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The good twin of @__paleologo.
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Joined August 2009
Vultures in Montreal’s financial district circling over me. Signs taken as portents.
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"Altogether elsewhere, vast.Herds of reindeer move across.Miles and miles of golden moss,.Silently and very fast."
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“There have been hands laid on my shoulders . What has been said to me , . how has my life replied ?”
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In Naxos, candles in a church and immediately recalling a Kavafy’s poem. “And lights. a taper before the image of Our Lady. That the weather might be fair, and his return speedy”
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Partially disagreeing with this list (the peak of cinema is a very flat one), but enjoying its selection consistency, and the presence of many movie I have not watched yet.
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RT @daybreakjung: Han Yong-un (aka Manhae)—poet, Buddhist monk, and advocate for Korea’s freedom—ended his 1926 poetry collection "The Sile….
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Reading Kavafy writing aboard a ship, aboard a ship crossing the same sea. “Quickly done, on the deck of the ship: . an enchanting afternoon. The Ionian Sea all around us.”
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RT @GarettJones: Bought this last week for a friend who loves poetry-- Spanish language poets and modernists had been his gateway. This bo….
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I ate an apple.While no one was looking.
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Kavafy has words for you, on loneliness, desire, and connection. “And it seems to me you understood, . and you stayed somewhat longer purposely.”
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Going to Greece soon, the place made of sun and water. That is the Greece outside. But also taking with me these old friends. Knowing that Odysseus was, first, a memory. And that is the Greece inside.
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Saying the unsayable with Philip Larkin. “Something to do with violence.A long way back, and wrong rewards, And arrogant eternity.”
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