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Cover of Die Fackel (The Torch) - A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. —Karl Kraus While at the beginning Die Fackel was similar to journals like the magazine Weltbühne, it became more and more a magazine that was privileged in its editorial independence, which Kraus could provide by his funding. Die Fackel printed what Kraus wanted to be printed. In its first decade, contributors included many well-known writers and artists such as Peter Altenberg, Richard Dehmel, Egon Friedell, Oskar Kokoschka, Else Lasker-Schüler, Adolf Loos, Heinrich Mann, Arnold Schönberg, August Strindberg, Georg Trakl, Frank Wedekind, Franz Werfel, Houston Stewart Chamberlain and Oscar Wilde. After 1911, however, Kraus was usually the sole author. Kraus’ work was published nearly exclusively in Die Fackel, of which 922 irregularly-issued numbers appeared in total. Authors who were supported by Kraus include Peter Altenberg, Else Lasker-Schüler, and Georg Trakl. Die Fackel targeted corruption, journalists and brutish behaviour. (Source: Wikipedia)

Cover of Die Fackel (The Torch) -

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. —Karl Kraus

While at the beginning Die Fackel was similar to journals like the magazine Weltbühne, it became more and more a magazine that was privileged in its editorial independence, which Kraus could provide by his funding. Die Fackel printed what Kraus wanted to be printed. In its first decade, contributors included many well-known writers and artists such as Peter Altenberg, Richard Dehmel, Egon Friedell, Oskar Kokoschka, Else Lasker-Schüler, Adolf Loos, Heinrich Mann, Arnold Schönberg, August Strindberg, Georg Trakl, Frank Wedekind, Franz Werfel, Houston Stewart Chamberlain and Oscar Wilde. After 1911, however, Kraus was usually the sole author. Kraus’ work was published nearly exclusively in Die Fackel, of which 922 irregularly-issued numbers appeared in total. Authors who were supported by Kraus include Peter Altenberg, Else Lasker-Schüler, and Georg Trakl. Die Fackel targeted corruption, journalists and brutish behaviour. (Source: Wikipedia)



What did we do yesterday?

  • VLADIMIR: We're waiting for Godot.
  • ESTRAGON: (despairingly). Ah! (Pause.) You're sure it was here?
  • VLADIMIR: What?
  • ESTRAGON: That we were to wait.
  • VLADIMIR: He said by the tree. (They look at the tree.) Do you see any others?
  • ESTRAGON: What is it?
  • VLADIMIR: I don't know. A willow.
  • ESTRAGON: Where are the leaves?
  • VLADIMIR: It must be dead.
  • ESTRAGON: No more weeping.
  • VLADIMIR: Or perhaps it's not the season.
  • ESTRAGON: Looks to me more like a bush.
  • VLADIMIR: A shrub.
  • ESTRAGON: A bush.
  • VLADIMIR: A—. What are you insinuating? That we've come to the wrong place?
  • ESTRAGON: He should be here.
  • VLADIMIR: He didn't say for sure he'd come.
  • ESTRAGON: And if he doesn't come?
  • VLADIMIR: We'll come back tomorrow.
  • ESTRAGON: And then the day after tomorrow.
  • VLADIMIR: Possibly.
  • ESTRAGON: And so on.
  • VLADIMIR: The point is—
  • ESTRAGON: Until he comes.
  • VLADIMIR: You're merciless.
  • ESTRAGON: We came here yesterday.
  • VLADIMIR: Ah no, there you're mistaken.
  • ESTRAGON: What did we do yesterday?
  • VLADIMIR: What did we do yesterday?
  • ESTRAGON: Yes.
That’s me up there on that list of the world’s 2,000 real people along with John Lennon & Soupy Sales. I do have a text printout - this was in most head shops back in those days, don’t know if any remember it.

That’s me up there on that list of the world’s 2,000 real people along with John Lennon & Soupy Sales. I do have a text printout - this was in most head shops back in those days, don’t know if any remember it.

Manuscript page: Ulysses, James Joyce.

Manuscript page: Ulysses, James Joyce.

All you guys ever blog are l i e s.

lexos:

creato:

All you guys ever blog are l i e s.

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in the context of 1000 penguins, this is most important: you see, the penguins have got so much time at their hands - there’s a constant need to keep yourselves occupied until the rescuers arrive. which may be - never. and you can’t read all the time! etsy is one of their favorite sites. they did feel sad that none of these necklaces resembled a penguin, though. bookspaperscissors: Teapot, Milk Jug, Hook, Blender, Chair, Staple Gun, Radio, Beer Bottle and Underpants necklaces from ballandchain

in the context of 1000 penguins, this is most important: you see, the penguins have got so much time at their hands - there’s a constant need to keep yourselves occupied until the rescuers arrive. which may be - never. and you can’t read all the time! etsy is one of their favorite sites. they did feel sad that none of these necklaces resembled a penguin, though.

bookspaperscissors:

Teapot, Milk Jug, Hook, Blender, Chair, Staple Gun, Radio, Beer Bottle and Underpants necklaces from ballandchain

Good Readers and Good Writers

yeahwriters:

by Vladamir Nabokov (1948)

My course, among other things, is a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures.

“How to be a Good Reader” or “Kindness to Authors”—something of that sort might serve to provide a subtitle for these various discussions of various authors, for my plan is to deal lovingly, in loving and lingering detail, with several European Masterpieces. A hundred years ago, Flaubert in a letter to his mistress made the following remark: Commel’on serait savant si l’on connaissait bien seulement cinq a six livres: “What a scholar one might be if one knew well only some half a dozen books.”

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The Philosophical Novel

In this NYT article Ryerson refers to a number of my favorite authors and philosophers. i find it interesting that there may be both an interest and a market for the “philosophical novel” perhaps because that is what i also would like to write. i also like the quote by goldstein: [when you write such a novel] you don’t just understand, but “you feel the problem”. breaks through the show/tell barrier - if you’ve felt it you can sing it: “What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.” (kierkegaard, either/or)

marcello really had the soul and demeanor of a princely penguin. he’d have liked kaffe in katmandu, too. fritzlang: interwar | greenkneehighs: Marcello Mastorianni refused to wear anything other than a suit until people learned how to dress well in public again. He remained beautifully tailored until the day he died.

marcello really had the soul and demeanor of a princely penguin. he’d have liked kaffe in katmandu, too.

fritzlang:

interwar | greenkneehighs:

Marcello Mastorianni refused to wear anything other than a suit until people learned how to dress well in public again. He remained beautifully tailored until the day he died.

(via fleurdechair)

Penguin Nation Poster.

Penguin Nation Poster.