...

Les majuscules sur les glaces des magasins se muent en troublants hiéroglyphes ... prennent des significations menaçantes. Louis Aragon...