"Can we not admit certain skilled men, gifted with intelligence, talent or even genius and so indespensable to society, rather than stagnate should be free to disobey laws in certain cases?"

 - Michel (Bresson's Pickpocket)

Picture: Illustration from "Survival in the City" (1974)

The Supreme Importance of Reading - John Cotton Dana

William Bronk Poetry Reading (1978)

"It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened." 

- Georges Simenon (talking about a recurring dream in an interview in 1985)

Picture: "Tuonela" by Paul Landacre (1934)

The Love Life of the Spumifers - Georges Hugnet

Phil Yost - Bent City I & II

"All lovers live by longing, and endure:
Summon a vision and declare it pure."


- Theodore Roethke (Four for Sir John Davies)


Picture: Isamu Noguchi with Undine (Nadja) 1925.

Desire.

Masami Kawahara & The Exotic Sounds - Taboo.

Green Tea by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

"If rape or arson, poison or the knife 

Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff 

Of this drab canvas we accept as life - 

It is because we are not bold enough!"

- Charles Baudelaire (Au Lecteur, 1857)

Picture: "L'Assassinat" by Felix Vallotton (1893)