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"while I was walking, the sea had been roaring, and the roar had lured me out to see what was roaring: it was the sea roaring." — Apr 01, 2013 06:40pm
"while I was walking, the sea had been roaring, and the roar had lured me out to see what was roaring: it was the sea roaring." — Apr 01, 2013 06:40pm
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"It is fair to say that every publicly accepted idea, every received convention, is stupid, since it has appealed to the majority (Chamfort)" — Feb 22, 2013 01:29pm
"It is fair to say that every publicly accepted idea, every received convention, is stupid, since it has appealed to the majority (Chamfort)" — Feb 22, 2013 01:29pm
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"The stupidity of most people being a plain datum of experience, she was too logical to desire their praise in any matter of the reason." — Feb 05, 2013 06:42am
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“So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.”
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"Cuban writer José Lezama Lima has been praised to the high heavens by Julio Cortazar in long essay, where he basically says Lima writes like nobody el...more
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“How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured servitude, inflict compulsion and blows—this at least produces a connection, fury and a pounding heart, and these too constitute a form of relationship. But to cower in elegant homes behind golden garden gates, fearful lest the breath of warm humankind touch you, unable to indulge in extravagances for fear they might be glimpsed by the embittered oppressed, to oppress and yet lack the courage to show yourself as an oppressor, even to fear the ones you are oppressing, feeling ill at ease in your own wealth and begrudging others their ease, to resort to disagreeable weapons that require neither true audacity nor manly courage, to have money, but only money, without splendor: That’s what things look like in our cities at present”
― Robert Walser, The Tanners
― Robert Walser, The Tanners
“In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small). By reading any text of popular science we quickly regain the sense of the absurd, but this time it is a sentiment that can be held in our hands, born of tangible, demonstrable, almost consoling things. We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.”
― Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
― Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
“So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.”
― Flannery O'Connor
― Flannery O'Connor
“Imagine the marvels we would experience if we believed in the things in which we don't believe.”
― Luis Fernando Verissimo, Borges and the Eternal Orangutans
― Luis Fernando Verissimo, Borges and the Eternal Orangutans
How He Got His Red Coat (Poetry)
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updated Jul 05, 2011 05:19pm
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poem, previously published in the Sonora Review
Tiny Stories About Sons (Poetry)
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updated Feb 21, 2011 05:12pm
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The last poem series in my manuscript 'The Sea is White'. Previously published in Little Red Leaves http://littleredleaves.com/
Anne Carson's Plainwater: A Review (Literature & Fiction)
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updated Mar 29, 2010 04:36pm
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A creative-review. First published in Can We Have Our Ball Back?
Revelations (Poetry)
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updated Dec 12, 2008 11:16am
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Early poem. Originally published in the Indiana Review
Negatives (Poetry)
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updated Dec 12, 2008 11:16am
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Early poem. First published in the Sonora Review
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