June 2012
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THIS NPR ARTICLE ABOUT FIONA APPLE QUOTES SIANNE... →
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“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something...”
– Kafka, recently rediscovered
February 2012
8 posts
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To her surprise, when she was not asleep, he...
She was the only person she had ever heard of she could envy. About half an hour later, he approached her. His purpose was to kiss her lovingly. He said her name sweetly, which caused her to feel very fortunate. Perhaps this should have been brooded over—what her name is. Her eyes, ears, nostrils, mouth, anus, legs, and other parts of her are wrongly formed. Her skin...
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Talking
declaration: The amorous subject’s propensity to talk copiously, with repressed feeling, to the loved being, about his love for that being, for himself, for them: the declaration does not bear upon the avowal of love, but upon the endlessly glossed form of the amorous relation.
Initially it is for the other that I discourse upon the relation; but this may also occur in the presence of my...
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January 2012
11 posts
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The Key to Happiness
It would have been very unlike me to be unenchanted very often. Once when the telephone was ringing when I returned home, I was not delighted. This is the way it is often now in my own home. I am so used to it—as if I were in that part of the world where when you are a visitor everything is so enchanting. The radio is not even on very loud. I have turned it off. I am full of contentment....
“As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I...”
– Roland Barthes, 1977
“While everyone thought she was attending, she was living through fairy tales in...”
– Breuer & Freud, 1893.
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Depressive Analytics, And A Loophole
I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, eyes – I wonder if It weighs like Mine – Or has an Easier size. I wonder if They bore it long – Or did it just begin – I could not tell the Date of Mine – It feels so old a pain – I wonder if it hurts to live – And if They have to try – And whether – could They choose between – It would not be – to die – I note that Some – gone patient...
“But, the truth is, I don’t want us to kiss, I want us to teach each other how...”
– Carrie on her friendship with Fred. (via provenance)
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The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me
‘the withness of the body’ —Whitehead The heavy bear who goes with me, A manifold honey to smear his face, Clumsy and lumbering here and there, The central ton of every place, The hungry beating brutish one In love with candy, anger, and sleep, Crazy factotum, dishevelling all, Climbs the building, kicks the football, Boxes his brother in the hate-ridden city. Breathing at my...
December 2011
24 posts
me: merry christmas! wish we were doing a chosen family thing. I think we should soon.
feeltank: Meryl Christmas. meant to say merry but somehow Meryl works! yes, chosen family in 2012? Bc this shot is getting old.
me: It's a real old shot, let's start thinking cabin.
feeltank: Yesss It needs to be like the cabin/ski lodge episode of Every Sitcom. hijinx will ensue!
me: i'll be the one who ends up with the hair that responds hilariously to the climate
me: you can be the one who keeps disappearing mysteriously to, it will turn out, rekindle an old penchant for off-track betting
feeltank: Teebs will be the one who,during the inevitable blackout, crawls into the bed of the wrong man.
me: that man will turn out to be diego's allegedly deceased, but it turns out merely gay, biological father whom he's never met.
feeltank: Wilkinson gets the whimsical subplot involving a child or a small dog.
feeltank: Did I mention that this is all occurring on our hospice sitcom? "First, they were Living Single. Now, they're Dying Together."
me: Can we just go ahead and call it Shady Pines?
feeltank: Brillz.
“One’s gaze, on leaving the shadow of the stairwell, was painful, dazzled, or...”
– Italo Calvino, The Watcher (1963)
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“Now that depth-psychology, with the help of films, soap operas and Horney, has...”
– Adorno, Minima Moralia
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“And then I got mad, so I started running errands.”
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“i want to see her humiliation. and i want to see her survive the grisly...”
– —wayne koestenbaum, humiliation
I’m just gonna go ahead and assume that WK is talking about some Lars Von Trier movie or other.
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“We feel an affinity with a certain thinker because we agree with him; or because...”
– Lydia Davis, “Affinity”
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November 2011
15 posts
