Daily Dose

From Literature Class: Berkley 1980, by Julio Cortazar, translated by Katherine Silver

BECAUSE

"Because there is something we are sensitive to it is profound intuitions, irrational things; we really are, even if our intellect often goes on the defensive and forbids them, denies us access to them."

From Fifth Class, Musicality and Humor in Literature

Clerihew for the Inscrutable Argentine

JULIO CORTAZAR

Julio Cortazar,
Couldn't be more bizarre,
Nor could his work be less accessible
(My own opinion's... inexpressible.)

A Caricature

Daily Dose

From Blow-Up and Other Stories, by Julio Cortazar, translated by Paul Blackburn

SEATED

"Seated ready to tell it, if one might go to drink a bock over there, and the typewriter continue by itself (because I use the machine), that would be perfection."

From Blow-Up