February 2011
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Feb 1st
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January 2011
31 posts
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Jan 25th
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our social history as we age
“Has it occurred to you that a sense of shall we say social history is strongest among the young and not the old? … that as people age, accumulate more and more private experience, their sense of history tightens, narrows, becomes more personal? so that to the extent they remember events of social importance, they remember only for example ‘where they were’ when...
Jan 23rd
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“When reality is unpleasant, realists tend to be unpopular” - David Foster Wallace [345]
Jan 23rd
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“We are helpless & inefficacious as parts of a system until we recognize the existence of the system” - David Foster Wallace [333]
Jan 23rd
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Suppose Gramma tells me really convincingly that all that really exists of my life is what can be said about it … it’s just that the living is the telling, that there’s nothing going on with me that isn’t either told or tellable, and if so, what’s the difference, why live at all? … If there’s nothing about me but what can be said about me, what seperates...
Jan 23rd
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“By simple definition everything telling creates and limits and defines” -David Foster Wallace [120]
Jan 23rd
I just ordered $99 worth of books from amazon for only $6! It feels so good.
Jan 20th
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“» “What would you say to some champagne?” » “Oh...”
–                                                                                                - Rope 
Jan 17th
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“I’m no longer sure what I think, or even if I think at all.’ I...”
–                                                                                            - Simone de Beauvior
Jan 17th
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“Creative people who can’t help but explore other mental territories are at...”
– R. D. Laing (via libraryland)
Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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from Expressway - Sina Queyras
Writing is not a commodity. Original is not a commodity. Writing is thinking made visible. Original is what you haven’t seen. Writing is a disordered hum. Original is singing. Writing is always forward (or backward depending on language and global positioning). Original is what you don’t recognize. Writing is the space between this  (Original is here) and this (on the train, now) space is only in...
Jan 13th
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I've Already Lived My Life
Before the iPhone came, we lived like pigs, barely able to resist fratricide. I’m honestly amazed I survived before, what with all that listening to people. When the flood of favorite apps came to me, I let the flow take me to where it wanted. I could be anywhere, looking at pictures of drunk people on the internet.  I could see the friend at the masquerade and how some HuffPost thing was...
Jan 13th
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Exception paradox: “If there is an exception to every rule, then every rule must have at least one exception; the exception to this one being that it has no exception.” “There’s always an exception to the rule, except to the exception of the rule — which is, in of itself, an accepted exception of the rule.” Variations on the Paradox The liar paradox has similar...
Jan 13th
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“There are times when a feeling of expectancy comes to me as if something is...”
–                                                                                        - S. Plath’s Journal 
Jan 13th
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Words For You - C. Bukowski
                                                                                   Red dogs in green hell, what is this divided thing I call myself? What message is this I’m offering here? It’s so easy to slide into  poetic presentation. almost all art is shot through with  poetic pretension: painting sculpting the stage music What is this foolsih  strutting and...
Jan 13th
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To...”
– Marie Curie, Pierre Curie (1923)
Jan 11th
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“We live on top of a crumbling world. The more it crumbles the more I feel like...”
–                                                                                      - Anais Nin July 1936
Jan 10th
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Jan 10th
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“‘There never will be a book, because some one else has written it for...”
–                                                                     - V. Woolf “The Voyage Out”
Jan 10th
“The creative adult is the child who has survived.”
– Ursula LeGuin (via thatswhatshesaidquotes)
Jan 10th
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Jan 8th
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Me Victorious - Sina Queyras
Me with my new blue jeans and t-shirt from the Gap; me with pink underwear and a goldfish shower curtain from Target; me with my full tank of gas and my recycling stacked. Me victorious red, white and blue, in clean socks and discount hair; me victorious and tummy full. Me about unconditional market rules. Me about not caring whether our socks are made by infants in Bangladesh, our potatoes...
Jan 4th
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Jan 4th
perspective photos: they are so neat →
Jan 3rd
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Jan 3rd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5EqR0GvkP4&feature=... →
Jan 2nd
A Writer's Ruminations: Virginia Woolf's New... →
awritersruminations: January 2, 1931: Here are my resolutions for the next 3 months; the next lap of the year. To have none. Not to be tied. To be free & kindly with myself, not goading it to parties: to sit rather privately reading in the studio. To make a good job of The Waves. To stop irritation by the…
Jan 1st
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