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“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.”
— James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
Tagged: Silence, Exile, Pretension, emigration, obstinacy, non serviam
“Do not weep
but once, and a long

time then
Thereafter eat till

your stomach spills over
No more! you’ll cry

too full for your eyes
to leak

*

The words will wait”
— Kevin Young, Dear Darkness: Poems
Tagged: Kevin Young, Mourning, Death, Grieving, Loss, Language
“They say, That is not his life, he does not live on that. They don't see me, they don't see what my life is, they don't see what I live on, and they say, That is not his life, he does not live on that. I have lived on it until I'm old. Old enough.”
— Samuel Beckett, The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
Tagged: Cascando, Samuel Beckett, obstinacy, obliviousness
“It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.”
— Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
Tagged: clay shirky, expression, abundance, cognitive surplus
“All day, men — no women — took the microphone and spoke. There was always a buzz in the audience, whispers, an audible hum of excitement. Then it was time for John Cage. He walked onto the stage and began to speak, without the microphone. He stood at the center of the small stage and addressed the crowd. He talked, without amplification, and soon people in the audience shouted, ‘We can’t hear you, use the mic. We can’t hear you.’ John Cage said, ‘You can, if you listen.’ Everyone settled down, there was no more buzz, hum or rustling, there was silence, and John Cage spoke again, without the microphone, and everyone listened and heard perfectly.”
— Lynne Tillman, What Would Lynne Tillman Do?
Tagged: john cage, Silence, schizoculture, lynne tillman, Listening