Not The Latter Or The Former.

mai 17th
Interviewer: If you had the choice of one and only one book by which you would be remembered, which one would it be?
Vladimir Nabokov: The one I am dreaming of writing.

mai 6th

avril 12th "April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain."
— T.S. Eliot, From The Burial of the Dead in The Wasteland

I adore this poem, can you believe it is almost one hundred years old now?

avril 3rd

∞

I just booked tickets to see Danny Boyle’s theatre production of ‘Frankenstein’ starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller in the cinema. Yes, I’ve booked both viewings (they alternate roles and I want to see the juxtaposition and dynamic of this) and yes, I am really excited.

(I needed something to motivate me to revise, haha).

avril 3rd

Elena Dimitrovna Diakonova, born in Russia, daughter of a muscovite functionary; possessed a great sensitivity for art and distinct physical and intellectual attractiveness. She was part of the surrealist group, many of which were in love with her. She met Dali in the spring of 1929, at the time married with Paul Eulard. They promised to visit him in Cadaqués during the next summer, a meeting arrangement that also included Bruñel, Magritte and his wife. Dali’s love for Gala, a woman 10 years older than him, exploded then; he realized numerous extravagancies to capture her attention; such as waxing his armpit and dying it blue, applying goat excrements upon himself and wearing a red geranium on his head. His emotion was such, that every time he tried to talk to her, he suffered uncontrollable laughing attacks. During a stroll in Cabo de Creus, Dali fell on his knees laughing, he declared his love for her, and holding his hand Gala said “… my boy, let us never to be separated…” this would have given Dali a feeling of being divinely understood. In his secret life, Dalí tells us: “…her body had an infantile complexion, scapula and lumbar muscles a teenager’s tension, the curve of her back however, was extraordinarily feminine and gracefully joined the energetic torso with the delicate buttock, that her bee like shaping, made her even more desirable…” Gala had a great influence on Salvador Dali’s life and deed. She died on June 10, 1982. When the news was given to the painter, he said “…she is not dead, she will never die…”

février 28th

Ilex Aquifolium

Coward is me? coward I be not,
O’ beauty dark – impermeable, closed,
I look’d in vain, but to see thee I cannot.

by onlyanotherhuman (January 2012)

février 15th

janvier 26th