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𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙻'𝙰𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛

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𝐬𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐬, 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 weaponize.substack.com

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𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙻'𝙰𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛 @marshall-lamour.thriambus.com · 03/06/2025

Been remiss, but no longer. Onto The Iron Heel, my long-anticipated entry into Jack London.

Me outside holding The Iron Heel, by Jack London

𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙻'𝙰𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛 @marshall-lamour.thriambus.com · 02/02/2025

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𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙻'𝙰𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛 @marshall-lamour.thriambus.com · 03/07/2024

He held his hands before him and looked at his palms. As if they may have been at some work not of his own doing. The past, he said, is always this argument between counterclaimants. Memories dim with age. There is no repository for our images. The loved ones who visit us in dreams are strangers. To even see aright is effort. We seek some witness but the world will not provide one. This is the third history. It is the history each man makes alone out of what is left to him. Bits of wreckage. Some bones. The words of the dead. How make a world of this? How live in that world once made?

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𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙻'𝙰𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛 @marshall-lamour.thriambus.com · 03/07/2024

In the world that came to be that which prevailed could never speak for that which perished but could only parade its own arrogance. It pretended symbol and summation of the vanished world but was neither. He said that in any case the past was little more than a dream and its force in the world greatly exaggerated. For the world was made new each day and it was only men's clinging to its vanished husks that could make of that world one husk more.

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𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙻'𝙰𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛 @marshall-lamour.thriambus.com · 01/07/2024

From The Crossing, by #CormacMcCarthy

They quit the country and returned again in the spring. They had no money left. A seeress tried to warn them back. One of their own. He had weighed the woman's words, but he knew what she did not. That if a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come. He is bound to no one that the world unfold just so upon its course and those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream? He paused that all might contemplate this. That he might contemplate it himself.

𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙻'𝙰𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛 @marshall-lamour.thriambus.com · 01/07/2024

From The Crossing, by #CormacMcCarthy

He smiled. He smoked the last of the cigarette to an ash and let the ash fall into the fire and blew the smoke slowly after. He licked his thumb and wiped it on the knee of his trousers. He said that for men of the road the reality of things was always of consquence. He said that the strategist did not confuse his devices with the reality of the world for then what would become of him? El mentiroso debe primero saber la verdad, he said. De acuerdo?

𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙻'𝙰𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛 @marshall-lamour.thriambus.com · 01/07/2024

From The Crossing, by #CormacMcCarthy

He nodded. He knew her well enough, this old woman of Mexico, her sons long dead in that blood and violence which her prayers and her prostrations seemed powerless to appease. Her frail form was a constant in that land, her silent anguishings. Beyond the church walls the night harbored a millennial dread panoplied in feathers and the scales of royal fish and if it yet fed upon the children still who could say what worse wastes of war and torment and despair the old woman's constancy might not have stayed, what direr histories yet against which could be counted at last nothing more than her small figure bent and mumbling, her crone's hands clutching her beads of fruitseed. Unmoving, austere, implacable. Before just such a God.

𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙻'𝙰𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛 @marshall-lamour.thriambus.com · 25/06/2024

From The Crossing, by #CormacMcCarthy

She said that her grandmother was skeptical of many things in this world and of none more than men. She said that in every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war thev die.

𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙻'𝙰𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛 @marshall-lamour.thriambus.com · 21/06/2024

From The Crossing, by #CormacMcCarthy

When the boy asked him if this knowledge were a special knowledge only to the blind the blind man said that it was not. He said that most men were in their lives like the carpenter whose work went so slowly for the but dullness of his tools that he had not time to sharpen them.

𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙻'𝙰𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛 @marshall-lamour.thriambus.com · 14/05/2024

#YukioMishima (on Hagakure)

From Yukio Mishima's "The Way of the Samurai" ("on Hagakure in Modern Life")

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𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙻'𝙰𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛 @marshall-lamour.thriambus.com · 13/05/2024

#YukioMishima (on Hagakure)

From Yukio Mishima's "The Way of the Samurai" ("on Hagakure in Modern Life")

𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙻'𝙰𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛 @marshall-lamour.thriambus.com · 22/03/2024

from The Crossing, by #CormacMcCarthy

"He was simply a messenger. He had no faith in the power of men to act wisely in their own behalf. It was his view rather that every act soon eluded the grasp of its propagator to be swept away in a clamorous tide of unforeseen consequence. He believed that in the world was another agenda, another order, and with this power lay whatever brief he may have held. In the meantime he waited to be called to he knew not what." -- from The Crossing, by Cormac McCarthy

𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙻'𝙰𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛 @marshall-lamour.thriambus.com · 08/03/2024

𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙻'𝙰𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛 @marshall-lamour.thriambus.com · 05/02/2024

From Bataille's The Limit of the Useful:

Georges Bataille, The Limit of the Useful p144, Economy at the Scale of the Universe, Man as a Solution to the Problem of Extension

Georges Bataille, The Limit of the Useful p145, Economy at the Scale of the Universe, Man as a Solution to the Problem of Extension, Man as a Solution to the Problem of Expenditure

Georges Bataille, The Limit of the Useful p146, Economy at the Scale of the Universe, Man as a Solution to the Problem of Expenditure

Georges Bataille, The Limit of the Useful p147, Economy at the Scale of the Universe, Man as a Solution to the Problem of Expenditure

𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙻'𝙰𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛 @marshall-lamour.thriambus.com · 06/12/2023

Austro-Hungarian soldier on the slope of Gisnitz (Alps), WWI, 1916

𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙻'𝙰𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛 @marshall-lamour.thriambus.com · 16/09/2023

At the Oscar Howe exhibit.

𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙻'𝙰𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛 @marshall-lamour.thriambus.com · 13/07/2023

From Sun and Steel, by Yukio Mishima