Monday, May 24, 2010
Psycho alert!
Saturday, May 22, 2010
A feeling
A Feeling
I have the feeling that what I have yet to live is very little.
This head of mine looks like a crucible
Purifies and consumes.
But without a complaint, without a trace of horror,
To finish me, I want on an afternoon without clouds,
Under the limpid sun
A white viper, born from under a great jasmine,
To sweetly, sweetly, sting my heart.
Around one o'clock in the morning on Tuesday, October 25, 1938, at 46, Alfonsina Storni left the hotel room where she was staying in Mar del Plata and went to the sea ...
The next morning two workers found, on the beach, the lifeless body of the poet who had foreseen that she would live little.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Bang bang!
"depressed . . . without phone . . . money for rent . . . money for child support . . . money for debts . . . money!!! . . . I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain . . . of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners . . ." - Kevin Carter
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Having it all
Monday, May 10, 2010
The authentic details of the extraordinary suicide of Miss Moyes
Upon examination of the body, it was found that the spine was fractured as also the back of the cranium, but the features are in no way disfigured, save by the appearance of coagulated blood forced from the nostrils, eyes, and mouth by the sudden concussion; the left arm is severed just above the elbow, and is only retained in its place by the integuments and the sleeve of the dress. (LT, 12 Sep. 1839, p. 435, col. 4)
Her left arm, near the shoulder, came in contact with the bar, and was so violently severed that the part cut off flew over the iron railings several yards into the square. After striking the bar, the body fell an a tub containing a lilac plant, which it broke in pieces, as well as several flower pots, placed on the right side of the door. Not a sign of life, except some contortions of the muscles of the legs and arms, was discernible on the body when it was picked up. (Observer, 15 Sep. 1839, p.1 col. 6)