Corbin Allardice
Nadirism 184: It Could Be (End of Nadirisms)
184th Nadirism: It Could Be It could be a face Surely nothing more Than man and tear And sun on the face And the bit of dream And the...
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Corbin Allardice
- Jan 20, 2021
- 3 min
Nadirisms 178-183: By My Teeth
178th Nadirism: I’m hanging onto the stony cliff of my words by my teeth, just so I won’t fall off. I’m hanging on by my teeth to those...
Corbin Allardice
- Jan 20, 2021
- 3 min
Nadirisms 174-177: You Will Taste my Life
174th Nadirism: Born to a family of God-searchers, I began searching for a God as a child, and, in his place, I found...life! And it...
Corbin Allardice
- Jan 19, 2021
- 1 min
Nadirism 173: Something or Other
173rd Nadirism (From the Depths/mima’amakim) I threw away something or other With my own hands, these two. To this day I hear it falling,...
Corbin Allardice
- Jan 18, 2021
- 3 min
Nadirisms 155-160: Shtetl Pastoral
155th Nadirism: Like a loyal dog, my shtetl has followed me even here. Once again: Like my white dog, who is always smeared with dirt and...
Corbin Allardice
- Jan 18, 2021
- 5 min
Nadirisms 161-172: Shtetl Pastoral & Shtetl Erotics
161st Nadirism: Boyishness ripened in me, like an apple ready to fall from a tree near a fence--onto the open road, to be trampled by the...
Corbin Allardice
- Jan 17, 2021
- 4 min
154th Nadirism: Narayev, Crown City of my Life
154th Nadirism: Narayev!-- -- --* Gray dove of mine, who hangs in blue air, Your perfume will again blossom there in the space between my...
Corbin Allardice
- Jan 16, 2021
- 2 min
Nadirisms 147-153: THE NEW TRINITY
147th Nadirism: Art, sex, religion--the great three-in-one, the trinity, which pulls the thread of our life. Sexuality drags life by the...
Corbin Allardice
- Jan 16, 2021
- 1 min
Nadirisms 143-146: God, World & Shabes
143rd Nadirism: God can deny the world, but the world cannot deny the God which it created, and which it formed (be it as reward or as...
Corbin Allardice
- Jan 16, 2021
- 1 min
Nadirisms 139-142: My Mother's Handkerchief
139th Nadirism: I wouldn’t want for my biographies to spend more time on my cravats and pipes than on...my mother’s silk tikhl...
Corbin Allardice
- Jan 15, 2021
- 1 min
Nadirisms 136-138: World as Nothing, World as Goldmine, World as Book
136th Nadirism: If you don’t want to be criticized: think nothing, do nothing, and see nothing. Az du vilst men zol dikh nisht kritikirn,...
Corbin Allardice
- Jan 14, 2021
- 1 min
Nadirisms 128-129: Aphorism of the Harbor & Cruelty of the Stars
128th Nadirism: Sickly, weak and old ideas, leave my heart and let me be free. Like rescue ships in a storming harbor. So by dint of...
Corbin Allardice
- Jan 14, 2021
- 2 min
Nadirisms 121-127: Knowledge and Context
121st Nadirism: For some people (losers) having no time means they have no time to be happy. Others (winners) exploit their...
Corbin Allardice
- Jan 14, 2021
- 1 min
Nadirisms 118-120: Afterlife/נאָכלעבן/fortleben
118th Nadirism: Slowly--like a child cutting into the honey cake their grandmother gave them for their birthday--so slowly did I cut into...
Corbin Allardice
- Jan 13, 2021
- 1 min
Nadirisms 113-117: Moderation, in Moderation
113th Nadirism: The wise drinker knows that thirst can be as blessed as the most blessed drink. Der kluger trinker veys, az der dorsht...
Corbin Allardice
- Jan 13, 2021
- 2 min
Nadirisms 108-112: Chauvinists, A Lovers' Discourse, and Muddy Art
108th Nadirism: ...Even worse than the chauvinists are the shove-bshove-ists [relativists.]* ...erger fun di shovinistn enen di...
Corbin Allardice
- Jan 13, 2021
- 1 min
Nadirisms 104-107: Modernist Musar
104th Nadirism: Should we live as God commanded, although we don’t know exactly what God commanded, or should we live according to our...
Corbin Allardice
- Jan 13, 2021
- 1 min
Nadirisms 101-103: On Complaint
101st Nadirism: My father-in-law looks at me like at a clock without hands. He’s heard that I “work,” but as for what I do and for what...
Corbin Allardice
- Jan 12, 2021
- 3 min
Nadirisms: 98-100: Three Views on Jewish Precarity
98th Nadirism: I was on my vacash (vacation) and was sitting under an acash (acacia) when a man of my nash (nation) handed me a page from...
Corbin Allardice
- Jan 12, 2021
- 1 min
Nadirisms 96-7: Cemetery Lyric & Nomberg's Politesse
96th Nadirism: Cemetery...a field we sowed with unquiet souls where bright, silent stones arose. Besoylem...a feld vu me hot farzeyt...
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