More specifically concerning: elias canetti
Adversaria (6)
30 September 2023, around 4.17.
‘The parallel reader. He has ten books open at once and reads one sentence in each, then the next sentence in the book beside it. What a scholar!’ —Elias Canetti (Notes from Hampstead, trans. John Hargraves, p. 68) ‘That poignant sensation which makes you take hold of a sentence as though it were a weapon’ […]
torpor
11 June 2025, around 8.33.
The evening books differ from the morning books in that they are rarely part of a ‘project’ of any kind, except that of sufficiently distracting me from the state of the world so that I can go to sleep. A few half-awake reflections: Interior Chinatown. Started as an audiobook on the bus to the beach, […]