Daniil Kharms

What Interests Me


Poems.
Packing thoughts into poems.
Extracting thoughts from poems.
Once again packing thoughts into poems.
Prose.
Illumination, inspiration, clarification, transformation.
Paths of achievement.

Finding one's own system of achievement.
Various kinds of knowledge unbeknownst to science.
General laws of various phenomena.
Nought and NIL.
Numbers.
Signs.
Letters.
Type fonts and handwriting.
Everything logically meaningless and absurd.
Everything that elicits laughter.
Stupidity.
Humor.
Natural thinkers.
Omens.
Idiosyncratic superstitions.
Miracles.
Sleight of hand, but not illusions done with the help of apparatus.
Human interrelations, private.
Bon ton.
Human faces.
Women's beauty.
women's sexual physiology.
Smells.
The liquidation of squeamishness.
Washing, bathing and the bath.
Cleanliness and filth.
Food.
The preparation of certain dishes.
Serving food at the table.
Smoking pipes and cigars.
The arrangement of house, apartment and room.
Men's and women's clothing.

I'm interested in what other people are interested in.
What people do when alone.
Sleep and dreams.
Notebooks.
Writing on paper in ink or pencil.
Paper, ink, pencil.
Recording daily events.
Small smooth-haired dogs.
Women, but only my favorite type.
Anthills.
Canes, walking sticks.
Water.
Wheels.
Meteorology.

Kind old ladies of good family interest me.
Phases of the moon.
Weather reports.
Record of events.
Kabbala.
Pythagoras.



trns. by Anemone and Scotto


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