Corbin Allardice
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...
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Corbin Allardice
Jan 12, 20211 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...
Corbin Allardice
Jan 12, 20211 min
Nadirisms 92-95: Two Views of a Butter Knife & The Problem of Work
92nd Nadirism: When, for instance, you grow tired and want a bit of rest, you stop working for the day and rest. But since I never work,...
Corbin Allardice
Jan 12, 20212 min
Nadirisms 88-91: Parable of the Wicker Gate
88th Nadirism: The wicker gate to a fence is bound with a string of bark. It wants to fall, it’s dying, but the string of bark does not...
Corbin Allardice
Jan 11, 20212 min
Nadirisms 82-86: Internationalism, The New Class Struggle & The Inadequacy of One Mind
82nd Nadirism: In the “internationalization” of the world, Jews want “of their own accord to cease” to exist as Jews. In the...
Corbin Allardice
Jan 11, 20212 min
Nadirisms 76-81: God, Light, & Bread
76th Nadirism: It is perhaps a natural law that when an individual stands in opposition to the thousands, the individual will be rejected...
Corbin Allardice
Dec 8, 20202 min
Nadirisms 69-75: Nation and State, Desire and Other Wants, & Moshiach Problems
69th Nadirism: Every state has as much freedom as it can deprive its citizens of. Every nation has as much freedom as it can prise back...
Corbin Allardice
Dec 5, 20202 min
Nadirisms 65-68: Civilization, Barbaric Civilization
65th Nadirism: (CW: Nadir uses a racial slur at the end of this piece. While this piece attempts to reject the notion of Western...
Corbin Allardice
Dec 4, 20202 min
Nadirisms 61-64: Human, Citizen, & Humanity; & The Age of a Bird
61st Nadirism: In the past, idealists struggled for the right of all people to be citizens, now they struggle for the right of all...
Corbin Allardice
Dec 3, 20201 min
Nadirisms 59 & 60: Yiddish and the Classical Languages, & On Loving Thy Neighbor
59th Nadirism: Our language is not dying like Latin or Greek, ours is much, much more tragic. But there is an upside: if our death is to...
Corbin Allardice
Dec 3, 20202 min
Nadirisms 55-58: On Jewish Obstinance, Head-Banging, Holy Tongues, & English Wit
55th Nadirism: Just look at how many Jews keep up with “art” and “criticism,” to see what stubborn people we are! Az me zet vi fil...
Corbin Allardice
Dec 2, 20202 min
Nadirism 54: They Come to Us when We are Dead
54th Nadirism: They come to us when we are dying. They come to us when we depart. They come to us when we are celebrated, they come on...
Corbin Allardice
Dec 2, 20202 min
Nadirisms 50-53: On Sholem-Aleichem, Avrom Reyzn, Liesin, & Lamed Shapiro.
50th Nadirism: Sholem-Aleichem--a being of light and lyric. With a smile that breaks your heart; a laughing eye which is, at the same...
Corbin Allardice
Nov 30, 20202 min
Nadirisms 47-49: Books or the Body, The Conversion of Heine, & Mutual Immortality
47th Nadirism: BOOKS. Humans, stripped of flesh and bone. Essence of humanity, the song of all songs--the song of ended lives and of dead...
Corbin Allardice
Nov 29, 20202 min
Nadirisms 43-46: Natural Nature & Public Secrets
43rd Nadirism: A forest flourished. A delightfully fragrant forest in which birds fluttered and water-fiddles played. A great, gorgeous,...
Corbin Allardice
Nov 26, 20202 min
Nadirisms 39-42: On the Problems of Happiness, (Yiddish) Poetry, and Evil
39th Nadirism: The writer Wedekind once wrote to his mother: “Mother dear,” he wrote, “you’d have me write false books and exchange them...
Corbin Allardice
Nov 25, 20202 min
Nadirisms 36-38: The Nest that is Myself
36th Nadirism: I am a nest for...thinkings, so be it. My poor thoughts come flying in, like birds soaked by the rain and battered by the...
Corbin Allardice
Nov 24, 20202 min
Nadirisms 32-35: Naked Thought & The Lazy Real
32nd Nadirism: There are those who think in thoughts and those who think in words.Those who think in thoughts set out on a fruitless...
Corbin Allardice
Nov 23, 20201 min
Nadirism 31: Are We Dying?
31st Nadirism: Are we dying out? Or are we not dying? If we are indeed dying (literarily and dramaturgically speaking), then screw it,...
Corbin Allardice
Nov 22, 20203 min
Nadirisms 22-30: Pseudo-Hebrew and the Critic's Other Cons.
22nd Nadirism: Is criticism truly my profession? (For others liking and disliking is an occupation, for me it is merely my nature!) Iz...
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