July 2011
9 posts
[28 January 1908]
When I look at you, what I see is not the kissable and embraceable part of you, although it is so fine to look at, with the silken toss of hair curling over your ears. What I see is the deep spirit within. That I love and can go on loving all my life… Look, you are a nun, I give you what I would...
“Maturity means that you begin to fuse what is possible with what you wanted and also to see that your demands are often very exaggerated and very inhuman to others.”
from a great book of Anais Nin’s lectures, seminars and interviews, A Woman Speaks.
“Sensitive people, people who feel, want to unite in some deeper, subtler, more durable fashion than is permitted by custom and convention.”
from H. Miller’s Sexus
today's word:
abstemious \ab-ˈstē-mē-əs\ , adj.
1. marked by restraint especially in the consumption of food or alcohol
Walking Around
Sucede que me canso de ser hombre. Sucede que entro en las sastrerías y en los cines marchito, impenetrable, como un cisne de fieltro Navegando en un agua de origen y ceniza.
El olor de las peluquerías me hace llorar a gritos. Sólo quiero un descanso de piedras o de lana, sólo quiero no ver establecimientos ni jardines, ni mercaderías, ni anteojos, ni ascensores.
Sucede...