Wikipedia: Children playing Paperboy on the CPC 464 in 1988
Music, as an art, suffuses the soul of man with sweet regret, by giving it a glimpse of happiness; and a glimpse of happiness, even if it is no more than a dream of happiness, is almost the dawning of hope.
— Stendhal, from Life of Rossini
Ted Berrigan’s effacement of Pat Nolan’s review of a book by Phil Whalen in The Poetry Project Newsletter’s “Running Commentary,” December, 1981. Collection of Alice Notley.
half a year of unrelenting genocide in Gaza, please don’t stop caring. they are so tired, they cannot be the only ones participating in their own liberation. we have to keep caring
(via lacetiara)
aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman:
70s girls in their dorm rooms
[For the ancient physicians] “there is, of course, a time more favorable than others in the woman’s cycle. Not during menstrual evacuation, which constitutes a kind of natural vomiting, when the semen runs the risk of being swept out as well. Nor when the flow has completely stopped: the uterus, desiccated and chilled, is then no longer in a condition to receive the seed. The favorable time is when the flow is ceasing, so that the uterus is still moist with blood and permeated with warmth, and hence turgescent with a craving to receive the sperm. This craving, which reappears in the body after purgation, is manifested in the woman by a desire that disposes her to sexual intercourse.”
—Michel Foucault, from The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3: The Care of the Self
Hard to overstate my love for the new Hurray for the Riff Raff album “The Past Is Still Alive” and in the spirit of the title phrase I’ve been in a HFTRR YouTube-archive rabbit hole that I hope never ends
When you have lived with prophecy for so long, the moment of revelation is a shock.
- Dune