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nicholasskaggs: Alli and her craft.

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:48:39 -0500

nicholasskaggs:

Alli and her craft.

o, reed!

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:12:00 -0500

o, reed!

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Tue, 14 May 2013 17:56:08 -0500

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Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:22:00 -0500

homilius: From the Dedication to Agee’s Permit Me Voyage (1934), his first and only published book...

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:12:09 -0500

homilius:

From the Dedication to Agee’s Permit Me Voyage (1934), his first and only published book of poetry:

Dedication
in much humility
to God in the highest
in the trust that he despises nothing

And in his commonwealth:

To those who in all times have sought truth and who have told it in their art or in their living, who died in honor; and chiefly to these: Christ: Dante: Mozart: Shakspere: Bach: Homer: Beethoven: Swift: the fathers of Holy Scripture: Shelley: Brahms: Rembrandt: Keats: Cézanne: Gluck: Schubert: [D.H.] Lawrence: Van Gogh: and to an unknown sculptor of China, for his god’s head.

To those of all times who have sought truth and who failed to tell it in their art or in their lives, and who now are dead.

To those who died in the high and humble knowledge of God: seers of visions; watchmen, defenders, vessels of his Word; martyrs and priests and monarchs and young children and those of hurt mind; and to all saints unsainted.

To those unremembered who have died in no glory of peace, nor hope nor thought of any glory: to those who died in sorrow, and in kindness, and in bravery; to those who died in violence suddenly, and to all that saw not death upon them; to those who died awake to the work of death; to those who died in the dizziness of many years, not knowing their children for theirs; to those who died virgin, or barren; to those who died in the time of the joy of their strength; to those who took their own lives into the earth; to those who died in deadly sin.

To those who in their living time were frustrate with circumstance, and disadvantage; to those who died in the still desire of truth who never knew truth, nor much beauty, and small joy but the goodness of endurance; to all those who in all times have labored in the earth and who have wrought their time blindly, patient in the sun: and to all the dead in their generations:

And especially to Joel Tyler, and to James Agee my brave father, and to Jessie Tyler that became Mother Mary Gabriel, faithful maidservant of the most high God, and to Emma Farrand, the wife of Joel Tyler.

May they rest.
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Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:42:50 -0500

vintage3d:

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Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:35:21 -0600

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chicagojan 2011

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:23:00 -0600

chicago
jan 2011

There is nothing that commends a story to memory more effectively than that chaste compactness which...

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:37:54 -0600

There is nothing that commends a story to memory more effectively than that chaste compactness which precludes psychological analysis. And the more natural the process by which the storyteller forgoes psychological shading, the greater becomes the story’s claim to a place in the memory of the listener, the more completely it is integrated into his own experience, the greater will be his inclination to repeat it to someone else someday, sooner or later. This process of assimilation, which takes place in depth, requires a state of relaxation which is becoming rarer and rarer. If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Walter Benjamin, “The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov”

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Some pages still preserved the tracesWhere fingernails had sharply pressed;The girl’s...

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:38:00 -0600

Some pages still preserved the traces
Where fingernails had sharply pressed;
The girl’s attentive eye embraces
These lines more quickly than the rest.
And Tanya sees with trepidation
The kind of thought or observation
To which Eugene paid special heed,
Or where he’d tacitly agreed.
And in the margins she inspected
His pencil marks with special care;
And on those pages everywhere
She found Onegin’s soul reflected –
In crosses or a jotted note,
Or in the question mark he wrote.

Evgenii Onegin 7.23
Trans. James E. Falen