I ask the voice who it is and it replies that it is Schattenfroh, then do I ask Schattenfroh and Schattenfroh replies: But come not near any msn upon whom is the tau! What do you look like? I ask Schattenfroh and Schattenfroh replies, You are the man clothed with linen

My dungeon consists of two rooms, a day dungeon and a large, cluttered room for the night #Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

My book has just been returned to me, I can keep it now. It has been copied out in its entirety. What greater humiliation could there be? Im not actually writing in this book, it's brain-script, the brain writes itself into the book

Alef with all and all with alef / Bet with all and all with bet /Gimel with all and all with gimel/ they all return again and again / and they emanate through two hundred and thirty-one gates. #Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

The carpet is not beautiful, but it is beautiful in that I do not understand it. Below the tablets or gates with the ten lines is a flower-wreathed grave framed by glyphs and scrolls, at first glance, more than a dozen bodies seem to lie in this grave #Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

Ugliness can make one worthy of desire, it can stimulate the most me. violent of imaginings, which is why I no longer want to look at the grimace and the woman, between the two of which my gaze shifts back and forth, but to hold onto their beauty in my memory. #Lentz25

The woman's child should be called Mahershalalhashbaz & I shan't write that upon a great slate with a human pencil,there are no witnesses,I say it here and now & thus shall the woman read it in the book that is called Schattenfroh. She is to remain a blank slate for me. #Lentz25

Curiosity, however, outweighs jealousy which makes jealousy lash out with all the more violence in those cases when its fury does not receive prompt satisfaction. #Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

the 999 is embroidered on both pullow and bed cover, the 999 that is both truth and justice, instead of washing instructions the 999 is upside down. roses with many thorns pierce the fabric of the laundry, a sea breaks and spatters over all of the laundry #Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

All reading women are named Maria and are of indeterminate age. #Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

Are they an overt memento mori, do they invite one to a seated dance of death, or do they simply anticipate the seated position by challenging the person taking a seat to sit up straight? #Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

But beauty is an effect of pain and thus, does he say, are those workers on the wall who suffer this pain prisoners of beauty. Their body becomes brittle by absorbing the breaches in the wall, thus making it beautiful once more. Pity would be entirely misplaced here, #Lentz25

Erich Amjage prefers to enumerate all common, possible, and imaginable natural, as well as artificial types of stone that can be found on site, ashlar, basalt, bookstone, fired or unfired "Ziegeln," he says in German, a word that could mean either "bricks? or "very thick books,

first be ascertained whether the Fratzenstuhl--the grimace chair- isn't a piece of furniture that sh as ll perhaps be very valuable in 330 years and not merely as a function of its material worth which is inextricably tied up with aspects of the history of art & culture #Lentz25

In hindsight, all the problems started when we moved away from hand-written library catalog cards.

Wild honey has a scent - of freedom Dust - a scent of sunshine And a girl's mouth - of violets. But gold - nothing. Water - like mignonette. And like apple - love. But we have learned that blood smells only of blood. -Anna Akhamatova, trans. Ilya Kaminsky/Katie Farris #everynightapoem #shanatova

The world is a blurred version of itself— marred, lovely, and flawed. It is enough. -Jane Hirshfield, from ‘Autumn Quince’

Life means passage #Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

For Grandmother, stairs, parquetry, and porcelain were the natural expression of her bourgeois class consciousness #Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

My recognition is misrecognition, but the misrecognized is that which remains: a grimace. I feel sorry for my mother and grandparents, of whom nothing remains and nothing shall remain but a half-shelf full of photographs. #Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

The passage through the gateway is the passage through a camera obscura. Is the memory of a photograph memory or is it a contouring new development of photog raphy, setting in garish colors and, simultaneously, fading once more?#Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

It's the repetition that does it. The ever-repeating book. Take up and read to me. Reading is observing images Identity is the daily repetition of a book. Take and eat of the Book of Life. #Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

'Take up and read; Take up and read.' #Lentz25 #MichaelLentz #DeepVellum translated by #MaxLawton #SchattenfrohSeptember #Schattenfroh

the book out of which Mother has been reading for her whole life without finding any answers to her questions. What kind of questions are these? She asks herself, for example, why she should give birth to a son who shall grow further and further apart from her

The angel is the inner voice that speaks in my mother. She is so immersed in the word that is within her that it becomes true: "Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Michael, which being interpreted is,He Who Is Like God.

