hüzün — a Turkish word that expresses a communal sense of melancholy
“The hüzün of Istanbul is not just the mood evoked by its music and its poetry, it is a way of looking at life that implicates us all, not only a spiritual state but a state of mind that is ultimately as life-affirming as it is negating.”
found in Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk.
my favourite thing about the summer is darkening my room and rotting in an artificial environment of eternal twilight
reincarnate me as a cabalistic soothsayer on the Silk Road somewhere between Samarqand and Xi’an with a shady effaced past in Trebizond
It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don’t spin it out too long long breath he breath long life, soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high in the effulgence symbolistic, high, of the ethereal bosom, high, of the high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the all, the endlessnessnessness… — JAMES JOYCE, Ulysses.
(teotihuacan gönderdi)
Turbulent (SOLILOQUY), Sussan Deyhim; music and sound design for video installations by Shirin Neshat.
(Kaynak: growing-orbits, mirbeau gönderdi)
Albrecht Dürer’s engraving Melencolia I was distributed widely, and travelled as far away as India, where the Mughal miniaturist Farrukh Beg referenced the work in his 1615 miniature The Old Sufi.
(Kaynak: yama-bato)
I went to the florist today to order some white orchids and the florist told me “that’s a coincidence … someone who wanted to remain anonymous bought you a bouquet of white orchids just yesterday, I was just about to deliver them to your house …”
life sometimes
is mysterious and beautiful
mundane motherfuckers cramping my style
take your carnal urges and pre-prom preoccupations and shove them up your small intestine
give me a ring when you become more interesting
To make an image of an object is to extract from it all its dimensions, one by one: weight, relief, perfume, depth, time, continuity, and, certainly, sense (meaning). It is at the price of this disembodiment (désincarnation) that the image takes on this power to fascinate, that it becomes the medium of pure objectness (objectalité) and of a most subtle seduction. — JEAN BAUDRILLARD
(Kaynak: anxiaimago)
Salle de bain of Marie Antoinette, Versailles. designed by Richard Mique, panelling by the frères Rousseau.
(Kaynak: a-l-ancien-regime, prenzlauer gönderdi)
