#joyeuxanniversaire #PascalQuignard

“Consider; for a smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities, Pierre.”

— Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

Happy #MelvilleMonday🐳

♪Ah—so far apart, you know, There’s no way to meet when I long to— If only the moon would turn into a mirror, you know, Wouldn’t that be something—♪

“Joban Tankō-bushi” (The Joban Coal Mining Song)　tr. me
#sundaysentence

“The man who gets gunpowder from dreams
also gets salt on his wounds”

— Bei Dao (from “AT THIS MOMENT”)

#sundaysentence

This was tucked between the pages—someone unknown, calling my attention from the past. Saturday 6th January 1968, Nieuwe Rotterdamse Courant.

“I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.”

― Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

I could not resist rescuing this 1954 Gallimard set I happened upon in a second-hand bookshop—though I already had several, as if such books refused to belong to anyone.　#MarcelProust

#MelvilleMonday
“The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essen tially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges” (Billy Budd, 28)

“But healing just seems like a very interesting process. It means such different things in different contexts. Like, is the idea of healing to get you back to the way you used to be or to turn you into something new? ”

— Benjamin Markovits, The Rest of Our Lives

そしてこの表面的な「失敗」（携帯が壊れ録音できなかったので話をでっち上げた）こそが、重要な意味を持つことが判明する。言葉で伝えようとしていることとは？記憶とは？コミュニケーションとは？といった疑問が読者に委ねられる。老メンターのトマスという名前はピンチョンを想像させるが、ラーナーとつながりの深いRosmarie WaldropやAlexander Klugeがモデルであろう（ちなみに3人とも同年代だ）。また、Anna Ostoyaとの共作『The Polish Rider』に登場したあの絵もトマスの家の壁にかかっている。このように現実とフィクションが作品内で少しだけかたちを変えて交差していく。

“But waking does not end a dream. […] We extend the dream when we share it. You call it fiction but it is more.”

— Ben Lerner, Transcription

“Impossibly thin glass filaments underground, underwater, in the lungs, in the cochlea, vibrating when the small waves hit them — You call this fiction, but it is more.”

— Ben Lerner, Transcription

#SundaySentence

The Tunnel By William H. Gass ISBN: 9781628976366eBook: 9781628976373Audiobook: 9781628976380 Publication date: April 7, 2026 Perhaps even more chillingly relevant today than it was thirty years ago, this grippi...

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入手困難になっていたウィリアム・ギャスの『トンネル』の新版がついに！
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Forugh Farrokhzad、うちにも1冊ある。キアロスタミ監督の映画『風が吹くまま』The Wind Will Carry Us は、Farrokhzadの一節からとられたタイトル。

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「フォルーグ・ファッロフザード――イランの抵抗の詩人」（Forugh Farrokhzad: The Rebel Poet of Iran）

ファッロフザードの詩の英訳や一部ペルシア語原文、関連文献、映像などを編集したウェブサイト。

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“But say, are not the sweets of June made sweet by the April tears?”

(Pierre; or The Ambiguities)

#MelvilleMonday 🐳

“But waking does not end a dream. […] We extend the dream when we share it. You call it fiction but it is more.”

— Ben Lerner, Transcription

#BenLerner #Transcription

ベン・ラーナーの『Transcription』は、録音されていない会話の「記録」という矛盾そのものを小説の中心的メタファーに据えた作品で、問題となるのは再現の失敗ではなく、むしろあらゆる記録が本来的に反復＝差延の運動に属しているという事態そのものだ。さらに本作は、人と人とを接続するはずのテクノロジーや目的合理性が、かえってコミュニケーションの行き違いを増幅しうることを示唆する。プルーストの『失われた時を求めて』の電話の場面も想起されるが、ラーナーのテクストに響いているのはオルフェウス的な喪失の抒情ではなく、言語というメディウムそのものに内在する、より根源的なコミュニケーションの失敗である。

“to be able to live your life without considering every action in the light of practical necessity seems to me an almost unacceptable privilege.”

― Rachel Cusk, Parade

#SundaySentence

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百韻。なぜわたし（小夏）がここにいるのか不明だが、この頃はまだツイッターがましだった。
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#nowreading
Mohammed Omer Almoghayer, “On the Pleasures of Living in Gaza: Remembering a Way of Life Now Destroyed”
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Bolaño’s Heresy: On Distant Star by Ben Lerner March 11, 2026 – “Maybe this is my own dream or projection, but when I read Bolaño’s flat, minimal descriptions of nonexistent verse, the prose begins to vibrate.”

Ben Lerner, “Bolaño’s Heresy: On Distant Star”
(“From the introduction to Roberto Bolaño’s Distant Star, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews, out from Picador in April.”)　#TheParisReview March 11, 2026
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Adapted for young readers, illustrated by H. B Vestal—Herman Melville's Moby Dick by Felix Sutton. Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap.

“I but put that brow before you. Read it if you can.”

#MelvilleMonday

“for here, millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls lie dreaming, dreaming, still”

— Moby-Dick, 111

#MelvilleMonday

“…all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like slumberers in their beds; the ever-rolling waves but made so by their restlessness.”

#MelvilleMonday

“For I believe that much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are.”

— Moby-Dick, 80
#MelvilleMonday

“Almost every part of need is created by a reflex, phantasmal”

— Richard Powers, The Overstory

#SundaySentence