Favorite reads of 2025, #15.
#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
“‘All things were made by him; / and without him was not any thing made that was made.’ What does that mean? The Word was there before God. Or: God was first within it, as Word….
Elements of psychogeography and occult possibilities are woven in, they say. #MichaelLentz
Finished #Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
#MaxLawton, translator
Traveling the slough of despond, but laying down this part of my burden.
Finished #Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
The conflict with the earthly father and the one with the heavenly Father, the liberation promised in the Word and the liberation promised in the word, and the primacy of the text as it relates to the individual.
Finished #Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
Fissures run through the image, something bulges outward here, the schism goes right through the middle of the word, holes like moth-damage, white spots, themselves further script, whisper to me, I read them out with pecking eye….
#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
There are no Ten Commandments. Dekalos means the “ten-word" or, perhaps, the "tenfold word"—das Zehnwort.
#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
According to Augustine, the soul is the actual human being…Descartes says the soul can exist separate from the body, it is the I…Might it actually be that an earthly part of ourselves, the soul, is already part of the hereafter?
Back home, back to #Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
If the Voice of God is the bridge between God and Man, then Man is the walker to and fro upon this bridge…In prayer, he wishes to call God down to him…God does not appear outside the human body…but within…The other—God—is in my voice.
#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
“without him was not any thing made that was made." What does that mean? The Word was there before God. Or:God was first within it…As God,it named and called into being by naming-even itself.Thus did the world arise as the difference between Wordgod and Godword.
#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
“There are three of us," Mateo says…”we were two from the start and…still are, you and you and I." I look at the third…”He is the second keeper that you are," Mateo says. "So, I'm guarding myself, watching myself," I say. "Doesn't everybody do that?" Mateo asks.
#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
…death dances ever with us, it is the shadow rushing up ahead that we drag along behind us, that's beneath us….
#EmilAlzamora
Museum Of Contemporary Art
Jacksonville, FL
#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
…Schattenfroh never written, but always only mediated…its white script is sacrosanct, the black script…overwrites it…Schattenfroh is to be deprinted with white ink…page by page, line by line, letter by letter.
WHAT?!
#Lentz25 #Schattenfroh Part 5
#MichaelLentz #DeepVellum translated by #MaxLawton #SchattenfrohSeptember #OhSchattefrohOctober
#readinganactofsharedsolitude #beedoubleokayess📚🐦 #paperpills🇵🇸❤️ #ReemReel #AThingOfBeauty www.instagram.com/reel/DPurHtL...
#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
The goal is freedom from the Word, which is exterior, the goal is the effect of the inner word….
#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
How can one go through something and, simultaneously, have gone in the opposite direction, without going in a circle…we must have paced out a palindrome toward its middle, for the space we are now entering proceeds from the opposite side of the former entrance.
#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
As I have no soul, my mother says, my son therefore represented me as headless and bodiless…she's only a mother after all…she's no woman at all, mother is the third sex…
#EmilAlzamora
Museum Of Contemporary Art
Jacksonville, FL
#Lentz25 #Schattenfroh Part 4
#MichaelLentz #DeepVellum translated by #MaxLawton
#readinganactofsharedsolitude #beedoubleokayess📚🐦 #paperpills🇵🇸❤️ #ReemReel #AThingOfBeauty www.instagram.com/reel/DPkQjnh...
#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
He fell silent…But if he hadn't fallen silent, that still wouldn't have prevented the Holocaust.
#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
When I once asked him why he so likes going on walks, he said: to disappear into the landscape.
#Lentz25 #Schattenfroh Part 3 #MichaelLentz #DeepVellum translated by #MaxLawton #SchattenfrohSeptember
#readinganactofsharedsolitude #beedoubleokayess📚🐦 #paperpills🇵🇸❤️ #ReemReel #AThingOfBeauty www.instagram.com/reel/DPZFddS...
#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
I speak Satan's name, a cross appears before me…the cross grows larger with each utterance…it's a compulsion…I utter Satan's name once more, the cross is…closer to me…I enter into the cross. I hang from the cross…I feel a kind of Schadenfreude, no….
#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
Tell me something about Mommy and Daddy, I would tell the six-year-old…Do they treat you pretty nice…Are you happy at home? The child knows all too well what "home" is, but “happy"? Happy is when you've got no worries, I say. The child gives me a blank look.
#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
Your skin is the parchment…your life shall have become script, and people shall come from all over to read the script that God made appear….
#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
My father takes me out onto this lake...A little ways off, there is a red dot...turns out to be a red balloon...The balloon...my father says, is no balloon...Off in the distance, l see the balloon...My father laughs...The balloon is my mother's crimson head….
#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
Depending on the copy in question, Schattenfroh can smell and taste like various different things. Earthy like wild boar…putrid like overripe jackfruit…
So, what is it I am to eat? I eat Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka. Both take a long time to chew through.
#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
We shall have to build new arks before the flood of perceptions one day submerges us….
#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
…he painted the voice the Word…This image is the Word in operation. And thus has the Word brought me into being…Take and eat of the Book of Life….
