Witold Gombrowicz - Amazon Description
Just before the outbreak of World War II, young Witold Gombrowicz left his home in Poland and set sail for South America. In 1953, still living as an expatriate in Argentina, he began his Diary with one of literature’s most memorable openings:
“Monday
Me.
Tuesday
Me.
Wednesday
Me.
Thursday
Me.”
Gombrowicz’s Diary grew to become a vast collection of essays, short notes, polemics, and confessions on myriad subjects ranging from political events to literature to the certainty of death. Not a traditional journal, Diary is instead the commentary of a brilliant and restless mind. Widely regarded as a masterpiece, this brilliant work compelled Gombrowicz’s attention for a decade and a half until he penned his final entry in France, shortly before his death in 1969.
Long out of print in English, Diary is now presented in a convenient single volume featuring a new preface by Rita Gombrowicz, the author’s widow and literary executor. This edition also includes ten previously unpublished pages from the 1969 portion of the diary.
There’s nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.
Joseph Brodsky, from “Roman Elegies” (via awritersruminations)
(via proustitute)
Source: awritersruminations
The fetch of a wave is the distance it travels, you said,
from where it is born at sea to where it founders to shore.
I must go back to where it all began.
Source: proustitute
Photograph of the hands of Ezra Pound holding an open book with a table in the background.
Source: yama-bato
Never
Always remember she never has your back. But she thinks you should always have the “families” back.
You see asshole your problem is that you are driving home and in the back of your mind you are thinking that everything is going to be great at home and your family is going to want to see you and will be nice and friendly and la dee da. You get home and state some facts and suddenly you are the bad guy. REMEMBER YOU ARE ALONE, YOU WERE BORN ALONE AND YOU WILL DIE ALONE. ACT ACCORDINGLY.
Civic plaza view
John S Lens, Kodot XGrizzled Film, No Flash, Taken with HipstamaticSo there’s an iron rule that just as you want to start getting worldly wisdom by asking why, why, why, in communicating with other people about everything, you want to include why, why, why. Even if it’s obvious, it’s wise to stick in the why.
A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business
Charles Munger, USC Business School, 1994
Charles Munger, USC Business School, 1994
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. —Bene Gesserit “Litany Against Fear,” from Frank Herbert’s Dune
One wise Republican, unfortunately deceased.
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