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[RVillan @RVillan5]

@nbcsnl @StevieNicks Say Hello to the Angels-INTERPOL Musical Guest in December!!
https://t.co/prs3mDTuMG

[Interpol @Interpol]

Our third Brooklyn show at @brooklynsteel is on sale now! This will be the final date added to our Antics 20th anniversary run. Who’s coming?

https://t.co/U54gV6Jjrf

[RVillan @RVillan5]

@nbcsnl
Bring INTERPOL to perform in December!!!
https://t.co/prs3mDTuMG

[Interpol @Interpol]

Our third Brooklyn show at @brooklynsteel is on sale now! This will be the final date added to our Antics 20th anniversary run. Who’s coming?

https://t.co/U54gV6Jjrf

[Laurence Laluyaux @LLaluyaux]

Yesterday László Krasznahorkai received the prestigious Prix Formentor 2024. He thanked Kafka whose novel THE CASTLE he read age 12 in the hope that his brother’s friends would accept him in their circle, thereby sealing his own fate @FundFormentor @Acantilado1999 @rcwlitagency

[Just Joyce @johnstonglenn]

Samuel & Beckett, a graphic biography by Javier Olivares and Jorge Carrion, will be published by Salamandra Graphic in February 2025.

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

The Aztec sun stone photographed by William Henry Jackson in Mexico City, 1884.

This monumental circular sculpture, known as the "Aztec Calendar Stone" or "Sun Stone," is one of the most iconic pieces of Mesoamerican art. Carved from basalt, the stone contains intricate symbols that represent various aspects of the Aztec cosmology, including the four previous eras of the world and the gods associated with them. The central figure is thought to be Tonatiuh, the sun god, with his tongue represented by a sacrificial blade, indicating his thirst for blood offerings.

Surrounding the central figure are the symbols for the four previous epochs or "suns" in Aztec mythology, with representations of different natural disasters that marked the end of each era. The outermost ring features depictions of the 20 days of the Aztec calendar, while serpentine figures encircle the composition, symbolizing the cyclical nature of time and the cosmos.

The Aztec civilization, known for its sophisticated mathematical, astronomical, and religious systems, believed time operated in cyclical periods. This stone was likely a ceremonial piece, perhaps lying horizontally in the central plaza of Tenochtitlan. It was most likely not used as a functional calendar but rather as a cosmological representation of the universe.

[literland @literlandweb1]

El 24 de agosto se celebra el Día del Lector como homenaje al nacimiento de #Borges en esa fecha de 1899. Celebremos de la mejor manera posible: leyendo.

[Alain Delon Society @DelonSociety]

Farewell, friend. You will always be in my heart 🖤

RIP #AlainDelon

[RVillan @RVillan5]

una bomba que..
otra bomba que..

no contaban las horas,

ni los cuerpos que..
ni los niños que..

no llegaban tus oras,

lastima,

el viento se comio todo.

[Andrei @TheUntranslated]

Why do we need the humanities?

So that one person with a hum. degree can write Schattenfroh, 2nd one with a hum. degree can review it, 3rd one with a hum. degree can translate it, 4th one with a hum. degree can edit the translation and 5th one with a hum. degree can publish it

[RVillan @RVillan5]

"A senate, Time’s worst statute, unrepealed—
Are graves from which a glorious Phantom may
Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day." England, 1819. PB Shelley, born today, 1792

[RVillan @RVillan5]

"A people starved and stabbed in th' untilled field;
An army, whom liberticide and prey
Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield;
Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay;
Religion Christless, Godless—a book sealed;"

[RVillan @RVillan5]

"An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King;
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring;
Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know,
But leechlike to their fainting country cling
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow."

[RVillan @RVillan5]

"It is not a racial problem. It's a problem of whether or not you're willing to look at your life and be responsible for it, and then begin to change it." James Baldwin, born today, 1924.

[RVillan @RVillan5]

"All Fame is patronage. Let me be infamous: there is no patronage in that. What "reputation" H.M. has is horrible." Letter to N.H. 1851. HM born today, 1819.

[Rhys Tranter @RhysTranter]

“Birth was the death of him”
—
13 April 2021 marks 115 years since the birth of Irish writer, playwright, and Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett.

https://t.co/iNrCIrys2s

[City Lights Books @CityLightsBooks]

"The greatest poem is lyric life itself."

Our poet and hero, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, passed away on Monday, February 22nd, in the evening.

We love you, Lawrence. 💖

https://t.co/h5QuVgbo4c

[Samuel Beckett @samuelbbeckett]

HAMM: Do you not think this has gone on long enough?
CLOV: Yes! [Pause.] What?
HAMM: This... this... thing.
CLOV: I’ve always thought so. [Pause.] You not?
HAMM [gloomily]: Then it’s a day like any other day.
CLOV: As long as it lasts. [Pause.] All life long the same inanities.

[RVillan @RVillan5]

'The letter X
Was made to vex.'
'Request a Pill
When you are ill.'
'A careless No
Leads on to woe.'
'With every Yawn
A moment's gone.'
From 'The Eclectic Abecedarium'
Remember, 'There is an Eye
Up in the sky.'
#604D

[RVillan @RVillan5]

Gorey's 'TUH' libro has me pensive: 'Mr. Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through his mind: anguish-illness-defeat-no parties-loss-distance-fever-elsewards'. #604D