Thursday 17 April 2008

Can anybody save Shambo?


A corpse claps hands like a pebble in a window pane - Benjamin Peret

STOP RACKING YOUR BRAINS
nobody reads poetry nowadays
it doesn't matter if it's good or bad
- Nicanor Parra

Assuming you can get over the initial feeling of queasiness, The Enema Bandit is a genuinely hilarious movie - Jonathan Ross

By the grace of God, we,
King of all chickens The Unclean have fried,
and Grand Duke of all eggs said chickens have laid,
- Vladimir Mayakovsky

The surrealists promised a new world, but they merely delivered 'mysteries of Paris'. They promised a new faith, but did that really mean anything? Oh literature, what petty crimes are committed in your name! - Henri Lefebvre

Here's the truth simply stated. . . bookstores are suffering from a serious crisis of falling sales. - Louis-Ferdinand Celine

People are ashamed, not of the injustices they do, but of those they receive. - Giacomo Leopardi

1 comment:

Vera X. said...

I thought given the Mayakovsky quote and the quip about surrealism that you might be interested in the website for a new novel Reconstructing Mayakovsky. The site, http://www.reconstructingmayakovsky.com
is fun, inventive and interactive. Like the novel, it combines elements of science fiction, poetry, the detective story and historical fiction to tell the story of Mayakovsky in a radically different way.
If you enjoy it, I hope you’ll share it with your friends or on your blog. Thanks.