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Proud to see my Schrift-Landschaften published by the very fine Epidote Press. Pictured here as displayed by the always wonderful NIEMA...

But certainly, he came more and more to be unable to care for, or think of soul but as in an actual body, or of any world but tha...

Inferences I.  T ext fragment:  Walter Benjamin.

        ...the principle that children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally esta...

It was so utterly wonderful to find I could go so heartily & headily mad; for you know I had been priding myself on my pecul...

In Walser, an absolute sense of decency about language does not let agony express itself. The reality is made manifest, the fact of...

at THE BROTHER IN ELYSIUM

I n 1883, an earthquake that lasted ninety seconds shook the south of Italy. In that earthqua...

On the evening before that most important day of my life, in Würzburg, I went for a walk. When the sun went down,...

At the age of ten he constructed a working model of a sewing machine out of bits of wood and wire. It was not tru...

I should like to erect here a modest stele to the memory of Sir Arthur Helps (1813-1875), a secretary and confidant of Quee...

A MILLION NIGHTINGALES ARE SINGING The Stars. Blue. Expanse. Flaming song of stars! A million nightingales ...

The successive thump of logs on the paving of the courtyards. They were unloaded from carts, house by house, as th...

Your letter has drawn me from the solitude in which I had shut myself up for nearly nine months, and from which I found it hard to stir. You...

Mayer André Marcel Schwob was born into a family of rabbis and doctors. The mother, Mathilde, was a Cahun, descendant of Caym de Sainte-Me...

...der Heilige gibt den halben Mantel, die Gottheit den ganzen Schleier. ...the holy man gives half of his coat, divinity the whole veil. -...

There on the pier, stabbed by an ice pick, the Empress Elizabeth, symbol of the oldest European monarchy, which must die at the villainous h...