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— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra — Joseph Lorusso, Playing Their Song —

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portraits of pat

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a graduate student in philosophy at the university of toronto wrote a program to strip occurrences of “unintentional haiku” from corpuses of text and:

> Snow falls, and is white; > the falling is a process, > the whiteness is not. > (Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind) > > The game, one would like > to say, has not only rules > but also a point. > (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations) > > No Grandfather, no > Father; no Father, no Tim; > no Tim, no killing. > (David Lewis, “The Paradoxes of Time Travel”) > > Suppose that I cling > to some rock as a mere means > of escaping death. > (Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons) > > We sometimes say: in > later life I will be a > different person. > (David Lewis, “Survival and Identity”) > > You have an auto > accident one winter night > on a lonely road. > (Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere) > > When I turn my eye > inward, I find nothing but > doubt and ignorance. > (David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature)

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Alexander Koltakov

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"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

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Magnolia (oil on canvas), List, Wilhelm (1864-1918)

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Abram Molarsky - The Storm (1934) Fishing Boats Setting Sail - Theo van Rysselberghe - (1887)

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Black Cat sitting in a box at an old bookstore in Mexico City (2016)

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october by louise glück

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Glennon Doyle, Untamed

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Marie Howe, How Some of It Happened

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Maram al-Massri, from A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor (trans. Khaled Mattawa) [ID'd]

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Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter to Mrs. Maria Clemm, July 1849

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a small-sized mystery by Jane Hirshfield