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"A turn toward practices of communal healing and repair has occasioned activist interventions in the interest of preventing further violence and envisioning a more just, interconnected future. Importantly, these methodologies have made it imperative, for example, to connect the memories and postmemories of the Holocaust and the Nakba..."

"Why does one’s best writing require secrecy, silence, and darkness?"

— Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5: 1947-1955 (via @zeeshanjaanam)

Borges' library.

one glob
of mustard phlegm
centered in a tissue
message from several years ago
still edged

"It was the opinion of Sir Richard Burton that the tree runes were an Arab invention that was borrowed by Varangians and adapted to use with their own runes. Why it did not occur to him that the transmission was from northern runes to Arabic is uncertain."