April 2013
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In the Same Space
House, coffeehouses, neighborhood: setting that I see and where I walk; year after year.
I crafted you amid joy and amid sorrows: out of so much that happened, out of so many things.
And you’ve been wholly remade into feeling; for me.
— C.P. Cavafy
March 2013
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Time Capsule
believermag:
I was so excited to find this documentary from 1996, shot in an American high school. It’s about two sisters who identified as riot grrrls, but who were known around school as the “dirty girls.” It is an incredible portrait of the ’90s, of high school in general, and of what it is like to be a teenage outcast. It runs twenty minutes and was made by Michael Lucid, who was a senior...
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February 2013
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Woman
a woman may collect cats read thrillers her insomnia may seep through the great walls of history a lizard may paralyse her a sewing machine may bend her moonlight may intercept the bangle circling her wrist
a woman may name her cats the circulating library may lend her new thrillers a spiked man may impale her a woman may add a new recipe to her scrapbook
judiciously distilling her whimper the...
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January 2013
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December 2012
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“Hepburn’s only husband was Ludlow Ogden Smith, a socialite businessman from...”
– Katharine Hepburn made her husband change his name first. (via amandahess)
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THR: At a time when it was unpopular to “do television,” you were one of the first big feature directors to go there, with 'Twin Peaks.' Why aren’t you in that market now?
Lynch: I’ll tell you. I’m walking down the street. There are people in the street. There is someone you fancy. And you turn a corner. And there she is. No two ways about it. She is the idea. You are in love. And she is the story.
November 2012
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“Lest I be accused—as I already have been—of imposing some kind of PC orthodoxy...”
– Corey Robin on Speilberg’s Lincoln.
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“Find beauty; be still.”
– W.H. Murray (via invisiblestories)
Listen.
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whatmakespistachionuts:
Listen: I don’t have anything against autobiographies, so long as the people writing them have penises that are at least a foot long when erect.
—Roberto Bolaño
i bought martin bernal’s autobiography literally an hour back though. :\
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wolf hall. →
roswitha:
Some weeks ago, I took a train from Lower Parel station at about 9 in the night. Platform 1 at Lower Parel has an awkwardly formed entry point, at the juncture of track and approach road. That night at this point, all human entry had stopped, briefly, and the crowd had swollen to a circle around a knot of quarrellers. I edged around the circle and walked up the platform, towards the...
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Reading about Gaza, I'm reminded of Brecht
coreyrobin:
Reading about the events in Gaza tonight, with Israel preparing for its second invasion in four years (the last time it killed 1400 Palestinians) and Barak and Netanyahu blustering away, I’m reminded of Bertolt Brecht’s poem “Germany” from 1933, which Hannah Arendt used as the epigraph for Eichmann in Jerusalem.
O Germany —
Hearing the speeches that ring from your house,
one...
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dreamt i was in delhi on my way to JNU or some school for a class. i was in this crowded gully and a man snatched my agha shahid ali book and it took me a while to recognize i was being mugged but then i was greatly amused by the gesture of someone stealing a book of poetry. nevertheless, my obnoxious sense of possessiveness took hold and i violently snatched my book back, started cursing in...
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“Despair is a black leather jacket that everyone looks good in. Hope is a frilly,...”
– Rebecca Solnit.
Viewing: The gratitude of Barack Obama.
Also: Astra Taylor interviews Rebecca Solnit.
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“The body of Our Saviour shat but Our Saviour shat not.”
– Omensetter’s Luck, William Gass. 