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The United States vetoed a widely backed U.N. resolution Thursday that would have paved the way for full United Nations membership for Palestine, a goal the Palestinians have long sought and Israel has worked to prevent.

The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 12 in favor, the United States opposed and two abstentions, from the United Kingdom and Switzerland. U.S. allies France, Japan and South Korea supported the resolution. (source) (source) (source)

After the vetoed U.N. membership vote, the Palestinian Ambassador, Riyad Mansour, gave an emotional speech demanding Palestinian statehood. Vanessa Frazier, the Security Council President from Malta, can be seen wiping a tear from her eye. (more)

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LIEKELAND (@liekevandervorst)

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I just wanna be…

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When men justify their own aggressiveness with the good old “I was defending you”…

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Semblanza alfabética*

Semblanza alfabética. Un ejercicio del OuLiPo en un taller que tomé en 2021.

Ambivalente bajo condiciones delirantes. Extraña fantasiosa. ¿Gustos? Historias imposibles, jazz, kioskos luminosos. Morgana nací, ñublosa. Otra para quienes restan sustancia. Temerosa. Ultramarina. Woolfiana. Xenofílica. Yo, zarpazo. -LFM *Este texto lo escribí en el Laboratorio de escritura experimental Frontera en noviembre de 2021, como un ejercicio del OuLiPo.

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To scale, AnonyMouse

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Collateral, Andrew Interisano

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I always love what she writes.

“This is the great and terrifying truth about the creative life: Anything we make — all this longing for beauty and meaning, all these reckonings and raptures, these most passionate and personal fragments of being — is just a tiny seed compacting everything we are, blown into the wind that is the world.”

— Maria Popova, from “Rebecca Solnit on Writing, Gardening, and the Life of the Mind,” The Marginalian (24 June 2022)

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Or Tuesdays...

Happy Mondays, Steinberg

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#marguerite yourcenar

"Avevamo entrambi la passione di abbellire indi denudare le nostre anime, di mettere il nostro spirito a prove d'ogni genere. Ella era incline alla filosofia di Epicuro, quel giaciglio angusto ma pulito, sul quale, a volte, ho disteso il mio pensiero anch'io. Il mistero degli dei, che per me costituiva un tormento, non era motivo di inquietudine per lei; e non provava neppure la mia attrazione appassionata per la carne. Era casta per disdegno delle cose facili, generosa per elezione più che per natura, saggiamente diffidente, ma pronta ad accettare tutto da un amico, persino gli errori inevitabili. L'amicizia era un fatto elettivo per lei, e vi si impegnava tutta intera, vi si abbandonava totalmente, come a me è accaduto solo con l'amore. Nessuno mi ha conosciuto quanto lei: ho lasciato che vedesse cose che ho accuratamente dissimulate a chiunque altro: per esempio, qualche viltà segreta. Mi piace credere che anch'essa, per parte sua, non mi abbia taciuto quasi nulla. L'intimità dei corpi, che non è mai esistita tra noi, è stata compensata da questo contatto di due spiriti intimamente fusi l'uno con l'altro."

- Memorie di Adriano. (M. Yourcenar)

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¡Feliz cumpleaños, Marguerite Yourcenar!

Imagen del libro Recordatorios (Souvenirs Pieux).

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Albert Camus, The Wrong Side and the Right Side, 1937 (L’Envers et l’Endroit): Preface; from Personal Writings (translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy and Justin O’Brien)

Text ID: To enjoy only oneself is impossible, I know, although I have great gifts in this direction. If solitude exists, and I don’t know if it does, one should certainly have the right to dream of it occasionally as paradise.

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Ian Stevenson

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But I protect myself, I surround myself with books, their silence does not demand anything, they exist, they are alive, they are for anyone to open, unlike us human beings.

Bo Carpelan, tr. by David McDuff, from "Urwind," published c. 1993

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Assemblée nationale, Paris, photo by herrbap

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“When we lose certain people, or when we are dispossessed from a place, or a community, we may simply feel that we are undergoing something temporary, that mourning will be over and some restoration of prior order will be achieved. But maybe when we undergo what we do, something about who we are is revealed, something that delineates the ties we have to others, that shows us that these ties constitute what we are, ties or bonds that compose us. It is not as if an “I” exists independently over here and then simply loses a “you” over there, especially if the attachment to “you” is part of what composes who “I” am. If I lose you, under these conditions, then I not only mourn the loss, but I become inscrutable to myself. Who “am” I, without you?”

— Judith Butler, Precarious Life