24 Wednesday Apr 2019
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They flew the red flag of the crescent moon and star,
were fed in the municipal hall, left unnoticed.
(Robyn Rowland, ‘Faith and charity Ireland, 1847’, Mosaics from the Map, reproduced in ‘Robyn Rowland: six poems’ Rochford Street Review, 23 Apr. 2019)
23 Tuesday Apr 2019
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These yellow Cowslip cheekes
Are gone, are gone: Louers make mone:
His eyes were greene as Leekes.
(A Midsommer Nights Dreame, V, i)
21 Sunday Apr 2019
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In the red corner, “the Elvis of cultural theory” and “the world’s most dangerous philosopher,” Slavoj Zizek—a professor, author and regular RT contributor. His rise to fame can be ascribed to his amazing ability to use dirty jokes, pop culture phenomena and, on at least one occasion, toilets to explain complex topics in psychoanalysis and political theory.
In the blue corner, clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, Jordan Peterson, who has become the darling of the new right for his scathing critiques of identity politics and opposition to feminist narratives.
(“‘Crustacean Jung v Cocaine Hegel’: Zizek-Peterson debate blowout sparks meme war”, RT World News, 20 Apr. 2019)
21 Sunday Apr 2019
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With a squirt of brown liquid from the bar gun, Gary put the finishing touches on Laird’s drink.
(Chris Abrahams, Maddox, 1)
07 Sunday Apr 2019
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Scuffy sniffed his blue smokestack.
‘A toy store is no place for a red-painted tugboat,’ said Scuffy, and he sniffed his blue smokestack again. ‘I was meant for bigger things.’
(Gertrude Crampton, Scuffy the Tugboat)
04 Thursday Apr 2019
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On va sous les tilleuls verts de la promenade.
(Rimbaud, « Roman »)
03 Wednesday Apr 2019
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clothing, Edwardian, flora, John William Waterhouse, painting, Pre-Raphaelite, Royal Academy of Arts, spring
In 1904 the Royal Academy notes described the subject as: ‘In wind-blown draperies of slate-colour and blue, a girl passes through a spring landscape accented by pink blossom and daffodils’. Since then, the picture’s whereabouts have been unknown and it was referred to as ‘lost’ in Anthony Hobson’s 1989 biography of Waterhouse.
(jwwaterhouse.com, ‘John William Waterhouse: Boreas—1902’)
25 Monday Mar 2019
Elles transformerait les manœuvres « pue-le-sueur » en opérateurs aux mains propres, elles tendraient à transmuter les ouvriers en employés et à débarrasser Peau d’Ane de sa malodorante vêture pour lui ouvrir un destin de princesse en robe couleur de lune.
(Christophe Dejours, Souffrance en France, 2)
09 Saturday Mar 2019
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It’s like a newly sighted planet with its own physics of time and space, its sixty-seven hour days, emerald sky, inverted mountain ranges, and dry water.
(Shoshana Zuboff, ‘Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism’, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 05.03.2016)
06 Wednesday Mar 2019
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Antiquité, Jean le Baptiste, minéraux, oiseaux, Oscar Wilde, Salomé, sang, vin
Ta bouche est plus rouge que les pieds de ceux qui foulent le vin dans les pressoirs. Elle est plus rouge que les pieds des colombes qui demeurent dans les temples et sont nourries par les prêtres. Elle est plus rouge que les pieds de celui qui revient d’une forêt où il a tué un lion et vu des tigres dorés. Ta bouche est comme une branche de corail que des pêcheurs ont trouvée dans le crépuscule de la mer et qu’ils réservent pour les rois… ! Elle est comme le vermillon que les Moabites trouvent dans les mines de Moab et que les rois leur prennent. Elle est comme l’arc du roi des Perses qui est peint avec du vermillon et qui a des cornes de corail. Il n’y a rien au monde d’aussi rouge que ta bouche… laisse-moi baiser ta bouche.
(Oscar Wilde, Salomé)
