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A better recording for "Drapa for Roxy".

"And the rivers continue their usual flow
as if we are invisible,
always hidden under the debris.

The disaster watches over us at night
--our recurring, endless night--
like a verb with no subject or object."

- Dunya Mikhail trans. from Arabic by Elizabeth Winslow (via @aliner)

幻想雑貨 ('fantasy money').

"As the mist leaves no scar

As the mist leaves no scar
On the dark green hill,
So my body leaves no scar
On you, nor ever will.

When wind and hawk encounter,
What remains to keep?
So you and I encounter,
Then turn, then fall to sleep.

As many nights endure
Without a moon or star,
So will we endure,
When one is gone and far."

--Leonard Cohen, from The Spice-Box of Earth

"And this light, like the light on the Höss’s yard, is harsh: when you see the soil now, is that all you will see? Are you capable, still, of ignoring the smell of flesh in the air?"