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🍁🍂🧡 Autumn! 🧡🍂🍁 "I told her voler oddly means both to fly and to steal in French. Faites attention those who voler. I told her to say, nous sommes ouvert demain. She said, nous sommes ouvert deux mains. 👐🏻 Like a dissection. She got the job and when I see her in there she usually comes out to tell me 'mercy mercy'!" #theseas by #samanthahunt #amreading #paris #france #autumn #october #leaves #trees #halloween 🎃🍁🍂 #chic #stockings #french #language #americanliterature #literartquotes 🍂🍂 @peglar

Tintamarre 🎶 & Dora Maar & @peglar 🐝 & @rivasjoshuam 💐 & Lucas #paris #tintamarre #nyualum #picassomuseum #doramaar #picasso #france #noisemaker #americanexpat #coffee #cookies #fleur #espresso

🌘🌘MOX NOX! New podcast is up featuring yours truly as well as the regular podcasting quartet and special guest, Elizabeth Scanlon, Editor of The American Poetry Review. Download for some lively discourse on contemporary poetry and a trip to "image school" from studios in Philadelphia and Abu Dhabi. With @timfitts77 @marionwrenn @alilovesjiujitsu @kvm1303 missing @jasonschneiderman #slushpile #poetsofinstagram #elizabethscanlon #lonesomegnosis #writersofinstagram #americanpoets #americanpoetryreview #podcast #philadelphia #nyc #abudhabi #samanthaneugebauer #poetry #moxnox #recommendedlistening #poems 🍁🍁

Attending a vernissage for archi-designer Gio Ponti at @peglar 's work. Ponti, 'a mythical character from the Italian design scene', revolutionized post-war architecture, and contributed to the fields of glassware, ceramics, and metalwork. I like this butterfly desk...imagine writing every morning on it. 🦋✍🏻 Also, the Surrealist Armoire from Marcel Jean, perhaps the most important writer on Surrealism. #museedesartsdecoratifs #exhibitpreview #gioponti #italiandesign #paris #france #autumninparis #surrealism #marceljean #desks #butterfly #papillon #farfalla #architect #design #museo #museumsofinstagram #americanexpat #autumn 🍁🍁

Favola, poète maudit 🐅 "Two great stars brighten the sky over the 20th Century novel: that of surrealism, with its enchanting call for the fusion of dream and reality, and that of existentialism. Kafka died too soon to know their writers and their aesthetic programs... [yet] The more attentively, fixedly, one observes reality, the better one sees that it does not corrospond to people's idea of it; under Kafka's long gaze it is gradually revealed as empty of reason, thus non-reasonable, thus implausible. It is that long avid gaze set on the real world that led Kafka, and other great novelists after him, past the frontier of the plausible." #milankundera #thecurtain #catsofinstagram #amreading #bookshelf #abudhabi #uae #plausibility #writersofinstagram #poetsofinstagram #surrealism #kafka #history #literature #germanliterature #czech #novels #reality #maga #bookstagram #catselfie #maps #balloons #💣

New #nonfiction on Postscript Magazine (link in bio @postscriptmag), my review of @louvreabudhabi 's special exhibit, Japanese Connections: The Birth of Modern Décor 🍁🎑 #museum #japan #louvre #abudhabi #uae #japanese #art #japaneseart #westernart #artistsoninstagram #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #artreview #samanthaneugebauer #visitabudhabi #museo #history #culture #postscript #louvreabudhabi #museumsofinstagram #moderndecor #decor #design #interiordesign #eastasia #asianart

@tianaclarkypants 💣🌼 Found its way to the UAE!! 😊😊 Favorites: "First Tree, at Church Camp (speaking of white male laughter...) & "The Ayes Have It" (the ending evokes Jackie Kay's "In My Country" for me) #tianaclark #icanttalkaboutthetreeswithouttheblood #recommended #poetsofinstagram #amreading #uae #abudhabi #americanpoets #poetry #bookstagram #bookshelf #poets #ninasimone #trees #history #blacklivesmatter #newvoices

Completing Cusk's oeuvre is bittersweet. This is the final book in her Outline series, which upended the quasi-Victorian idea of omniscient narrator, storytelling, and plot, brimming with backstory as well as prior and future knowledge of characters. When speaking on the series, which favors theme over characters or plot, Cusk has said she wanted to reflect the plotless-ness of real life and combat the idea (that people may carry with them over into their real lives) that there is an all-knowing narrator for us all, who knows our fate and has our ending "in their hands". #kudos #rachelcusk "Sometimes it has seemed to me that life is a series of punishments for such moments of unawareness, that one forges one’s own destiny by what one doesn’t notice or feel compassion for; that what you don’t know and don’t make the effort to understand will become the very thing you are forced into knowledge of." #outline #transit #modernlitature #literature #britishliterature #cusk #amreading #bookshelf #storytelling #bookstagram #life #fiction #bookworm 📚📚 I recommend most of her books, but the Outline series first.

Bravo! This show was sui generis, I've never encountered something like it. Something for bibliophiles as well as theater folks...and anyone who likes the experimental. 8 hours of bliss. The book is the only script. Consider seeing it when it's back in NYC or on Monday if in 'Abu Dubai'. You'll leave thinking about how the characters in your life and the characters in the books you read interplay, among other things. 🎷🎺👐🏻👐🏿 "He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey." - #fscottfitzgerald #gatz #thegreatgatsby #theater #nyuad #nyuadarts #jazzage #bookshelf #amreading #jaygatsby #americanliterature #bookworm #nyc #elevatorrepairservice #abudhabi #uae #experimentalart #performance #literature #american #literaryquotes #simplyabudhabi

New poem on @postscriptmag (link in bio) ✍🏻 This is another poem in the same series as the pyrenées poem exploring male complicity in regard to women’s subjugation, rape, and sometimes, death at the hands of other men. This second poem draws together the defiance of the overlooked biblical heroine, Vashti, and the recent tragic murder of student Mollie Tibbetts in Iowa. #poetsofinstagram #poetrycommunity #writersofinstagram #feminism #biblicalhistory #women #womensupportingwomen #metoo #history #poets #samanthaneugebauer #vashti #mollietibbetts #postscriptmagazine #abudhabi #uae #zagros #moutains

October by Maurice Denis, borrowed from the Musée d'Orsay, for the Louvre Abu Dhabi's exhibit on 'Japonese Connections: The Birth of Modern Décor', which traces the history of 'Japonism' in the west after Japan ceased its self-isolation in 1853. #meijiera 🇦🇪🇫🇷🇯🇵🍁🍂 'October' is part of a series of panels following the development of a girl's love...& that curled cat is very Japanese, right, Murakami?! #symbolism #arthistory #mauricedenis #louvreabudhabi #museedorsay #japanese #japonism #october #abudhabi #uae #museo #museums #eastasia #murakami 🍁

"It was perfectly possible to become the prisoner of an artist's vision, I said. Like love, I said, being understood creates the fear that you will never be understood again. But there have been other paintings, I said...when he wrote his book it was the desire to be free of shame that drove him on." #rachelcusk and #wislawaszymborska #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #amreading #artistsoninstagram #writingcommunity #womenempowerment #ploughshares #polishwriters #englishwriters #transit #killshame #literary #mosaic 🌿 I don't know

"I had come to England, aged five, with my parents and sister in April 1960, to the town of Guildford, Surrey...when I look back at this period, and remember it was less than twenty years from the end of a world war in which the Japanese had been their bitter enemies, I'm amazed by the openness and instinctive generosity with which our family was accepted by this ordinary English community." So hopeful and inspiring! #kazuoishiguro #allarewelcome #england #japan #amreading #literaryquotes #greatspeeches #nobelprize #lectures #writerscommunity #japaneseliterature #britishliterature #ishiguro #makeamericagreatagain #immigrantstories #kindness #history

Second in the trilogy! "The sad fact...is that in this era of science and unbelief we have lost the sense of our own significance. We have become cruel, to ourselves and others, because we believe that ultimately we have no value." #rachelcusk #transit #amreading #bookshelf #bookstagram #abudhabi #uae #cusk #fiction #outline #trilogy #tea #fleurs 🌸

New #fiction #shortstory on #postscriptmagazine (link in bio @postscriptmag) 🌿 Check out all the pieces in the #heartbreak issue! #writersofinstagram #identity #women #samanthaneugebauer #friendshipstory #love #thebreakofday #trees #nature #amreading #amwriting #storytelling #narrative #readersofinstagram #poetsofinstagram #artistsoninstagram

Eyes in the Heat 🔆🔅👁#jacksonpollock in #venezia #throwbackthursday _______________________ #americanart #paintings #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #drippainting #artistsofinstagram #peggiguggenheim #hats #hat #eyesintheheat #soundsinthegrass #americanabroad #eyes #arthistory #candid

#shinhanga 🎨🌿 “In the late 19th century, the woodblock print industry in Japan was undergoing significant changes...giving rise to an art movement known as shin hanga.” #🇯🇵 #woodblockprint #japaneseart #artistsoninstagram #japan #日本 #thewellscollection #amreading #bookstagram #bookshelf #artbooks #eastasia ✨

🎶🎶 “Such as watching an Oyster Dance—where a naked woman on a small stage danced alone to piano music. The best was Olivia the Oyster Dancer who would place a raw oyster on her forehead and lean back and shimmy it down all over her body without ever dropping it. The oyster would crisscross and move finally down to her instep. Then she would kick it high into the air and would catch it on her forehead and begin again.” Reminds me a bit of Salma Hayek’s mesmerizing dance in From Dusk Till Dawn 🔅🔆🔅 #michaelondaatje #comingthroughslaughter #amreading #jazz #storyville #ondaatje #neworleans #dance #oysters #fromdusktilldawn #uae #abudhabi #taxi #bookshelf #fiction

“As it happened I was no longer interested in literature as a form of snobbery or even of self-definition – I had no desire to prove that one book was better than another: in fact, if I read something I admired I found myself increasingly disinclined to mention it at all. What I knew personally to be true had come to seem unrelated to the process of persuading others. I did not, any longer, want to persuade anyone of anything.” A woman who does not post books on social media, perhaps. #cusk #outline #rachelcusk #outlinetrilogy #kudos #transit #literature #blackcoffee #abudhabi #uae #bookshelf #amreading #bookstagram 🌿

New #poem in the next issue of @postscriptmag (link in bio)🌿 Inspired after learning of the geoglyph Marree Man while in central Australia. #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #roadtrip #australia #marreeman #naturalwonder #poets #poetry #samanthaneugebauer #stuarthighway #outback #thebush #roadtrips #abudhabi #uae “Postscript Magazine is a literary & journalistic collective formed in Paris, France, with a global team of writers.” #postscript #postscriptmagazine

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Samantha Neugebauer in Uncategorized February 5, 2017 39 Words

100 days 100 short stories:: story 55

story: One Day A Week

author: Mohammad Al Murr

year: 2008

where: Reem Island after the blackout

note: I can only say ‘Rashidiya’ like the metro man

a line: “Five days a week she passed in a torment of anticipation.”

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