Rhythm.

Sarah Resnick · Enemy Language: Ágota Kristóf’s Secrets Kristóf’s books recognise human passions as dark things that can ensnare anyone. We have social norms, moral codes,...

‘Writing fiction seems to have cleared the mist from her memories, revealing a different kind of truth, one that aligned more closely to the history she had lived through. But some truths remained obscured.’

Sarah Resnick on the divided life of Ágota Kristóf.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Celeste Roberge’s sculpture “The Weight of Grief” #art

‘Few are the foreheads which like Shakespeare’s or Melanchthon’s rise so high, and descend so low, that the eyes themselves seem clear, eternal, tideless mountain lakes; and all above them in the forehead’s wrinkles, you seem to track the antler’s thoughts descending there to drink…’ #booksky

... but I was going to the dictionary on average every page two or three times, which I really enjoyed... Don't tell my students! Would love to listen to an audiobook version in almost any language that I vaguely know! (3/3).

what I missed but it doesn't have the same vibe so far... I wonder how it reads in German, too... (it's not the only book, even a French one, that I've finished in that period, but I just got into the habit of reading it once a week on my commute). The grammar isn't that difficult but I was (2/3)...

The promised land: after several years of reading the original French version of Butor's amazing La Modification, which takes place almost exclusively on a train, not to mention only being written exclusively in the second person singular. Now I'm starting the English translation to see (1/3)...

The gap.

Early Saturday morning: following the rules.

Peeking.

On the way to Omiya shrine.

I must be there again.

Miracle Mile: boy meets girl, romcom meets nuclear war This 80s thriller straddles both a charming love affair and the threat of impending apocalypse. Somehow, it all works

Excellent movie: www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Union City (1980) Guilty paranoia in a gritty 1950's industrial town. An accountant, living a repressed life, becomes so obsessed with the person who is stealing his morning milk that he commits an act of irrational vi...

For those who have been asking if the film "Union City" is available to stream (in connection with my book on the film, of course), then I've been advised it's currently available here: rarefilmm.com/2018/10/unio...

And then buy my book :)

Ribbed.

Cylinder apparition.

Narrow view reflection.

A new old one for me, Keith Jarrett, Staircase, 1976.

Kaneko Ayano (カネコアヤノ), '石の糸'('Stone thread') (solo version). Translations welcome! [This artist does solo versions of her band kanekoayano's albums to accompany the electrified band versions. I think I prefer the acoustic ones, on the whole.]

Amazing Paul Bowles story in which a snake features.

Hey, it's me!

Inigo Thomas | Pinter’s ‘American Football’ Redux Nine years ago, in the first years of Donald Trump's first presidency, I wrote about Harold Pinter's ranting poem ‘...

‘In the first years of Donald Trump’s first presidency, I wrote about Harold Pinter’s ranting poem ‘American Football’, and the way it anticipated the language of the president. Now more than ever, Pinter’s poem speaks to the Trump idiocy.’

Inigo Thomas on the blog.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...

In Ogose, Saitama.

Line-up.

Campus observations...

Variations. (Can't seem to post these in full intended format.)

Light and dark.

Ikebukuro, new building.

That was good. Catalogue of the 2005 National Gallery of Art/Detroit Institute of Arts exhibitions, 2005. Great plates and descriptions, and three wonderful essays by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., Alison McNeil Kettering, and Arie Wallert.