Schriftatlas II, 1a
I have crossed an ocean, a hemisphere, and the continents which cleave them, in pursuit–of what?–perhaps scarcely more than some new means by which to see the infinitely visible things […]
I have crossed an ocean, a hemisphere, and the continents which cleave them, in pursuit–of what?–perhaps scarcely more than some new means by which to see the infinitely visible things […]
… vnnd fuer auß von der Santt vieZendo Jm 1553 Jar vnd Am 24 tag Juni an Sannt Johanneßtag so begab sich Jn disser Zeit daß wier 14 Lanng auff […]
What word is stone enough to weight this ruined bilge? It is mid-morning in the second or third week of September, in the year of 1944, close behind the Vistula […]
Where does construction end and ruin begin? What distinguishes destruction from decay? The swift jetsam of a dropped or blasted bomb cannot share the attributes of that slow detritus which […]
Yet, what of this activity of collecting per se? What of collection? Is it not, tacitly, an obsessive act of repetition, each new item acquired simply to re-open the same […]
[Unintelligible: first line completely obscured by water stain] …that each object may just as well suggest the seed, or nucleus, of a collection to which it might eventually or may […]
[The recto of folio 3 features two diagrams, one apparently superimposed upon the other at a later date. The first, rendered in black ink is redolent of Michelangelo’s human figure […]
[NOTE: Folios 3a-5b of the third notebook contain, if not the strangest, then certainly the longest, by nearly double, of all Valaco’s entries. Thematically, the entry is anomalous in equal […]
/ 1554 †Den 20 tag september ist mein brueder thoman Schmidl seilliger mit tott verschien nen Zwieschen 2 vnd 3 veren nach mietag gott sey Jm gennedig vnd parmhertzig vnd […]
I’ve no longer to make a language. I’ve no longer any language to make. All the basest elements have decamped into the humid din, retreated into a dense, recondite, impoverished […]
You must be logged in to post a comment.