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It's not pointless if it's soothing.

"Reminded of Edmond Jabès:

'Man is within man like the kernel in the fruit, or the grain of salt in the ocean.

And yet, he is the fruit. And yet, he is the sea.'

(A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Book) via @yoonkim.bsky.social

"Tanith’s actual originals were written in longhand, in a kind of shorthand she invented."

"The camps are a context where almost every human capacity broke down. That aesthetic experience also failed there tells us something about extremity, not about art."