February 2012
8 posts
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was...”
– Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood (via missingthejackandtheace)
Yesterday afternoon, after a rousing day of reading Texaco and between some episodes at Cindy’s I got hit with some stomach pains that grew and grew for two hours until, barely able to stand, I ducked over the ER with Robert and Casey. No appendicitis (hoorah!), but after being discharged and seeing a GP today I’ve learned: my stomach has more or less begun waging war on my esophagus,...
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Hey guys!
This week has been one of those soul-crushingly busy, Finals Week type of weeks (5 hours of sleep! in 48 hours! Never never never never never again), but one product of the past four days and negligence of social relationships has been this guy, a blog I designed and co-administer on transitional justice in Brazil.
The conversation—in media and scholastic circles—regarding...
January 2012
43 posts
“I just want to rewind time and stay on my honeymoon forever.”
– One of Nicole’s high school friends on Facebook.
“Couldn’t everyone’s life become a work of art?” Foucault asks...”
– James Holstun, from “Foucault, the New Historicism, and the Base Curiosity of the Plebs.” This, from an article that earlier used the phrase “the salon fascism of Yeats and Marinetti,” is the first time I’ve ever truly LOL’d from an assigned article (for both the...
“So, here’s a story from A to Z
You wanna get with me, you gotta listen...”
– Sylvia Plath. (via crumpeteatingwoofter)
“Some people will go to be tonight proud to have merely reduced their daily...”
– Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape (via qts)
“I study marine invertebrates.”
– Cindy Crowley, Public Health minor
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Beirut, ‘The Akara’
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“…the university is perceived to be a site for the contestation as well as...”
– Louis A. Montrose, from “Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture”
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“Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled –
to cast aside...”
– from “The Ponds” by Mary Oliver.
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The Rhythm of the Night on Indie Shuffle →
My roommate and son and super friend Peter just had his remix of ‘Rhythm of the Night’ posted. Check it out and fly down for its premiere party next saturday at 7136 Cohn St.
“Look here Vita — throw over your man, and we’ll go to Hampton Court and dine on...”
– Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West (via brainpickings)
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“Nay then, farewell:
I have touched the highest point of all my greatness,
And...”
– Cardinal Wolsey, Henry VIII 3.2.270-75
After finishing a book I usually try to find some quote that I thought was a sock-knocker, but Henry VIII (Sorry, Shakespeare/Fletcher) made this difficult. But, hey, what an exit from our Cardinal, who was portrayed almost immediately as a giant penis.
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“Modern party-dance is simply writhing to suggestive music. It is ridiculous,...”
– David Foster Wallace, from The Broom of the System. (via thismansaballoon)
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Splitting Wood in Fairfield, CT
The whole affair is straightforward: no
blubbering, no concern for the alternative vectors,
no parents. We look at each other and fall
forward and back, not quite dancing, not quite
an argument. Too long I’ve been carrying myself
carefully but this is it: the triumph of mistakes,
arms and legs all graceless all in and leverage,
leverage as our new prayer, baby, the lower frequencies
sung...
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“You step delicately
into the wild world
and your real prize will be
the...”
– Michael Ondaatje, To a Sad Daughter, 1984
Spent a few hours tonight at a lecture on coloniality and social justice in Latin America, followed by a rousing reception of BBQ and cole slaw. Stopped by Cindy’s place and the conversation kind of turned to school. Everyone seems to be taking Organic Chem II this semester, and I wish I could give them hugs tight enough to help learn MNR, which sounds as fun as pant-lessly riding a...
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Benjamin Moser, acclaimed biographer of Clarice... →
“One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other...”
– James Joyce - The Dead (via skump)
“The central question driving literary aesthetics in the age of the iPad is no...”
– ‘Why Write Novels at All?’ - NYTimes.com (via seetheglossary)
Another juicy bit: “This is where “The Marriage Plot”’s titular enjambment of literature and love — those two beleaguered institutions — is so clarifying. Think about it: I can love you because I want to feel less alone, or I can...
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“How sad it all really seemed. How she despised the barren people in that...”
– Clarice Lispector, from “Daydreams of a Drunk Woman” in Family Ties
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Buena Vista Social Club, “Chan Chan”
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Courses I'm Making Up, Vol. I
ENLS 4010:01: Business in American Literature
In a recent address to now-renowned Occupy Wall Street protestors, Noam Chomsky claimed American business must be “overcome” for American society to be set along “a more healthy course.” Has ‘business’ as a concept and praxis always been at odds with the health of American society and democracy? How have business...
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“What was so wrong in believing in all that? What happened to the good sense I...”
– Philip Roth, from Portnoy’s Complaint
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Shit It Took Years To Learn, Vol. I
For people to know what you’re thinking you have to tell them what you’re thinking.
“The sender of a message can never fully know his recipient’s mental code book…....”
– James Gleick, The Information (via austinkleon)
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“Yes, this family portrait
is a little dusty.
The father’s face...”
– Carlos Drummond de Andrade, ‘Family Portrait’ (trans. Elizabeth Bishop)
“Forgiveness allows you to heal virtually any psychological, emotional, and...”
– Neale Walsch (via nirvikalpa)
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“I’d like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.”
-David Foster Wallace