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"It seems that in post-Soviet Russia, in a cultural situation in which people would like to reverse history and make a whole era disappear, an artistic form like the palindrome which can demonstrate the reversibility of time by retrograde devices of letter magic has its own fascination and attraction."

"these fancies yielded to that one portentous something in the picture’s midst. That once found out, and all the rest were plain" —@mobydickatsea.bsky.social

"Listening to ‘salon music’ has never done anyone any harm!"

"The Heart

Dark anxiety of death, as when the gold
Died in the grey cloud.

An evening in November.
A crowd of needy women stood at the bare gate
Of the slaughterhouse;
Rotten meat and guts fell
Into every basket;
Horrible food.

The blue dove of the evening
Brought no forgiveness.

The dark cry of trumpets
Travelled in the golden branches
Of the soaked elms,
A frayed flag
Smoking with blood,
To which a man listens
In wild despair..

All your days of nobility, buried
In that red evening."

—Georg Trakl via (tr O Sheppard)

Nuclear Thrones.