March 2012
5 posts
February 2012
17 posts
“The world comes into the poem,
The poem comes into the world.
Reciprocity - it...”
– Gregory Orr, from Concerning The Book That is the Body of the Beloved ahuntersheart)
“No one could blame American women here if they all suddenly decided to leave the...”
– John Oliver on American contraception debates, The Bugle 183 (via sixpencesoulcake)
My Valentine took a sleeping pill so he’s still deep in REM. Meanwhile, debating whether turning a light on so I can read will wake him. Hmm.
Solitudinal
Lovely little case study, castaway cutie…
January 2012
4 posts
“The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The...”
– DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #64: Tiny Beautiful Things - The Rumpus.net (via hello-amber) (via thestateimin)
December 2011
4 posts
eng 301 final. putting it here for posterity
“I could hear the human noise we sat there making”: A Comparison of Carver’s Gin and Hemingway’s Absinthe in the Role of Communication
The characters in Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” and Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” are all confronted with a difficult paradigm: the futile attempt to reconcile feelings and emotions while understanding...
“What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via thoughtsdetained)
November 2011
30 posts
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo
Non torno vivo alcun, s’i’odo il vero,
Senza tema d’infamia ti rispondo.
LET us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us...
“Because it is the essence of all human communication. I say something...”
– Oleanna, David Mamet
root of small talk?
“There’s a sweetness in clumsy efforts
Stubborn hope always trumps lazy greed...”
– From a pamphlet given out by Godspeed You! Black Emperor at their shows.
(via unicornology, fascinated)
Home Burial
HE saw her from the bottom of the stairs
Before she saw him. She was starting down,
Looking back over her shoulder at some fear.
She took a doubtful step and then undid it
To raise herself and look again. He spoke
5
Advancing toward her: “What is it you see
From up there always—for I want to know.”
She turned and sank upon her skirts at that,
And her face changed...
I felt a funeral in my brain, And mourners, to and fro, Kept treading, treading, till it seemed That sense was breaking through.
And when they all were seated, A service like a drum Kept beating, beating, till I thought My mind was going numb.
And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, Then space began...
"Living in Sin" -- Adrienne Rich
She had thought the studio would keep itself; no dust upon the furniture of love. Half heresy, to wish the taps less vocal, the panes relieved of grime. A plate of pears, a piano with a Persian shawl, a cat stalking the picturesque amusing mouse had risen at his urging. Not that at five each morning each separate stair...
“Like branding steers or embalming the dead, teaching was a profession I had...”
– David Sedaris
“When a hurricane damaged my father’s house, my brother rushed over with a...”
– David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
Text Messages
Alysha to Tim: FWD: I really just want to have a long depth conversation about our goals and aspirations, the upcoming election, who you think should win the Nobel Peace Prize and Humanitarian of the Year, and how you feel about the current situation in Africa... not because I wanna drink and have sex. Not at all.
Me: Hahaha, I love you anyway but especially for that.
Alysha: I felt like you for a second ;)
Me: LMAO
“For the Pisces female, her truth is entirely dependent on her current feelings. She does not view her actions, thoughts, history, or intentions in terms of black and white. Instead, they are colored by an entire rainbow of shifting colors.” (The Oracle)
“Do you know when they say soul-mates? Everybody uses it in personal ads....”
– Francesca Lia Block (via atomos)