Archives for May 2025

"Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments as soon as they are written.” Friedrich Schlegel (Philosophical Fragments) "Then one day you wake up and your seventy. Looking ahead you see a black doorway.You begin to notice the black doorway is always there. At the edge, whether you look at it or not. Most moments contain it, most moments have a sort of sediment of black doorway at the bottom of the glass." Anne Carson (lecture 'Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind', London Review of Books) “Only a word book makes it possible to hold the student responsible…because it provides them with a reliable tool for … [Read more...]