SOME APHORISMS AND THOUGHTS

APHORISM I

Leggings are either the greatest invention or the worst-

Depending on who is wearing them…

APHORISM II

The human detritus of the world washes up on the twin shores of Cambridge and Harvard Square

APHORISM III

Love is sometime bitter sometime sweet - but never bland.

THOUGHTS

“I loved her, I thought then, more than I should ever be able to love anyone ever. And [she] had stupidly lost [me]…" John Mortimer

“I need only hear certain words, see certain gestures, and my thoughts begin to tumble. I despise myself for thinking of her. Even if she were dead I would feel the same. Her existence blackens my life.”  James Salter

"There are ways and ways to have a love affair. Above all, one must not be serious about it." Plath

"Writing breaks open the vaults of the dead ....." Plath

MA FAMILLE

AN END TO LOVE

For the sword outwears its sheath,

And the soul wears out the breast.

And the heart must pause to breathe,

And love itself have rest. 

 *****
The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and till action, lust 
Is perjur'd, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust;
Enjoyed no sooner but despised straight;
Past reason hunted...
 

A PARAPHARESE - ON BEING 27

“Twenty-seven is old,” as she is -  and while that may in some sense be true, it is also true that 27 is not as old as it used to be. A few short generations ago members of the American middle class could be expected to reach that age in possession of a career, a spouse and at least one child, unless they were rock stars, in which case they would be dead.

But for some losers, post-collegiate New Jersey types, precocity and ignorance has become its own form of arrested development.

She is clever in some ways and perhaps curious, but also complacent, content to drift through jobs and relationships as she camouflages  her anxiety with easy sarcasm and overdone enthusiasm and meaningless drifting from one lover to another.

FALSE TREASURES

                                                                             

J'ai conserve de faux tresors dans des armoires vides. Un navire inutile joint mon enfance a mon ennui. Mes jeux a la fatigue

"Comme deux gouttes d'eau"

Paul Eluard

LE PRINTEMPS EST ARRIVÉ

The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing [of birds] is come,

 and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

READING AND RE-READING - BOOKS FROM MY LIBRARY

 

THE LIBRARY

                                                                            

                                                  What do you read? Why do you read?

                      I find my reading has shifted over the years in both what I read and why I read.

READING CURRENTLY  - 

Anne Ernaux - Things Seen

Renata Adler - Speedboat

Lyndall Gordon - T.S. Eliot An Imperfect Life

RE-READ RECENTLY - 

C.P Snow - The light and the Dark;

C.P. Snow - The Masters

Plath - The Unabridged Diaries of Sylvia Plath