We are united, he and I, though strangers, against the two women in front of us talking so steadily and audibly across the aisle to each other. Bad manners.
punctum iesaka

Melanholiskais raksturs
Melanholiskais raksturs savā piezīmju burtnīcā ar īpašu aizrautību fiksē tās atziņas, kas par laikmeta iezīmi padara viņa nevarību izvēlēties jaunu mīlestības objektu.

W. G. Sebald: The last interview
Without memories there wouldn’t be any writing: the specific weight an image or phrase needs to get across to the reader can only come from things remembered – not from yesterday but from a long time ago.

The Altergorithm
The difference between ‘what if’ and ‘as if’ scenarios, and what contemporary art has to do with it.

Thomas Bernhard, the Alienator
„If, I thought, I want new storm windows to replace the old ones on my house which are almost totally rotted, I have to accept the prize, and so I had decided to take the Wildgans Prize…”

From „Microliths”
True poetry is antibiographical. The poet’s homeland is his poem and changes from one poem to the next.

I Look to Theory Only When I Realize That Somebody Has Dedicated Their Entire Life to a Question I Have Only Fleetingly Considered
The future of writing is the managing of emptiness.

A Selection of Marcel Broodthaer’s Poetry
Night came with its hail of cartouche. The moon turned its pistol on the passive thieves.