December 2011
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“Under the swish and the sweep,
mermaids on piano play the bottom line.”
– From Hourglass by Brad Frederiksen.
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desolant asked: in·ter·ro·gate :: There are multiple techniques employed in interrogation including deception, torture, increasing suggestibility, and the use of mind-altering drugs. Deception can form an important part of effective interrogation.
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“Cold night smell
coming in the windows. New moon floating white as a rib at the...”
– From Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson.
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ringo-n:
No such man as he, by Tristan Foster:
I hope I’m happy. […]
The fear and worship of a god is a fear and worship of the nothing, and I think you know this. That voice you spend your life waiting to hear, which you wait for only in those moments when you think it will come, is the voice of your fear.
Feeling somewhat obliged to reblog this.
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“What does it matter, after all, if margarine is just fat, when it goes further...”
– From ‘Operation Margarine’ in Mythologies by Roland Barthes.
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“In secular psychodevelopmental terms, an epiphany is a sudden, life-changing...”
– From ‘Adult World’ in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace.
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“Soul, small wandering one,
my lifelong companion,
where will you go
— numb,...”
– From Seven Last Words of the Emperor Hadrian by David Malouf.
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Stop now
because what you are doing is pointless. Instead, read Tragedy: A Curious Art Form by Anne Carson. Then re-read it. Then re-read it again.
With thanks, ultimately, to le proustitute.
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“I have felt during these last days of waiting an added sense of perplexity due...”
– To Harriet Shaw Weaver - 20 July 1919. From Selected Letters of James Joyce, edited by Richard Ellman.
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“You work in unconsciousness like you work in electronics or metallurgy. You have...”
– From The Anti-Oedipus Papers by Felix Guattari.
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“He had never dwelled on memory’s delights. Impressions slid over him, vivid but...”
– From ‘The Maker’ in Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges. Trans. by Mildred Boyer.
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“Amphibians are teaching us lessons about the state of our planet. Waves of...”
– From Lessons of the Lost by Joseph R. Mendelson III in American Scientist.
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“The demons told me that there is a hell for the sentimental and the pedantic....”
– The False Swedenborg, Dreams (1873). From Extraordinary Tales by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares.
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“I think one of the insidious lessons about TV is the meta-lesson that you’re...”
– David Foster Wallace to David Lipsky. From Smarter than You Think, a review of Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky. By Wyatt Mason in NYRB.
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“A young Persian gardener said to his Prince:
“Save me! I met death this...”
– From Le Grand Ecart by Jean Cocteau in Extraordinary Tales by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares.
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“Damn it, we’re going to crash… This can’t be happening!”
– Final words from David Robert, co-pilot of Air France Flight 447. From What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 in Popular Mechanics Magazine.
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“Olav Velthuis, a Dutch sociologist who wrote Talking Prices, the best study of...”
– From ‘Why Is Art So Damned Expensive?’ by Blake Gopnik. http://www.thedailybeast.com//content/newsweek/2011/12/04/why-is-art-so-damned-expensive.html
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“The astonishing thing is not that some people steal or that others occasionally...”
– From The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich.
Not sure what. I’m not sure what to tell you.
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“All around us, entombed in cubicles, suspended in time, reliably muted now, men...”
– From ‘Hammer and Sickle’ in The Angel Esmeralda by Don DeLillo.