Thomas J. Kitson
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
Translator from Russian to English. Iliazd, _Rapture_. 2019 NEA Translation Fellowship for Iliazd, _PhiloSophia_ (excerpts from Rab-Rab Press). Iliazd's _Speechless Sentence_ and excerpts from _parisites_ and _dUnkee fərEnt_ in _TYPO_ #7.
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bie bao zaum series volume 5 — Rab-Rab Press
www.rabrab.net
I'm happy this little volume came out this year. (Still working to find a publisher for all of _PhiloSophia_.) But I'm also glad I got to meet Sezgin Boynik in October, and I hope you'll consider purchasing any of the editions published by Rab-Rab Press.
www.rabrab.net/titles/biebao5
www.rabrab.net/titles/biebao5
As the first draught of wine doth comfort the stomacke, the second inflame the liuer, the third fume into the head: so the first sip of loue is pleasant, the second perillous, the pestilent.
#PalladisTamia #FrancisMeres
#PalladisTamia #FrancisMeres
November 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
As the first draught of wine doth comfort the stomacke, the second inflame the liuer, the third fume into the head: so the first sip of loue is pleasant, the second perillous, the pestilent.
#PalladisTamia #FrancisMeres
#PalladisTamia #FrancisMeres
The gun had been his master and controlled him, now he was master of the gun.
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
November 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The gun had been his master and controlled him, now he was master of the gun.
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
He had thus called her off and led her away; the more easily that the house within was above all what had already drawn round her its mystic circle.
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
November 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
He had thus called her off and led her away; the more easily that the house within was above all what had already drawn round her its mystic circle.
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
Instead of compressing himself to the gun, the gun fitted to him.
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
November 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Instead of compressing himself to the gun, the gun fitted to him.
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
She was the image of the wonderful Bronzino, which she must have a look at on every ground.
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
November 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
She was the image of the wonderful Bronzino, which she must have a look at on every ground.
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
He altered his posture in a moment, looked, and saw himself standing easily, upright but easily, and found that his heart beat without vibrating the barrel, as it will if the chest be contracted, and that breathing did not throw the gun out of level.
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
November 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
He altered his posture in a moment, looked, and saw himself standing easily, upright but easily, and found that his heart beat without vibrating the barrel, as it will if the chest be contracted, and that breathing did not throw the gun out of level.
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
It needed in short for Milly some evidence, which he only wanted to supply.
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
November 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
It needed in short for Milly some evidence, which he only wanted to supply.
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
But if I'm 'like' anything so beautiful as most of them seemed to me——!"
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
November 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
But if I'm 'like' anything so beautiful as most of them seemed to me——!"
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
It needs many years to do it: but you can stand upright at once.
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
November 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It needs many years to do it: but you can stand upright at once.
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
November 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Working through Blake's role in A.S. Byatt's _Babel Tower_ right now.
2/2 William Blake, whose birthday we are celebrating, painted by Thomas Phillips in 1807.
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Working through Blake's role in A.S. Byatt's _Babel Tower_ right now.
Reposted by Thomas J. Kitson
Steven: Everybody's tilted here. That's why you didn't know who I was. You can't tell the patients from the doctors.
Karen: Oh, but I can.
Steven: How?
Karen: The patients get better.
Happy birthday, Gloria Grahame—never more beautiful than in THE COBWEB (Minnelli, 1955)
Karen: Oh, but I can.
Steven: How?
Karen: The patients get better.
Happy birthday, Gloria Grahame—never more beautiful than in THE COBWEB (Minnelli, 1955)
November 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Steven: Everybody's tilted here. That's why you didn't know who I was. You can't tell the patients from the doctors.
Karen: Oh, but I can.
Steven: How?
Karen: The patients get better.
Happy birthday, Gloria Grahame—never more beautiful than in THE COBWEB (Minnelli, 1955)
Karen: Oh, but I can.
Steven: How?
Karen: The patients get better.
Happy birthday, Gloria Grahame—never more beautiful than in THE COBWEB (Minnelli, 1955)
Reposted by Thomas J. Kitson
“Music is the mirror of what is lost.”
— Pascal Quignard, Abysses
(trans. Chris Turner)
— Pascal Quignard, Abysses
(trans. Chris Turner)
November 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
“Music is the mirror of what is lost.”
