Takeshi Sudo
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プルーストの命日ということで、昔、墓参りした時の写真を。
November 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
プルーストの命日ということで、昔、墓参りした時の写真を。
“The night has come to me
exactly this way, as a premonition—”
—— Louise Glück, from “Landscape” (“Averno”)
exactly this way, as a premonition—”
—— Louise Glück, from “Landscape” (“Averno”)
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“The night has come to me
exactly this way, as a premonition—”
—— Louise Glück, from “Landscape” (“Averno”)
exactly this way, as a premonition—”
—— Louise Glück, from “Landscape” (“Averno”)
Reposted by Takeshi Sudo
“In its gusts it bears a broth of little beasts—birds, beetles, spiders tethered to their skeins of silk, seeds in forms of puffs and parachutes.”
Daniel Mason
📖 North Woods, page 207.
#SundaySentence
Daniel Mason
📖 North Woods, page 207.
#SundaySentence
November 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“In its gusts it bears a broth of little beasts—birds, beetles, spiders tethered to their skeins of silk, seeds in forms of puffs and parachutes.”
Daniel Mason
📖 North Woods, page 207.
#SundaySentence
Daniel Mason
📖 North Woods, page 207.
#SundaySentence
“You can’t see what you don’t understand. But what you think you already understand, you’ll fail to notice.”
—— Richard Powers, The Overstory
—— Richard Powers, The Overstory
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“You can’t see what you don’t understand. But what you think you already understand, you’ll fail to notice.”
—— Richard Powers, The Overstory
—— Richard Powers, The Overstory
“I think his broad brow to be full of a prairie-like placidity, born of a speculative indifference as to death.”
—— Moby-Dick, 75
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
—— Moby-Dick, 75
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
November 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“I think his broad brow to be full of a prairie-like placidity, born of a speculative indifference as to death.”
—— Moby-Dick, 75
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
—— Moby-Dick, 75
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
“That mysteries can become more mysterious if you think about them with precision and method, he did not yet know.”
—— Cees Nooteboom, Rituals (tr. Adrienne Dixon)
#sundaysentence
—— Cees Nooteboom, Rituals (tr. Adrienne Dixon)
#sundaysentence
November 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
“That mysteries can become more mysterious if you think about them with precision and method, he did not yet know.”
—— Cees Nooteboom, Rituals (tr. Adrienne Dixon)
#sundaysentence
—— Cees Nooteboom, Rituals (tr. Adrienne Dixon)
#sundaysentence
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
“A paradoxical, cyclic motion it may seem: particulars are understood via the whole and the whole via particulars.”
— Peter Cornell, THE WAYS OF PARADISE, I - 23
(Translated by SASKIA VOGEL, Fitzcarraldo Editions)
— Peter Cornell, THE WAYS OF PARADISE, I - 23
(Translated by SASKIA VOGEL, Fitzcarraldo Editions)
November 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“A paradoxical, cyclic motion it may seem: particulars are understood via the whole and the whole via particulars.”
— Peter Cornell, THE WAYS OF PARADISE, I - 23
(Translated by SASKIA VOGEL, Fitzcarraldo Editions)
— Peter Cornell, THE WAYS OF PARADISE, I - 23
(Translated by SASKIA VOGEL, Fitzcarraldo Editions)
“I grew up in New England, and I was always sort of haunted by Melville’s presence. And I think one of the wonderful things in that book was that he never compromised.”
— Ocean Vuong (in conversation with Tommy Orange)
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#MelvilleMonday
— Ocean Vuong (in conversation with Tommy Orange)
www.cityarts.net/event/ocean-...
#MelvilleMonday
Ocean Vuong | City Arts & Lectures
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November 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
“I grew up in New England, and I was always sort of haunted by Melville’s presence. And I think one of the wonderful things in that book was that he never compromised.”
— Ocean Vuong (in conversation with Tommy Orange)
www.cityarts.net/event/ocean-...
#MelvilleMonday
— Ocean Vuong (in conversation with Tommy Orange)
www.cityarts.net/event/ocean-...
#MelvilleMonday
November 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Living in Europe, but borders blur when it comes to Pynchon — so yes, the US edition it is.
#ThomasPynchon #ShadowTicket
#ThomasPynchon #ShadowTicket
October 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Living in Europe, but borders blur when it comes to Pynchon — so yes, the US edition it is.
#ThomasPynchon #ShadowTicket
#ThomasPynchon #ShadowTicket
October 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
“there is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows”
—— Moby-Dick, 42: The Whiteness of The Whale
#MelvilleMonday
—— Moby-Dick, 42: The Whiteness of The Whale
#MelvilleMonday
October 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“there is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows”
—— Moby-Dick, 42: The Whiteness of The Whale
#MelvilleMonday
—— Moby-Dick, 42: The Whiteness of The Whale
#MelvilleMonday
“The continuous cycle of pronominal expansion and contraction is the heart of writing for me, it is the time of writing, the filling and emptying of the chambers of the art.”
