From the Archive
“The first set had ended things. The second was just to let the air in.”
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“Palestinianism was for Said a condition of chronic exile, exile as agony but also as ethical position.”
“Keeping a journal is a perilous thing, and we should be warned against it as children.”
A fictive essay on the novelist, painter—and creator of Moomins—Tove Jansson.
“the revolution needs a bigger space / so that the same tragedy cannot repeat itself”
“it was great to be a little sick with fear but / it’s better to be alive with a driver’s license”
“On the mattress, my eyes fixed on the bulb, I waited and waited and no one came.”