— Pascal Quignard, Abysses
(trans. Chris Turner)
— Pascal Quignard, Abysses
(trans. Chris Turner)
Reposted by Thomas J. Kitson
“Fame” by Jorge Luis Borges
(trans. Alastair Reid)
(trans. Alastair Reid)
November 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“Fame” by Jorge Luis Borges
(trans. Alastair Reid)
(trans. Alastair Reid)
Reposted by Thomas J. Kitson
“Presence and absence are my wings. Impossible to separate myself from them. To transcribe my life, with one leap, invisible to myself: to be not altogether what I think I am, to escape way up there, to the last leaf, at the limit of the species.”
— Cixous, First Days of the Year (tr. MacGillivray)
— Cixous, First Days of the Year (tr. MacGillivray)
November 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“Presence and absence are my wings. Impossible to separate myself from them. To transcribe my life, with one leap, invisible to myself: to be not altogether what I think I am, to escape way up there, to the last leaf, at the limit of the species.”
— Cixous, First Days of the Year (tr. MacGillivray)
— Cixous, First Days of the Year (tr. MacGillivray)
Many good sportsmen by dint of twenty years' cramping educate their awkwardness to a successful pitch.
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
November 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Many good sportsmen by dint of twenty years' cramping educate their awkwardness to a successful pitch.
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
"Have you seen the picture in the house, the beautiful one that's so like you?"—he was asking that as he stood before her;
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"Have you seen the picture in the house, the beautiful one that's so like you?"—he was asking that as he stood before her;
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
Reposted by Thomas J. Kitson
The scale and depth of the attack on our institutions means that there is no simple way for a pro-democracy coalition to flip the lights back on after Trump. We need transformative thinking.
dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
The Case for a Third Reconstruction - Dissent Magazine
The scale and depth of the attack on our institutions means that there is no simple way for a pro-democracy coalition to flip the lights back on after Trump. We need transformative thinking.
dissentmagazine.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The scale and depth of the attack on our institutions means that there is no simple way for a pro-democracy coalition to flip the lights back on after Trump. We need transformative thinking.
dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
Now he understood how unsightly it had looked, and how difficult it is to shoot well in that way.
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
November 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Now he understood how unsightly it had looked, and how difficult it is to shoot well in that way.
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
XI
A prime reason, we must add, why sundry impressions were not to be fully present to the girl till later on was that they yielded at this stage, with an effect of sharp supersession, to a detached quarter of an hour—her only one—with Lord Mark.
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
A prime reason, we must add, why sundry impressions were not to be fully present to the girl till later on was that they yielded at this stage, with an effect of sharp supersession, to a detached quarter of an hour—her only one—with Lord Mark.
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
November 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
XI
A prime reason, we must add, why sundry impressions were not to be fully present to the girl till later on was that they yielded at this stage, with an effect of sharp supersession, to a detached quarter of an hour—her only one—with Lord Mark.
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
A prime reason, we must add, why sundry impressions were not to be fully present to the girl till later on was that they yielded at this stage, with an effect of sharp supersession, to a detached quarter of an hour—her only one—with Lord Mark.
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
He saw his frame arched forward, his back bent, his shoulders drawn together, the collar of his coat up to his poll behind, the entire position cramped and awkward.
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
November 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
He saw his frame arched forward, his back bent, his shoulders drawn together, the collar of his coat up to his poll behind, the entire position cramped and awkward.
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
One of the most frequent on the lips of the latter had been that dear Maud was a natural force.
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
November 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
One of the most frequent on the lips of the latter had been that dear Maud was a natural force.
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
"Meaning our three banking-house friends, L, S, and who's the junior partner? D?" said Mr. Skimpole brightly.
This reads even more comically in our post-psychedelic age. I wonder whether any writers played with this designation for Pounds, Shillings, and Pence and LSD? #APSTogether #BleakHouse
This reads even more comically in our post-psychedelic age. I wonder whether any writers played with this designation for Pounds, Shillings, and Pence and LSD? #APSTogether #BleakHouse
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"Meaning our three banking-house friends, L, S, and who's the junior partner? D?" said Mr. Skimpole brightly.
This reads even more comically in our post-psychedelic age. I wonder whether any writers played with this designation for Pounds, Shillings, and Pence and LSD? #APSTogether #BleakHouse
This reads even more comically in our post-psychedelic age. I wonder whether any writers played with this designation for Pounds, Shillings, and Pence and LSD? #APSTogether #BleakHouse