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Herbert Pföstl

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Fields for plant, stone, and animal forms. Emblem banners of departing lands.

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Postcard to a friend. The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. So do the spirits who are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be spirit. Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak, aphorism 573 (trans. Walter Kaufmann)
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Painting, reading, looking at things.
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Happy Holidays.
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Friends, My best books of 2025 for the New Museum in New York are now up and available. To read the reviews: www.newmuseumstore.org/collections/... My best of at DAP: www.artbook.com/blog-ex-libr... A few of my favorites at Point Reyes Books: ptreyesbooks.com/herberts-fav...
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
k + h ∞ h + k
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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · 22/09/2017
Llewelyn Powys on the Lark and his dusky darling, from the ever astonishing Earth Memories, published by @LittleToller
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Go out to the roses and the bees and the dove-cots. But especially to the songbirds, that you may learn from them how to sing! Singing is for the convalescent; the healthy can speak. Nietzsche : Zarathustra
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Accessible but veiled.
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Letter to a friend.
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Be glad: the house is mined, it will fall. - Robinson Jeffers The Broken Balance
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
My painting "No Omen but Awe" is on view at the permanent collection gallery at the Bolinas Museum. Come west & stop by.
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Very few get the biographer they deserve—R. Crumb got lucky. Dan Nadel's wonderfully candid chronicle does not recoil, moralize, or whitewash. It's my book of the month at the New Museum. @newmuseum.bsky.social. Full review here: www.newmuseum.org/articles/boo...
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Edward Gorey, who painted his toenails black on the day Gertrude Stein died.
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
"...a handful of dust." || Postcard to a friend.
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
And I the apparition, I the spectre. - Whitman
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
This was that Earth of which we have heard, made out of Chaos and Old Night. [...] Man was not to be associated with it. – Thoreau, The Maine Woods
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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
If you find yourself in New York City, please stop by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in Tribeca to see Louise Despont's beautiful solo exhibition—Afterlifes. I'm working on a book with Louise & wrote the exhibition's accompanying text, which can be found here: nicellebeauchene.com/exhibitions/...
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
For k.
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken. - George Eliot
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Yuri Knorozov, who studied Mayan hieroglyphic writing. Why is there no book about him?
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Got myself some birthday presents @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I want to represent things as they are, or rather as they would be, supposing I did not exist. - Charles Baudelaire, Salon of 1859 To see a landscape as it is when I am not there... - Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Das Fett der Werke wird verfaulen. Übrig bleiben ein paar Sätze. - Canetti
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
No counsel is more trustworthy than that which is given upon ships that are in peril. - Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
These lies mean that the country wants to die. (Robert Bly, The Teeth Mother Naked At Last, 1970)
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
László F. Földényi's "The Long Shadow of the Guillotine" arrives in the mail on the same day as Julia Kristeva's "The Severed Head." Coincidence? Elective affinity? An omen?
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
the things of this world: snake.
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
"The lesson of these days is the vulgarity of wealth. We know that wealth will vote for the same thing which the worst and meanest of the people vote for," noted Emerson's Journal in 1854.
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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
A boy told me the little jumping spider was “a friend”.
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
"Schoenberg archives destroyed in LA fires." †
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Departed there and landed here. Carried all my twitters with me––from 2016 until now. May this port prove solid.
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Cristina Campo wrote about the "accumulation of time and secrets" in "The Unforgivable," one of my favorite books @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social in 2024. Good books are sanctuaries that can be shared. ptreyesbooks.com/list/best-bo... ptreyesbooks.com/herberts-fav... Here's to a wondrous new year.
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
​Osip Mandelstam - Two Poems. Translated by Andrew Davis. Hand set and printed letterpress by The Brother In Elysium. Edition of 175 copies. thebrotherinelysium.com/shop/osip-ma...
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
My music is best understood by children and animals––said Stravinsky.
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
It is a mistake to believe in my presence. - Hugo Ball, Flight Out of Time
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Is it true the question mark derives from the shape of the tail of a cat when surprised. Sorry unfair question. - Anne Carson, Wrong Norma
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
...alles Sieghafte ist völlig unerträglich. - Gottfried Benn, Brief an Oelze
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
...and they held out as long as they could. For Kirston @epidotepress, these days & all days.
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Schigaljow sah so aus , als erwarte er den Untergang der Welt, und dies nicht etwa in unbestimmter Ferne, sondern ganz bestimmt, etwa übermorgen früh, genau 25 Minuten nach 10. - Dostojewski, Die Dämonen
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Like Whitman, Chesterton thought that the mere fact of existing is so prodigious that no misfortune should exempt us from a kind of cosmic gratitude. - Jorge Luis Borges / Robert Bresson, Mouchette
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
America, at times, seems to be the only country to have gone directly from adolescence to senility, without intervention. Noted Paul Metcalf, some time ago.
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Looking forward to this one from The Brother In Elysium. thebrotherinelysium.com/shop/osip-mand…
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 13/10/2024
Schreiben, malen, formen, erbauen und erfinden –– der Hölle zu entrinnen ist das wahre Ziel. - Antonin Artaud
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Friends, I have a few last copies of the broadside edition of my text on the immoderately experimental, radiantly rare & radically strange conjuror of future sounds Charles Ives. Letterpress printing & collage work by Jon Beacham of The Brother In Elysium. DM me if interested.
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Fragment on Ives. More information here: herbertpfostl.com/publications#/…
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
What do answers answer anyway. They fit onto questions like a stocking onto a leg but the blood stains still refuse to evaporate. - Anne Carson, Wrong Norma
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
Artaud (as "Knife Grinder") in Fritz Lang's 1934 "Liliom.
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
The last issue of IM LABYRINTH has been published. It includes my painting "no omen but awe" (below) and a text piece as bow to some pictorial wonders of the dead. Relics of light for me––and (maybe) you. Special thanks to Harald Wolf for his curiosity & candor across the years.
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
Ewiger Traum, daß man etwas nicht macht, sondern daß es entsteht. - Gottfried Benn
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