Chinese author Can Xue was favourite to win 2024 Nobel prize in literature. But the winner was Han Kang
Chinese author Can Xue is favourite to win 2024 Nobel prize in literature
Han Kang
https://x.com/yakabikaj/status/1664662973393059841?s=46&t=JS3op2cvLeWPj9dDLynbJg
Flug in den Tod
Human trafficking / Straftat des Menschenhandels
eifersüchtig
Smirk trolly auf D
A neat shot of mezcal, which I sip as opposed to shoot
A change of typography?
I find myself on a #beats binge, which astounds me. It shouldn’r, since there was a time when I was tempted by the ethos of the #Beats. It turns out that my peak of adolescent revolt was pre-#Hippie but was “Not So Beat Either”.
https://alteritas.net/GXL/?page_id=3119
Badge of honor, badge of shame
(Star of wonder, star of light,
Star of wonderous beauty bright)
Elle a une notion très persane de la propreté dans tous les sens du mot, quels soient hygienetiques, behavioriste, self-contained
Cette notion remonte au dualisme pratiqué par les prêtres-adeptes de Zoroastre. Des traits qui sont plutot irannies que persanes
https://alteritas.net/pastis/paleo/
https://alteritas.net/pastis/inventory/why-we-call-it-what-it-is/
La región pagaba plumas de quetzal —uno de los bienes suntuarios más apreciados en la Mesoamérica precolombina—
como tributo a la Triple Alianzai Cuetzalan del Progreso (del nahuatl: quetzallan ‘lugar de Quetzales)
Chiste triste
In that forest too sad for birds,
the women have nothing but color.
They squat by the road in indigo skirts,
wrapped in rainbow shawls.
The court-yards of tourist hotels
hold flocks of wing-clipped macaws.
In their cages, too sad for words,
the quetzals are nothing but color.
Carmen McRae: If the moon turns green
The History of Parkinson’s
Leftists are losers I say this as a bona fide left Social Democrat, a Menchevik of sorts.
Natch, as a PwP I’m intrinsically involved with understanding what it is.
Not at all a PoP, a prisoner of Parkinsonism
I’ve rediscovered what it means to listen actively to music. I had always thought that KJazz 88.1 KKJZ was a local resource, for background radio for driving around OC. But it can be streamed at jazzandblues.org. Duh!.
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Donald Vega The Gathering
Coltrane Wise One
Danny Grisett A New Brginning
Mulgrew Miller Soul Leo
Ahmad Jamal No Greater Love
Wayne Shorter Fee FiFo Fum
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers . Nght in Tuniisia
Eddie Jefferson come along w Me SCAT and the Scat Book
Jazz quote:
One thing that works for me with jazz is the aura of literacy that hangs about it, the hidden lyrics in the case of instrumentals. Part of the mysterious appeal of it is due to the infuence of so much matrrial from the Great American songbook.
I for one hold to that creed, the one which holds that poetry has no place in politics and vice versa. But is there not a contradiction jbetween exempting poetry from political judgement while at the same time you insist that xxx
He’s a known entity, sometimes worse than being a mere non-entity
Is one of those thoughts we too easily shrug off.
Every time it rains there fall pennies from heaven
Hätte hätte Mopeds Kette ST –> coulda shoulda woulda
Sahib shahab Jamila
Coltrane Summertime
Esperanza Spaulding The Peacocks
Keith Jarret When I Fall in Love
Freddie Hubbard Arietis
Herbie Mann
Ascension is a kind of Finnegan’s Wake or better vice versa
Coltrane versis Stephen hawkins