Berfrois

Intellectual Jousting in the Republic of Letters
I would have been the world’s greatest at whatever I did. If I were a garbage man, I’d be the world’s greatest garbage man! I’d pick up more garbage and faster than anyone has ever seen. To tell you the truth, I would have been the greatest at...

I would have been the world’s greatest at whatever I did. If I were a garbage man, I’d be the world’s greatest garbage man! I’d pick up more garbage and faster than anyone has ever seen. To tell you the truth, I would have been the greatest at whatever I’d done. ― Muhammad Ali (January 17 1942 – June 3 2016)

It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.

— Czesław Miłosz

Willem Roelofs, Polder Landscape With Windmill Near Abcoude, c. 1870

Willem Roelofs, Polder Landscape With Windmill Near Abcoude, c. 1870

George Inness, The Home of the Heron, 1891

George Inness, The Home of the Heron, 1891

Good Char, Bad Char

by Russell Bennetts and Rauan Klassnik

Her creatures appear duty-bound
and virtuous
Char, of the Good Tweet
Washes her hand and

unicyles our fastticking hearts
wine aloft & hurtling

decode
The Famous Full Back
Ogling the Red Chanticleer
hurtling Big Ben’s
fears of ceasing to fall

Aliens in the mouth. Aliens
Rattling her
clicker

She doesn’t ride–
wait–she flies

Wine-Dark Cease. Sh.

(SLOW MUSIC)

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

—  Jorge Luis Borges