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― Franz Kafka, Blue Octavo Notebooks
“I grieve to think that closeness requires some measure of distance as its preserver, if only as a safety measure, because it certainly seems as if connection, in a deeper sense, introduces a specter of estrangement; for to come into contact with someone is to change her—there is that certainty; it reminds me of a game that Robin told me about told me about one day after school, as we were walking down Annatta Road certainly twenty years ago: find a word, a familiar word, on a page, and then stare at it for a while, just let your eyes linger upon it; and soon enough, sometimes after no more than a few seconds, the word comes to look misspelled, or badly transcribed, or as if there are other things wrong with it; so I tried it once, with the most familiar word there is: love, first verb in the Latin primer, the word known to all men; and after no more than five seconds I could swear that it wasn't the same word I had always known: it looked odd, misshapen, and as if it had all kinds of different pronunciations, except the one I had always believed was correct, and had always used; and so there was dissonance...”
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“At night, when he is sure his father is sleeping, he sticks the phonograph needle in a rubber eraser and holds the eraser in his front teeth. Carefully, with his nose inches from the record, he sets the needle down. With a hiss and crackle, the music reverberates through the hollows of his mouth and throat without making a sound in the room. Ignoring the cramp in his neck, this is how he listens to his favorite records night after night.”
― Lydia Peelle, Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories
― Lydia Peelle, Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories
The Feeding Stage (Ongoing Bits) (Literature & Fiction)
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updated Feb 03, 2013 11:46pm
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Throwing out some bits 'n' pieces from a larger thing I'm working on. Testing out some of these bits, against better judgment, for some reason. I should probably just keep working on making the lengthier thing coherent, but here I am, making probably poor choices by emitting bits on a website that only a couple people, at best, will read. It'll be better in a cohered, larger form than in this bits 'n' pieces form. Hopefully. I guess I'm just looking for feedback, bit by bit.
My Favorite Books Published In 2012 (Literature & Fiction)
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updated Nov 28, 2012 03:59am
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Year of the Mayan Conspiracy Theory, Faves
Flashing Fragments (Literature & Fiction)
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updated Nov 18, 2012 04:47am
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Flash fiction.
The Kingdom of Ends (Fragments in Progress) (Literature & Fiction)
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updated Nov 16, 2012 06:40am
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Various short fiction things in various states of completion, highly incomplete for the most part. There's an overarching vision of them being loosely interconnected while also being distinct and standalone. Heady ideas about cause and effect, the paths in between, the end-goal meaning of things, etc, conveyed through (hopefully) entertaining stories about fairly relatable human things.
Exercises in Hint Fiction (Literature & Fiction)
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updated Jan 18, 2012 03:12pm
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Hint fiction is a structure that finds flash fiction to be too wordy and as such limits "stories" to 25 words or less. Discovered this amusing, writerly exercise and began rattling a few off over at Karen Brissette's review of a hint fiction anthology: http://tinyurl.com/7j3tl9s
The Extra Cool Group! (of people Michael is experimenting on)
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Write, right, rites, reads
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Discussions of authorship, attribution, social (networking) mores, authenticity, and sundry bookface complexities
this is kuert concrete
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if you work, or have worked at kuert concrete (thats south bend indiana, kids), come join in discussions. we can hate on northeast underlayments or di...more
Completists' Club
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