💖GN https://youtu.be/ca48oMV59LU

I’m learning to press the “try again” button if my “relays” time out on Coracle post!

Trying this again! 📸

Also celebrated “August is Women in Translation Month” during my visit to City of Asylum Bookstore & added some books to my collection including Ann Goldstein’s translation of Elena Ferrante’s Frantumaglia. Also love this Ray Bradbury Quote 🐝 #translation #bookstr

DAMN — looks like I will be rewatching this a 4th or 5th time because I’m still waiting for season 2… https://m.imdb.com/video/vi2724117529/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Finally purchased this book today—about 50 pages into this heartbreaking true story. #bookstr

“But when Liliana asked him to trust her and stand down, he relented with this wisdom: “I have always believed in freedom because only in freedom can we know what we are made of. Freedom is not the problem. Men are the problem — violent, arrogant, murderous men.” It wasn’t Liliana’s responsibility to keep herself safe. It was Ángel González Ramos’s responsibility not to be violent. As Rivera Garza puts it with a gut punch: “The only difference between my sister and me is that I never came across a murderer.” That, Rivera Garza says, is also “the only difference between you and her.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/books/review/lilianas-invincible-summer-cristina-rivera-garza.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Elena— character— in the middle of *Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay”

Pietro had invented a well-mannered child, jargon for sexual things, I had acquired it and used it in place of the vulgar dialect vocabulary I had known since early childhood. But now, if one truly wanted to feel part of the changing world, was it necessary to bring back the obscene words, to say: I want to screw, fuck me this way and that way?

Unimaginable with my husband. But the few men I saw, al highly educated, willingly pretended to be lower-class, were amused by women who acted like sluts, and seemed to enjoy treating a woman like a whore. At first these men were very formal, they controlled themselves.

But they couldn't wait to start a skirmish that moved from the unsaid to the said, to the more explicitly said, in a game of freedom where female shyness was considered a sign of hypocritical foolishness.”

#ElenaFerrante

“Mikhail Bakhtin, one of my favorite literary theorists, wrote that the novel is the world’s most capacious literary form—the one that can accommodate the most kinds of language, including essayistic, confessional, lyrical, even journalistic discourse. Because I share his view of the novel as a composite and evolving form that absorbs everything around it, I don’t feel that it’s such a drastic turn for a nonfiction writer to switch to the novel.” Elif Batuman on Writing Fiction vs. Nonfiction https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/fiction-this-week-elif-batuman-2017-01-23

“The Russian dissident literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin taught us to cherish “carnival” culture as a liberating force in social life. It’s in the authority-mocking brio embodied by the comedian Volodymyr Zelensky, or, for that matter, by the self-deprecating clowning of Alexei Navalny, unashamed to play video games and to make lip-synched TikTok videos. Yet the social-subversive impulse can serve different masters. As Emanuel Marx points out in his book “State Violence in Nazi Germany” (2019), Kristallnacht, in November of 1938, occurred during a carnival season that Catholics traditionally celebrated: “For the mass of participants and bystanders, the Kristallnacht was a noisy and rowdy carnival that suspended for a few hours the ordinary standards of behavior.” Breaking the windows of Jewish merchants could be as much a gleeful, subversive, Rabelaisian activity as mocking the overlords. Indeed, the Nazis in power gently chided, and even tried, a handful of the rioters for overdoing it.” Power Up https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/23/how-to-build-a-twenty-first-century-tyrant-the-revenge-of-power-spin-dictators

good advice for many scenarios!

I have little brothers… nice try 😉

People have tagged other people before on my responses— I might discover the source of your humor one day! ☺️

thank god

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a talented artist! 👏🏻

Nostr is mostly uncharted for me. I only now saw your reply— I’m learning to “let go” & experience what I can in a safe way. I’m enjoying the experience on Coracle though.

And so it’s been said… before I was born.

“All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56966/speech-all-the-worlds-a-stage