February 2012
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“Poetry is nothing but a certain astonishment before the world and the means for...”
– Andre du Bouchet, 1954.
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“A stone thrown into a silent lake
is—the sound of your name.
The light click...”
– (via proustitute)
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THE AGE OF THE MOLE
Perhaps if my mother had been a better Catholic she would have kept me on track towards Confirmation, ignoring my tear-strewn face and heated opinions concerning the morality of abortion after she picked me up one day; as it were, she wasn’t and isn’t. Instead, she listened to my pleas and pulled me out of class, granting me a laptop for my thirteenth birthday that led to a very different kind...
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“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly...”
– Sylvia Plath, from a journal entry dated November 7, 1959.
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“Perhaps the link to pursue, then, is not the one between passion and truth, but between truth and death. Between being so knowing, and touching on the one thing that – as the cliché puts it – no one can ever know. Something untellable, but which has to be told, enters the frame when the subject of biography dies by her own hand, when death arrives too soon. And if that subject is a woman,...
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RE-TWEETING THE PRESIDENT →
A few brief thoughts on the phenomenon of the political twitter.
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“They became like people about to go out to the theater.”
– Mina Loy, from “Three Wishes.”
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WatchPonytail, “Late For School,” as performed in a Queens laundromat.
This looks like so much fun.
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and somewhere in a warm room
on a soft bed on white
sheets
a pretty young mother
is stroking her little child
sleep sleep sleep my little one
sleep my baby child
sleep sleep don’t listen
to the wind howling
the cars rustling
sleep tighter my little one
gather strength
you’ll need lots of strength
the working class needs brave strong tough fighters
there are difficult times ahead.
-...
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“You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, for they will come into being...”
– Arnold Schoenberg
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“I apologize to everything that I cannot be everywhere.
I apologize to everyone...”
– Wisława Szymborska, from “Under a Certain Little Star” (trans. by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire)