Corbin Allardice
Moyshe Varshe - Book Finished!!
Wow, with that last entry, the entirety of Metempsychoses: The Diary and Writings of Moyshe Varshe (vegn fun a neshome: togbukh, ferzn,...
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Corbin Allardice
- Oct 22, 2020
- 1 min
Commonplace Book 7: Et Cetera (Final Entry)
Ovid Forgive, and bear it all happy. (source unknown) Fartsey, un trog alts iber dermutik. Shakespeare Forbear to judge, for we are...
Corbin Allardice
- Oct 21, 2020
- 8 min
Commonplace Book 6: Stanisław Brzozowski
(Note: Today's entry consists of Varshe's translation of the Polish philosopher Stanisław Brzozowski. Unfortunately, the latter is all...
Corbin Allardice
- Oct 20, 2020
- 9 min
Commonplace Book 5: Otto Weininger
(Note: The present entry consists of Varshe's translations and adaptations from Sex and Character (Geschlecht und Charakter) by the...
Corbin Allardice
- Oct 19, 2020
- 2 min
Commonplace Book 4: Nietzsche
And if that is my alpha and omega, that all heaviness becomes light, all body dancer, all spirit bird – and truly, that is my alpha and...
Corbin Allardice
- Oct 18, 2020
- 3 min
Commonplace Book 3: Walt Whitman
[Note: Although perhaps contingent--the result of unfinished or sloppy work, of bad bookkeeping or so on--it seems apparent from the...
Corbin Allardice
- Oct 15, 2020
- 4 min
Commonplace Book 2: Marcus Aurelius
Translation 2: Marcus Aurelius (Note: This entry consists of Varshe's translations from Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. In this instance, I...
Corbin Allardice
- Oct 14, 2020
- 7 min
Commonplace Book 1: Gospels (Evangelium)
Gospels (Evangelium) (Note: The rvemainder of the books consists of fragments of Varshe's translation. It is remarkable the degree to...
Corbin Allardice
- Oct 13, 2020
- 1 min
Poem 18 - Parable of the Blind Man (Final Poem)
Poem 18 - Parable of the Blind Man (Untitled) And someone with blind eyes comes before me And stands silent in the doorway. His eyes...
Corbin Allardice
- Oct 12, 2020
- 1 min
Poem 17 - Maybe (Untitled)
And maybe?...maybe?... The devil played me like Job, Smelled how the stink of prey from me arose; And then he reached out and touched my...
Corbin Allardice
- Oct 11, 2020
- 2 min
Poem 16 - A Lullaby (Untitled)
Who came to me in the silence of night, who came to despoil the radiant light Of my still childish vision? Who crooked my spine with a...
Corbin Allardice
- Oct 10, 2020
- 1 min
Poem 15 - Quiet Watched the Moon (Untitled)
I ran out to the street. The street was still asleep In a black and burdened dream. Quiet watched the moon With a dead face, dead and...
Corbin Allardice
- Oct 9, 2020
- 1 min
Poem 14 - Dumah (Untitled)
In a long, insomniac night when I thought, in sorrow spirling, That it would never be--then, quietly, he came to me-- He brought me...
Corbin Allardice
- Oct 8, 2020
- 2 min
Poems 11,12, & 13: Mother, Adieu!, & Speak, Be Silent
Poem 11-- Mother (Untitled) Mother, mother, poor old mother, Do you know that your son, Your only son, Is long since dead? And when you...
Corbin Allardice
- Oct 5, 2020
- 1 min
Poem 10 - Mute Resonance
Poem 10 - Mute Resonance (Untitled)* In its fear of death my soul forgets That wordless resonance! Turning to dust without a word The...
Corbin Allardice
- Oct 4, 2020
- 1 min
Poem 9: Wandering Eye (Untitled)
Trees and houses floating, dancing, It all wrapped in haze, And in the gray dancing, streets revolve quiet, revolve crazed. A drowsy,...
Corbin Allardice
- Oct 3, 2020
- 1 min
Poems 7 & 8: Black Sin & The Garden
Poem 7 - Black Sin (Untitled) Permit me yet to live my entire life kneeling at your feet Perhaps then you will forgive me my black sin....
Corbin Allardice
- Oct 1, 2020
- 3 min
Poem 6: Investiture
Investiture (Untitled) God invested in me:* A pure, white soul, With a child’s laugh And with a child’s cringe, ** And two white doves...
Corbin Allardice
- Sep 30, 2020
- 1 min
Poem 5 - Trauerorgel (untitled)
A world is sinking, and she trembles, Trembles in mute pain, And from generations then to generations on, Quiet mourning carries on. The...
Corbin Allardice
- Sep 29, 2020
- 1 min
Poems 3 &4: An Eye & Tu Derbaremen
Poem 3 - An Eye (Untitled) And an eye, mutely staring, Keeps, always, always, its gaze set, And lower and lower sinks My accursed, tired...
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