oldoldoldoldnew

oldoldoldoldnew

Home
Notes
Chat
Cioran
Archive
Leaderboard
About

Diary

23/11/2023 - 25/11/2023, & poem
I don’t remember there being a sky, but possibly that’s a general feature of dreams; if dreams tried to compete with the sublime, it might undermine…
 • Philip Traylen
08/11/2023 - 10/11/2023, & poem
Sun sets on big hill. I am writing not about what is happening but about what I want to happen; all my desires end in size and light. If I am feeling…
 • Philip Traylen
01/11/2023 - 02/11/2023
The eye is the only organ that you can witness operating: focusing, glossing over, dying. The closest the skin gets is an erection or a disease.
 • Philip Traylen
22/10/2023 - 25/10/2023
The concept: everything painted military-grade black, the absolutely latest kind, that eats light, and several extremely black cats, purring gently. You…
 • Philip Traylen
16/10/2023 - 18/10/2023, fragments/photos
All those facial features in one place, man, it really gets me going.
 • Philip Traylen
On God’s exhaustion (14/10/2023)
‘Why do you believe in God?’ ‘Because I exhausted all the other options.’
 • Philip Traylen
10/10/2023 - 11/10/2023, & photowalk/poem
All light is the light of forgetting, and all air is the air of forgetting.
 • Philip Traylen
06/10/2023 - 08/10/2023, & poems
Don’t threaten me with a good time, Socrates.
 • Philip Traylen
01/10/2023 - 04/10/2023, & poems
I’d look out over them and see each fig tree in terms of itself alone, I’d see the fig tree as the fig tree sees the fig tree: as a fig tree.
 • Philip Traylen
25/09/2023 - 27/09/2023, & poems
If language is the prisonhouse of being, then the mouth is the prisonhouse of language. The tongue, the guard.
 • Philip Traylen
19/09/2023 - 23/09/2023, & poems
The only difference between expression and confession is the presence of a priest; there’s no way that God knows the difference.
 • Philip Traylen
08/09/2023 - 12/09/2023, & poem
Civilisation is just the idea of a third person, who might know, who might not know. This is why the middle classes fostered discretion; the pleasure of…
 • Philip Traylen
© 2026 Philip Traylen · Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start your SubstackGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture