May 2012
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“We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our...”
– Henry James in “The Middle Years” (via explore-blog)
I don’t remember where I first saw this. Some Franzen essay, maybe. (That’s right, I can read!)
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: Similes: Wild →
pacify-eris:
Wild as vulture’s cry. —Æschylus
Wild as the winds that tear the curled red leaf in the air. —Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Wild as Winter. —Beaumont and Fletcher
As wild as game in July. —Dion Boucicault
Wild as one whom demons seize. —Charlotte Brontë
Wild and capricious as the wind and wave. —James Cawthorn
Wilde as chased deere. —Thomas Churchyard
A landscape rose More wild and...
April 2012
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YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF: ON SEEING THE 100%... →
youmightfindyourself:
by Haruki Murakami
One beautiful April morning, on a narrow side street in Tokyo’s fashionable Harujuku neighborhood, I walked past the 100% perfect girl. Tell you the truth, she’s not that good-looking. She doesn’t stand out in any way. Her clothes are nothing special. The back of her hair is still bent out of shape from sleep. She isn’t young, either - must be near...
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no, i never got them, and they never got me.
(I’m bumping this post from last year’s NBA playoffs to commemorate the return of my favorite player, Chris Paul, to the grand stage. It’s also far and away the finest piece of sports writing I’ve done to this point.)
No word suffers from imprecision in the English language as tragedy does. The effect has been to reduce a tightly defined concept to the description of anything that is merely sad...
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“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
– Jorge Luis Borges, Other Inquisitions, 1937-52, trans. Ruth L.C. Simms (via proustitute)
Profoundly, wonderfully, unfortunately accurate in my experience.
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The Very Best — “Kamphopo.”
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“True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise,...”
– David Foster Wallace in The Pale King (via explore-blog)
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“If you make a film, don’t forget that ‘cinema is the art of the little detail...”
– François Truffaut in a letter to Eric Rohmer, 7 January 1951 (via oldfilmsflicker)
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n+1 personals: Uncalendared Love →
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The first name cut on a rock, a King’s, Marked the beginning of time’s annals And each new year would recapitulate The unkind sloughings and renewals Of the death-serpent’s checkered skin. But you with me together, together, together, Survive ordeals never before endured. We snatch the quill out of Enoch’s hand To obliterate our names from his black scroll— Twin absentees of...
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“Well, I’ve always been unpopular in school and it doesn’t bother me, but now...”
– Dagny Taggart, Atlas Shrugged. (via nihilnoetia) (via booklover) (via libraryland, nathanielstuart)
Exhibit A for when people ask me why I don’t like Ayn Rand, from its transparently coping sense of self-importance and destiny, to its glorification of isolation, to its absolute prickishness. ...
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“The human world is midway between the spiritual and the animal, and reflects...”
– Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism.
I picked Frye’s book up on a lark, and it’s so staggeringly brilliant that insights like these just casually fall out of it every few sentences like loose change from a pocket. It helps that its questions, even on little tangents, resound with me. ...
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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of...”
– Plato (via libraryland)
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“You’re probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and...”
– Donald Barthelme
(evoketheforms)
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two paragraphs about history.
History is not “the past.” The past is only what happened. It is irretrievable. It is a ghost. And yet there’s not really a present, either, because every individual moment is so brief that “the present” leaves you suspended with one foot in yesterday, the other in tomorrow. Every instance of self-examination in your life is putting together just what the past—your life, in other words—really...
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Watchmichaelhafford:
A visual deconstruction of Reggie Watts’ beatboxing. (via The Atlantic)
Reggie Watts is the best.
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Watchbbook:
Video Essay: “Watching the Detectives: Our Favorite Movie Private Eyes”
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“Dreaming,” by Blondie.
I sit by...
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“My philosophy is: as the face gets worse, the clothes have to get better.”
– Steve Martin (via mostexerent)
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“Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of...”
– Tom Robbins - Still Life With Woodpecker (via brooklyn-forester)
On that Taxi Driver tack—here’s another (very different) take on solitude.
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Sam Cooke — “You Send Me.”
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“Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man...”
– George Orwell, Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali (via adamnorwood)
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“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That’s...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via libraryland)
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“More African American adults are under correctional control today—in prison or...”
– Michelle Alexander, Author, The New Jim Crow (via alivesoul)
BOOM!
(via lolajambon)
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