—— Ben Lerner, Cardiography
#SundaySentence
—— Ben Lerner, Cardiography
#SundaySentence
October 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“The continuous cycle of pronominal expansion and contraction is the heart of writing for me, it is the time of writing, the filling and emptying of the chambers of the art.”
—— Ben Lerner, Cardiography
#SundaySentence
—— Ben Lerner, Cardiography
#SundaySentence
“and turned me to admire the magnanimity of the sea which will permit no records.”
—— Moby Dick, CHAPTER 13
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
—— Moby Dick, CHAPTER 13
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
October 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
“and turned me to admire the magnanimity of the sea which will permit no records.”
—— Moby Dick, CHAPTER 13
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
—— Moby Dick, CHAPTER 13
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
“ミツバチたちは、花々が折りたたまれた状態で生まれることを知っている。「折りたたむ」とは、もとにあったものを折り曲げて重ね、小さくすることであるが、花々の場合、もとにあったものは、発生のときには存在しない。この起源の秘密と記憶が、甘い蜜を生むのだ”
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見えないものを集めるミツバチ
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October 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“ミツバチたちは、花々が折りたたまれた状態で生まれることを知っている。「折りたたむ」とは、もとにあったものを折り曲げて重ね、小さくすることであるが、花々の場合、もとにあったものは、発生のときには存在しない。この起源の秘密と記憶が、甘い蜜を生むのだ”
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“Freedom is the preservation of that original personal isolation. It stems from fetal self-entanglement, so similar to the movement made by fern buds in their tiny croziers before they unfold.”
—— Pascal Quignard, The Answer to Lord Chandos （Translated by Stéphanie Boulard and Timothy Lavenz)
—— Pascal Quignard, The Answer to Lord Chandos （Translated by Stéphanie Boulard and Timothy Lavenz)
October 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“Freedom is the preservation of that original personal isolation. It stems from fetal self-entanglement, so similar to the movement made by fern buds in their tiny croziers before they unfold.”
—— Pascal Quignard, The Answer to Lord Chandos （Translated by Stéphanie Boulard and Timothy Lavenz)
—— Pascal Quignard, The Answer to Lord Chandos （Translated by Stéphanie Boulard and Timothy Lavenz)
Reposted by Takeshi Sudo
August 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
#SundaySentence
“once a picture is finished the picture says whatever it can say, no more no less, the picture says in its silent way whatever can be said, and if it's not finished yet then how it's going to turn out and what it's going to say isn't something that can be said in words”
“once a picture is finished the picture says whatever it can say, no more no less, the picture says in its silent way whatever can be said, and if it's not finished yet then how it's going to turn out and what it's going to say isn't something that can be said in words”
October 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
#SundaySentence
“once a picture is finished the picture says whatever it can say, no more no less, the picture says in its silent way whatever can be said, and if it's not finished yet then how it's going to turn out and what it's going to say isn't something that can be said in words”
“once a picture is finished the picture says whatever it can say, no more no less, the picture says in its silent way whatever can be said, and if it's not finished yet then how it's going to turn out and what it's going to say isn't something that can be said in words”
Reposted by Takeshi Sudo
Playground was released in paperback with W. W. Norton today, so we’ve unlocked this piece by Joy Williams on Richard Powers’ thrilling and affecting novel The Overstory →
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@wwnorton.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Playground was released in paperback with W. W. Norton today, so we’ve unlocked this piece by Joy Williams on Richard Powers’ thrilling and affecting novel The Overstory →
books.substack.com/p/review-joy...
@wwnorton.com
books.substack.com/p/review-joy...
@wwnorton.com
“At its best, it(literature) used language to break out of language, into something more like music.”
—— Brad Mehldau, Formation: Building a Personal Canon, Part I
#SundaySentence
—— Brad Mehldau, Formation: Building a Personal Canon, Part I
#SundaySentence
September 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
“At its best, it(literature) used language to break out of language, into something more like music.”
—— Brad Mehldau, Formation: Building a Personal Canon, Part I
#SundaySentence
—— Brad Mehldau, Formation: Building a Personal Canon, Part I
#SundaySentence
“That world, as I say, looks very much like our own, and nevertheless it maintains a side that is irreducible, at times even proudly secret.”
—— Alejandro Zambra, Not to Read
#sundaysentence
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—— Alejandro Zambra, Not to Read
#sundaysentence
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September 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM
“That world, as I say, looks very much like our own, and nevertheless it maintains a side that is irreducible, at times even proudly secret.”
—— Alejandro Zambra, Not to Read
#sundaysentence
fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/not-to...
—— Alejandro Zambra, Not to Read
#sundaysentence
fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/not-to...
“For this is one of those disheartening instances where truth requires full as much bolstering as error.”
—— Moby-Dick, CHAPTER 45
#MelvilleMonday
—— Moby-Dick, CHAPTER 45
#MelvilleMonday
September 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
“For this is one of those disheartening instances where truth requires full as much bolstering as error.”
—— Moby-Dick, CHAPTER 45
#MelvilleMonday
—— Moby-Dick, CHAPTER 45
#MelvilleMonday