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Sentimental story by Nichita Stãnescu Then we met more often. I stood at one side of the hour, you at the other, like two handles of an amphora. Only the words flew between us, back and forth. You could almost see their swirling, and suddenly, I would lower a knee, and touch my elbow to the ground t…
12 years ago / 636 visits
Prin gările cu firme-albastre Ion Minulescu Tristeţea trenului ce pleacă Noi n-am trâit-o niciodată, Căci – călători ades cu trenul - În clipa când plecăm din gară, Noi stăm pe loc - Doar trenul pleacă!... Doar trenul pleacă, Trenul singur Ne poartă nerăbdarea mută, Bagajul visurilor noastre Şi…
14 years ago / 805 visits
Il y a du soleil dans la rue Moi j'aime le soleil mais j'aime pas les gens Et je reste caché tout l'temps A l'abri des volets d'acier noir Il y a du soleil dans la rue Moi j'aime bien la rue mais quand elle s'endort Et j'attends que le jour soit mort Et je vais rêver sur les trottoirs Et l'sole…
14 years ago / 702 visits
If I controlled the internet? You could auction your broken heart on Ebay Take the money, go to Amazon, Buy a phonebook for a country you’ve never been to Call folks at random until you find someone who flirts really well in a foreign language If I were in charge of the internet You could Mapquest…
15 years ago / 669 visits
"Ever since that day I have realized that man's soul is a terrible and dangerous coil spring. Without knowing it, we all carry a great explosive force wrapped in our flesh and lard. And what is worse, we do not want to know it, for the villainy, cowardice, and falsehood lose their justification; we…
15 years ago / 354 visits / 1 person likes
"Le Bosphore : une avenue liquide, une allée triomphale qui vous porte, l'Asie et l'Europe se confrontant pendant des lieux avec une inoubliable solennité... Pour dire l'entrée de Constantinople a ceux qui n'ont pas vue, il faudrait leur parler comme on parle aux aveugles pour leur expliquer la lum…
15 years ago / 342 visits
Fernando Pessoa Portuguese Sea / Mar Portugues Horizon Your fearfulness preceding us, O Sea, / O mar anterior a nos, teus medos Was lodged in coral, shores, and masts. / Tinham coral e praias e arvoredos. Once of night and fog, of bygone / Desvendadas a noite e a cerracao, Tempests a…
15 years ago / 420 visits
After their 1924 summer in the Bay of Naples (Capri), Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis wrote the essay "Neapel", which appeared in Frankfurter Zeitung in 1926. It is Benjamin's first recording of his reflections on the modern city experience. The ruins of Pompeii and Naples stimulated them to distingu…
16 years ago / 920 visits / 1 comment
May 23 (1923)* My dear Emilian, As I expect you have already guessed, every ship is going to depart without me, because I am not going to leave this country again. When I went away from you I thought it would be my last absence, as I promised to return, and believed I would be capable to do so. P…
17 years ago / 711 visits
Shunryu Suzuky 1970: ... everything comes out of emptiness. when we reach this understanding we find the true meaning of our life. when we reach this understanding we can see the beauty of human life ... Zelda Fitzgerald 1929-30: every place has its hours: there is Rome in the glassy sun of a wint…
17 years ago / 529 visits
The Unseen Power We are the flute, our music is all Thine; We are the mountains echoing only Thee; Pieces of chess Thou marshallest in line And movest to defeat or victory; Lions emblazoned high on flags unfurled - Thy wind invisible sweeps us through the world. Only Breath Not Christian or Je…
17 years ago / 593 visits / 1 person likes
... Richard Sennett wrote an article on the foreigner that starts from Simmel's understanding of the stranger's role to expose "the sheer arbitrariness of society's script, which insiders follow thinking lines have been written by Right, Reason, or God" (2002) and goes on with the foreigner's knowle…
17 years ago / 881 visits / 1 comment
On the condition of being a stranger, I draw here on Georg Simmel's description of the stranger as a social type (1908). In order to determine typologies he focuses on forms of social interaction and contextualizes sets of observations within systems of meanings. If one considers opposed categories…
17 years ago / 878 visits
Etymologically the word flânerie comes from the French verb flâner that means to stroll, to take a walk. The origins of the verb are dialectal. In the seventeenth century the verb ‘flanner’ was used in Normandy to mean ‘to waste time’ (CNRTL). The verb flâner [to stroll], and the nouns flâneur [stro…
17 years ago / 1 026 visits / 1 comment
Rhythmanalysis is the study of rhythms :o) Gaston Bachelard borrowed the term from the writer Lucio Alberto Pinheiro dos Santos (a 1931-piece in Portuguese) in The Psychoanalysis of Fire and in The Poetics of Space as “rhythmo-analysis”, and developed a chapter on “Rhythmanalysis” in Dialectic of Du…
17 years ago / 1 487 visits