March 2012
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February 2012
38 posts
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“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”
– Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (via astroblem) I mean, I don’t recall the passage, but I’m nearly certain that it’s discours indirect libre of Emma Bovary and brilliant.
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“Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams
Kenneth Koch
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– Kenneth Koch
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“Anguish [Angoisse]
I have not come to tame your body, Beast
holding a...”
– Mallarmé
My God, what I wouldn’t give to be able to write like that. Definitely a candidate for my top 3 erotic poems of all time.The translation masks Baudelaire’s influence in a few parts—“tedium” is in fact “ennui”, and the image of first stanza...
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“We must not inquire too curiously into motives,” he interposed, in his measured...”
– Eliot, Middlemarch.
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thefuckwouldisaywhatfor:
I’ve been contemplating...
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“I lay in the shade of some bushes with a fledgling sixteen-year-old, all...”
– Eco, “Granita”. Pretty amazing—“desired wand of my pubescent thaumaturgy” is quite a line, and Eco does a brilliant job mocking Nabokov’s own “turgid” (zing!) style
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“I never accosted a woman who responded with a smile, because I knew that anyone...”
– М. Агеев, Роман с кокаином (M. Ageyev, Novel With Cocaine)
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“Maria Gavrilovna had been brought up on French novels and consequently was in...”
– Pushkin, “The Snow Storm”.
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if i believe
[...]
when in my fingers
drooped your shining body
when my heart
sang between your perfect
breasts
darkness and beauty of stars
was on my mouth petals danced
against my eyes
and down
the singing reaches of
my soul
spoke
[...]
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“If you name the behaviour of an individual, you reveal it to him; he sees...”
– Sartre, What Is Writing?
I sometimes find Sartre to be a clumsy stylist, but sometimes he is absolutely amazing.
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This wound which is not one
Man, who through his work, has a monopoly on the symbolic, has given no thought to his body or his flesh. And, apart from the fact that man needs to give his thoughts to himself, he might have had some trouble in saying what constitutes the particularity of the female sexual world: a different energy, a different morphology, a special relation to mucus and to the threshold that goes from inside to...
topography
A Map of Love: your best matches by state Your Worst States 1. West Virginia 2. Oklahoma 3. Arkansas 4. Alabama 5. Mississippi Your Best States 1. Massachusetts 2. Vermont 3. Oregon 4. Washington 5. New York
A Map of Love: your best matches by country Your Worst Countries 1. Indonesia 2. Philippines 3. Malaysia 4. Singapore 5. Lithuania Your Best...
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““180. Es giebt eine Unschuld in der Lüge, welche das Zeichen des guten...”
– Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Böse
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“And dimly she realized one of the great laws of the human soul: that when the...”
– Lady Chatterly’s Lover again — Lawrence avec Freud, as it were. I am amused by the fact that he uses the word crisis for orgasm (although perhaps it was in the pre-birth-control days)
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“But she was. A strange, weary yearning, a dissatisfaction had started in her....”
– Lawrence, Lady Chatterly’s Lover
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NYMag finally figures out what the flat white is.... →
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“Unter den Sohlen schiebt sich hin die Einsamkeit des Feldweges durch den...”
– Heidegger, Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes (in reference to Van Gogh’s “Pair of Shoes” http://www.museenkoeln.de/homepage/img_bdw/hi/2009_37.jpg)
Looking for a good translation; if not, I’ll make my own once this damn midterm is past. Bar none one of the most breath-taking...
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“The ‘I’ is at it were the crucible and fire which consumes the loose plurality...”
– Hegel, Wissenschaft der Logik.
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Republican Primary Advice
During primary season, it can be tough to decide whom you wish to nominate for president of the United States. Here are some simple ways to decide which candidate is right for you:
Don’t vote for anyone who can’t make free throws, because it could come down to free throws.
If you have more than four Ron Paul bumper stickers on your car, you should really consider voting for Ron Paul.
A...
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“We’re delighted to hear that Rep. Fleming is a regular reader of America’s...”
– The Onion editor Joe Randazzo • In response to the Republican Congressman who mistook an Onion article for the real thing. source (via • follow) I think my favorite is that he posted this on his facebook and someone wrote “You idiot, how did you get elected?”
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Ontology of etymology
i wish agamben had been hit by that laundry van and not barthes.
“laundry van, derived from the greek laundros, signifies etymologically the juridical origin of the laundry service…”
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kerygma
:the apostolic proclamation of salvation through Jesus Christ
Dropped by Derrida in the différance essay. Kind of an intriguing word.
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“It is true that there is not enough beauty in the world.
It is also true that I...”
– Louise Glueck, Averno.
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“Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go...”
– Frost, Reluctance http://www.bartleby.com/117/32.html