We identify so completely with our own suffering, then wish to visit our suffering upon others in turn. Makes one wish we could just have a nice simple fistfight and be done.
The End of Days – Jenny Erpenbeck
Sentences repeat as situations repeat. The sense of relief at yet another opportunity to imagine the future of a life that was lost is cut by the knowledge that loss will win out in the end.
BDSM is not inherently radical or alternative. It’s just a way of having sex.
Jaws without the shark.
How to Achieve a Quality Relationship with Your Waffle-maker
There are as many routes as there are individual souls. There are as many ways to make a waffle as there are waffle-makers.
Unlike many Apartheid novels that stick to one location or group, Black Diamond depicts a South Africa where every group is present and no powerful white man is in sight.
Captives speaks to Sebald’s call to stick within the register of memory, even if memory has been stripped of its supporting features.
Babelsprech International: Dutch Poetry, Part 2
Postmodernism means something different in Flanders than it does in the Netherlands.
I’ve found a certain willingness to carry on talking about smog. It’s not quite the weather, and yet it is, and it’s at once more innocent and existential than debating politics.
Full Stop editors recommend books, music, TV and films for your enjoyment. This round features Pagan priestesses, the great Koonklaster, & Christina Ricci chained to a radiator.