Mother, who must have recognized her son in the same moment she saw the crucified Christ whose death she blames herself for in perpetuity, a death that, at the same time, makes her very proud. #Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

Before the Agnus Dei stands a golden chalice, into which blood bleeds out from the page. #Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

And then he comes to the wonderful conclusion: "In fact, all that we shall experience is already there and that which we have experienced is st ill there; our surface of three dimensions, for there is nothing now hindering us from speaking of such a surface in four dimensions ...

He messed with my book, the one I let you write, the book in which you always have me before your eyes and hear my voice, even when Tm silent. #Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

And I tear the black page out of the book and a white page appears as the black page, And I tear the black page out of the book and a white page appears as the black page. And I tear the black page out of the book and a white page appears as the black page, #Lentz25

"Whoever shall blot out my inscribed name through a work of malice, whoever shall destroy my document or shall change its place, I, Nebo, shall gaze furiously upon him, shall wipe out his name and his seed from the lands!" To wipe out means to erase from script. #Lentz25

"And thou, shrewd mortal, prudently make known, Lest ever thou should'st my commands neglect." am waiting for the commands, Father Lucifer, known as Schattenfroh. #Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

“They will never understand this land because they do not love it.”

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Isabelle Eberhardt - Ghost in the Colonial Machine eikenshop.com/blogs/advent... #NSNuseibeh25 #Namesake #ReflectionsOnAWarriorWoman

"the Crusades had been seen by the West as completely legitimate, while jihads were a form of reprehensible violence directed against us as the infidel. Both were holy wars. " #NSNuseibeh25 #Namesake #ReflectionsOnAWarriorWoman

recent research cven suggests that the same nerve regions are stimulated whether you're reading about an act or experiencing in actuality. #NSNuseibeh25 #Namesake #ReflectionsOnAWarriorWoman

Part of the difficulty in reading her, though, is also, paradoxically, that she herself didnt read, and this-a readinglesslife- I find impossible to imagine.#NSNuseibeh25 #Namesake #ReflectionsOnAWarriorWoman

A good wordsmith could take the stage, and the best of these speches and poems would according to tradition. be embroidered and hung on the market's walls. The best of the best would be woven in letters of gold and draped over the walls of the Kaaba;

Biginning and Ende are in God. The end is in the beginning right from the beginning. Beginning / End: End / Beginning. Bigin the Ende, begin Eden. That is: the counter-program to bestial hell. #Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

"And thou, shrewd mortal, prudently make known, Lest ever thou should'st my commands neglect" I am waiting for the commands, Father Lucifer, known as Schattenfroh. #Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

#Schattenfroh #MichaelLentz #Lentz25 “the eleventh secretary put the pudding into his mouth…written on his paper: ‘And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it…’” Revelation 10:10 I took the little book out of the angel's hand,and ate it up;and it was in my mouth sweet as honey…

alpha and omega Biginning Ende in End Biginning The ende that thou seekest woven into the beginning He who ist wys on earth shall be holie in hevene #Lentz25

The "hell not from here" seems to have nothing to do with the "hell from here" which was imparted to us from an early age. So, is there not a hell that is from here? Does the true hell surpass all homemade imaginings? #Lentz25

Each letter looks like a gun if one stares at it for a little too long. With a single word, one shall no longer be able to conceal the weapons on one's person, from sentence to sentence, a whole arsenal quickly comes together. #Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

As the eleventh-century poet-philosopher Abu al-Alaa al-Ma arri wrote: Now this religion happens to prevail Until by that one it is overthrown, Because men dare not live with men alone But always with another fairy tale. #NSNuseibeh25 #Namesake #ReflectionsOnAWarriorWoman

Jerusalem: а future promised every year to every generation during the Seder. My past and my history and my home promised to someone else. #NSNuseibeh25 #Namesake #ReflectionsOnAWarriorWoman

In the Israeli alter-narrative, the "Palestine of 1948 was land without a people for a people without a land,"today"the hundreds of Palestinian villages & towns destroyed in 1948 are still forced out of Israeli public awareness, away from the signposts of memory." #NSNuseibeh25

Perhaps Muhammad told Nusayba how it was in this place, in the Old City of Jerusalem, that he met all the prophets of the past- Adam and Jesus and Moses and Abraham and understood his place among them The last link in a chain of belief. #NSNuseibeh25 #Namesake

To be Palestinian is to carry the Nakba in ones genes, the shock alive and buzzing molding our subconscious. Reading about it brought the candle's flame closer to the skin. #NSNuseibeh25 #Namesake #ReflectionsOnAWarriorWoman