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All that pent up terror and rage
All that pent up terror and rage

Dodie Bellamy

Plague Widow

Driving to the Castro, Bee Reaved feels hyper emotional, as she often does in the car, Nick Cave’s Ghosteen on repeat, and she thinks—this is what it’s like to live without hope. Six months after Kevin’s death, friends left her to fare for herself. Other widows warned her this would happen, that everybody would disappear before she was ready. One widow she no longer talks to said, “Wait and see, you’re going to have a total breakdown.” Now, with the...
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Bit-of, history re-peat-ing.
Bit-of, history re-peat-ing.

Tom McCarthy

8 1/2 Millionen

Über den Unfall selbst kann ich wenig sagen. Fast nichts. Etwas fiel vom Himmel, damit hatte es zu tun. ­Technologie. Teile, Bruchstücke. Und das ist auch schon alles: Alles, was ich preisgeben kann. Das ist nicht viel, ich weiß. Nicht, dass ich Hemmungen hätte. Es ist nur so, dass – na ja, erstens kann ich mich gar nicht an das Ereignis erinnern. Da ist eine Leerstelle: ein weißes Blatt, ein schwarzes Loch. Verschwommene Bilder, fragmentarische Eindrücke: dass mich etwas trifft, oder getroffen...
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Mário Gomes

Ein Roadtrip ohne Road

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Maria Filomena Molder

So many egoists call themselves artists…

“So many egoists call themselves artists,” Rimbaud wrote to Paul Demeny on May 15, 1871. Even though that is not always obvious, ‘I’, the first person, is the most unknown person, a mystery that is constantly moving towards the other two, the second and third persons, a series of unfoldings and smatterings that eventually gelled as ‘Je est un autre’. That is why ‘apocryphal’ is a literarily irrelevant concept and ‘pseudo’ a symptom, the very proof that life, writing, is made up of echoes, which means that intrusions and thefts (Borges also discusses them) will always be the daily bread of those who write.

Words from others, words taken out of place and mutilated: here are the alms of time, that squanderer’s sole kindness. And so many others, mostly others who wrote, and many other pages, all of them apocryphal, all of them echoes, reflections. All this flows together into—two centuries...

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