Thomas J. Kitson
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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.
I had another goal in mind, but found myself one day wandering around what I'm thinking of as PoMoParis. Here's Jardin Atlantique, above the Gare Montparnasse.
November 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The end of all my thinking is
The goal you have in mind:
An amiably winking phiz
And no child left behind.

Les très riches heures could put a stop
To what the present knows:
Increasing spam, abundant slop,
And vaunting Ortho Bros.
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Was passing by Gertrude Stein a little more than a week ago.
November 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Everyone's been here in Paris, right?
November 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
One of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux's pair of 1787 toll houses at the Barrière d'Enfer, and a portion of the frieze by Jean Guillaume Moitte.
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Yesterday at the Institute for Ideas & Imagination in Paris.
November 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Wandering west of the Luxembourg Gardens Friday evening.
November 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I like to see how extensive translation programs into French are. Spotted @jstheater.bsky.social 's _Punks_ in a local store window today.
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Speaking of Better Books, this shows up a bit later, copied into Frederica's notebook. I assume, again, Byatt's using a real document of the time. @ginsbergpoem.bsky.social @citylightsbooks.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Murals at Place Jacques Demy.
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Thomas Lovell Beddoes quoted in A.S. Byatt's _Babel Tower_ in a way that suggests we ought to have met it back in the first volume, _The Virgin in the Garden_, since Frederica brings it up as a kind of teenage talisman for imagining what love will be like.
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
A party at Frederica Potter's in A.S. Byatt's _Babel Tower_. Thinking @robertsheppard.bsky.social must know this mention of the British Poetry Revival?
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
On our walk yesterday, V. and I were desperately looking for some open space to catch the low sun's rays and wound up walking through the Montrouge Cemetery, where I was drawn to this overgrown grave. (May go back to look for Nicolas de Stael and Jurgis Baltrushaitis.)
October 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I've been taking different paths to my French classes. Today I rediscovered Villa Vassilieff, which I had happened on 7 years ago (it was in bad shape) and never been able to find again (it's been revived in the meantime).
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
October 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Omnia Sol Temperat
October 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The former site of Bal Bullier, where so many artists' balls, including many organized by #Iliazd and the Union of Russian Artists during the 1920s, were held.
October 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
As I understand, the modest exhibition concerns primarily Poésie de mots inconnus (1949) and the 1958 Series C of Marcel #Duchamp 's La Boîte-en-valise, which was produced and assembled by #Iliazd, but it looks like there's much more.
October 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I received from François Mairé some photos by Jürgen Eheim of the TOUTITÉ exhibition at the Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare in Bolzano. #Iliazd
October 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
And the conversation between Lady Dedlock and Mr. Tulkinghorn seems a model for late Henry James, although James would not sum it up by spelling out the effect of simultaneous communication and miscommunication for readers. #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
October 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Mr. Tulkinghorn has a room permanently reserved in Lady Dedlock's home, just as the Prophet Elisha had in the house of the Shunammite woman (another wealthy woman who also "has no son, and her husband is old"). #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
October 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
OK, now I'm really curious: Who's stocking my local Little Free Library?
October 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Wonderful paragraph on the superficial ridiculousness of a dandyism the current fashion believes it has outgrown without ceasing to impose ridiculous rules. #APublicSpace #APSTogether #BleakHouse
October 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I'm not normally a cute dog photo guy, but this doggy on his cushion patiently watching foot traffic (not much, when I passed) from the window of an antique shop was irresistible.
October 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The sky was fairly dramatic over Paris through much of the afternoon, although I never encountered any precipitation even worthy of being called a sprinkle--just occasional fine mist. Thinking of those Constable cloud studies.
October 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The brightness of Sacré Coeur in the distance surprised me (at the extreme southern end of the Luxembourg Garden, with all the brown pruned chestnuts).
October 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM