Dialogue on the Threshold
03 January 2022

The way inwards

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Die Phantasie setzt die künftige Welt entweder in die Höhe, oder in die Tiefe, oder in der Metempsychose zu uns. Wir träumen von Riesen durc...

A surrealist light

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Il y a une lumière surréaliste : celle qui à l'heure où les villes s'enflamment tombe sur l'étalage saumon des bas de soie : cel...
02 January 2022

Jiří Šalamoun's Tristram Shandy (3)

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If ’tis wrote against any thing, —— ’tis wrote, an’ please your worships, against the spleen; in order, by a more frequen...
01 January 2022

Tranced obedience to a dream

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Who bade the scallop devise her shell? Who tutored the daisy at cool of eve To tent her pollen in floreted cell? What dominie taught the dov...

Privy matters (1)

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There was a very tall & serviceable gentleman, somtime Lieutenant of the ordinance, called M. Jaques Wingfield ; who coming one day, eit...
31 December 2021

Jiří Šalamoun's Tristram Shandy (2)

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Here a Devil of a rap at the door snapp’d my father’s definition (like his tobacco-pipe) in two,---and, at the same time,...
30 December 2021

Jiří Šalamoun's Tristram Shandy (1)

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Laurence Sterne, Život a názory blahorodého pana Tristrama Shandyho [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman], translated by Alo...
28 December 2021

The strange mine workings of the soul

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. . . der Seelen wunderliches Bergwerk . . . Felsen waren da und wesenlose Wälder. Brücken über Leeres . . .  . . . the strange mine working...
26 December 2021

The Land of Papagosse

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Ils sont prins s'ils ne s'envolent,(*) ces pourceaux qui vestus à la Turque,(†) le Turban sur la teste, le halebarde sur l'espau...
25 December 2021

Sterility

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Les grands désastres ne rendent rien sur le plan littéraire ni religieux. Seuls les demi-malheurs sont féconds, parce qu'ils peuvent êtr...
22 December 2021

Seelengrund

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 Sunt in anima perceptiones obscurae. Harum complexus fundus animae dicitur. Baumgarten, Metaphysica §511 There are in the soul obscure per...
21 December 2021

Contingencies

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Daniil Kharms, Sluchai , edited by Vladimir Glotser, illustrated by Leonid Tishkov,  Assotsiatsiya "Mir Kul'tury" Fortuna-Limi...
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