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Harmless device.

"But art and writing (and real emancipatory politics) do not give voice to the voiceless; rather, they interrupt even the inner voice of the 'voiceless', whether by suspending the inner monologue of the reader or spectator (or advocate of a political movement), or by trying, often unsuccessfully, to silence the voices-over that forcibly impose themselves in the mind of the one who, whether schizophrenic or dead, has become voiceless, anxiously wanting to scream but unable to do so." --Jalal Toufic in Towards a Foreign Likeness Bent

"Although at one time these theses seemed to express a relentless pessimism embedded in a negative philosophy of history which extended from the story of Odysseus to the gas chambers of Auschwitz, in the age of the Anthropocene they appear astute and clairvoyant."

    "LIME LIGHT

  One can’t work by
lime light.

  A bowlful
right at
one’s elbow

  produces no
more than
a baleful
glow against
the kitchen table.

  The fruit purveyor’s
whole unstable
pyramid

  doesn’t equal
what daylight did."

--Kay Ryan

Baldwin’s Istanbul. (via @_ryanruby_)