#LesserRuins
@coffeehousepress.bsky.social Holy cow this book is so howling good I can't breathe. #lesserruins #markhaber
June 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I must face the long-postponed moment of finally learning how to silence the smartphone because an exemplary work...aims to embody the spirit of Montaigne, unthinkable w the constant assault of the smartphone, the most ironic name for an obj in human history.
-Mark Haber, LesserRuins
#sundaysentence
May 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Yes, i think, the hard cold hour is upon me and I'm not even sure
what the hard cold hour is only that it's upon me, and I have to face
it, have to gather myself for the hard cold hour, to quote Neruda
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poets.org/poem/song-de...
April 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
a young Jew from provincial Austria with two impaired parents, parents ostensibly murdered or half murdered decades before I was born so, in a sense, I was raised by the phantoms of parents the husks of parents
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April 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
No difference at all between the wails of a Pole or a Croat or a Romanian, nor an Italian or a Swede for that matter, because terror has a single language which requires no interpreter, yes, wails of infinite terror
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April 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
it was Balzac, I recall, who said, coffee connoisseurs begin as with any passion: by degrees.
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April 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I've always loved coffee black but also enjoy it with a hint of milk
or cream, but never sugar, sugar a moral crime, I'd tell my now-
dead wife, sugar in one's coffee a sign of moral decrepitude and
waning ethics
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April 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
same drink Europeans realized after its introduction from the Turks helped assuage melancholy and gloom, opening ramshackle coffeehouses throughout London where the English quickly realized the effects of the beverage were similar to alcohol or opium
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April 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The point being to create ones work despite the noise, not to make art about the noise or purported art that
chronicles the inability to make art because of the noise itself
and then call that the art.
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April 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I love my fellow creatures in theory, I think, sitting before the rolltop desk, but not in practice because my felow creatures, to quote Kleist, are pinnacles of stupidty, each ,
a perfect instrument of stupidity, she declared
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April 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
the whole catalogue of human philosophy mere exercises in futility, realizing as I wept how it all meant nothing
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April 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
every Jew a reminder
of the people they never lifted a finger to defend , all the Yids and
faggots and filthy Roma, they'd think, the people that disgusted
them for reasons they never understood because it was indoctri-
nated the moment they were born
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April 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
hatreds of entire cultures and peoples and thus hatreds of whole histories,
and instead of simply saying Jew-hater which is what it is
they call it anti- Semitism as if there's some academic rationale, some
written doctrine that supports their stupidity
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
April 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
They may have mechanized it, they may have put into production what the Polish and
Austrian and Russian Jews had suffered for centuries, but it was
always there, this anti-Semitism that drifts through the atmosphere of Europe like a vapor
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April 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Brismontier spent
little time on the rudiments or
materials of wig-making, but
waxed poetic on his favorite styles, from the Le Coq (a wig so
long its tresses reached the rump of its Occupant)
to the Danseur Méchant- Archipelago
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April 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The most worthwhile life was the one
dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge and so behind their backs
I plummeted into literature, yes, plummeted
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April 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
because what I
loved most about books is what my parents despised most about
books, yes, the pursuit of a practical purpose, because literature
is inscrutable, verging on mystical
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
April 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
because literature, I
always thought, was a wordless prayer, even though it's made up entirely of words, I thought, still, it's more akin to wordless prayer, to
transcendence and euphoria or, if not euphoria, then at least the
pursuit of euphoria
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April 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
all which I'd consumed with an intoxication bordering on rapture, were particular to me, meaning anyone who'd read the same book would'ver ead an entirely different book
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April 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
all of it troubled them, my
Iove of books, literature especially, that baffled my parents, because the practical purpose of literature is ineffable, hidden too,requiring an effort from the reader with no explanation or guaranteed outcome
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April 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
the legendary Şehzade Roast, a bean long rumored to be the best-tasting and most robust coffee bean in the world, a bean endowed with the properties of a mythical potion, the Şehzade Roast reputedly enjoyed by the great shahs and oracles of the Safavids
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April 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
because a stupid person's knowledge is a negation of knowing, a willing disregard of knowing, a knowing in deficit and this affectation of knowing is the main ingredient of the most successfully stupid
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April 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
all of them mere spokes in the wheel of stupidity because stupidity isn't simply not knowing, no, stupidity is the pretense of knowing which is arguably worse, stupidity is feigning knowledge while knowing nothing, perhaps less than nothing
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April 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
because stupidity is unrivaled,
unequivocally so, and my sculptures will do nothing more than acknowledge the stupidity and denounce the stupidity, no more than point out the fundamental and grotesque absurdity of stupidity, and perhaps that's enough.
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
April 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM