Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life.
Found Literary insults here.
Insults from literary greats such as Oscar Wilde and Jane Austen that pack so much more punch
Dutch newspaper AD says it has traced Giuseppe Ghislandi’s Portrait of a Lady to house near Buenos Aires
An excerpt from Patricia Lockwood’s new book Will There Ever Be Another You. “But the soul is a floor. It is there to bear us up and keep us standing, not merely to be clean.”
Nádas Péter Q & A
At hlo they have a Q & A with Péter Nádas: Cultural crises always sell.
Among his responses:
I buy far more books than I could ever read. According to Miklós Mészöly’s theory, books diffuse in mysterious ways over time, moving from the bookshelf into one’s head. There’s a lot of truth in this. We organize our books, stack them up, look for something, start reading something else we pick up.
Organizing books is an immense joy.
I need to be getting around to that, my shelves are giving way, I simply don’t have the strength for it anymore. Ultimately, when you’re busying about with your books, their spirit diffuses in some way. It’s silly, but no less the case.
A 1965 television interview with a 107-year-old Irish farmer (born in 1858) on all the changes he’s seen during his life. Q: “What would you say was the biggest change?” A: “Well, machinery.”
How the Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz Survived the Death Camps. “I have been gripped by a need to understand more not only about the women in the Auschwitz orchestra…but also what hearing music in this inferno meant to the other prisoners
