( via/ me )

"Given not only Pound’s own anti-Semitism and support for Mussolini but also the well-known association of kitsch with fascism, the deployment of kitsch as the foundation of a liberatory, communalist, and queer left-wing poetics in the fifties and sixties was counterintuitive, to put it mildly."

"Through
night-lava

like eyelids opening gently
the first cry of the creative volcano
blinks.

In the branches of your limbs
the premonitions
build their twittering nests."

— Nelly Sachs (translated by Ruth & Matthew Mead) via @Isidro_Li

What if Beowulf had been written by Shakespeare?

"There is a stone, a cubic mile in size, a million times harder than diamond. Every million years a very holy man visits it to give it the lightest possible touch. The stone is in the end worn away. This works out at something like 10 to-the-35th years..."

—Littlewood's Miscellany

"The results have ranged from sci-fi-inspired discussions about consciousness to an agent musing about a “sister” it has never met."