13 maggio - Appunti

the history of melancholia

includes all of us. 

me, I writhe in dirty sheets

while staring at blue walls

and nothing. 

I have gotten so used to melancholia

that 

I greet it like an old 

friend. 

(Charles Bukowski - Melancholia)

I'll be your mirror, reflect what you are, in case you don't know.
(The Velvet Underground)

"There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whosoever snatches a delusion from a woman."

(Arthur Conan Doyle - A case of identity)

Almost everyone is out along with most of the voyages, the people that we knew and loved and the things they and they alone knew. […]

They ski much better now and some break their legs and some break their hearts. The latter is important and unfortunate and some good philosophers explain how you can not break them if they were not there and something happened and they did not exist. the important thing is that they should ski better and they do.

(Ernest Hemingway - A moveable feast)

"Stern all! Oh Moby Dick, I clutch thy heart at last!"

(Herman Mellville - Moby Dick)

Las cosas cambiaron porque el mundo cambió. Y los poetas, de pronto, encabezamos la rebelión de la alegría.

(Pablo Neruda - Confieso que he vivido)

Una storia di lente e millenarie migrazioni, forse così si erano mossi gli atlantidi del continente Mu, in ostinato e possessivo vagabondaggio, dalla Tasmania alla Groenlandia, dal Capricorno al Cancro, dall'Isola del Principe Edoardo alle Svalbard. La punta ripeteva, narrava di nuovo in un tempo assai contratto, quello che essi avevano fatto dall'una all'altra glaciazione, e forse facevano ancora, ormai corrieri dei Signori - forse nel percorso tra le Samoa e la Nuova Zemlia la punta sfiorava, nella sua posizione di equilibrio, Agarttha, il Centro del Mondo.

(Umberto Eco - Il pendolo di Foucault)