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| Content overabundance (too much information, with a deficiency of context to help you process it) is mostly silent. It's something to be "solved" with discovery tools, or kind of a personal challenge, a manageable turbulence on the entertainment surf...more | |
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| What makes a great party is when death is not too far away. Or something like that. It's not a platitude, but more like an expression of a kind of hope, or moral willpower, that Gatsby presages and then juggles. We are waiting for Nick Carraway, oddl...more | |
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Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form
by Matthea Harvey (Goodreads Author)
read in April, 2013
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A myth of reading: retrieve the work from a marketplace, then engage it somewhere else (the languagesphere, time, memory, theory). This book left strong contrails of the market: how it was published, rather than how it made meaning. Some technical fe...more |
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| This novel avoids taking reality for granted - and without putting quotes around everything, either. It's scientific and emotional in the most sensitive ways. Topically, the plot ripples around the shifts and perceptions of the Doppler effect, but ap...more | |
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| I heard some of these poems read aloud. Afterward, or perhaps during, I no longer wanted to read poetry that wasn't what someone would actually say. The title poem is astonishing, but you can't open your mouth, because the poem has sketched the void...more | |
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| A self-anthropology through lenses (mirrors held by hands) that photograph hands and mirrors. The body as set of definitions and problems to be solved, but in the foreign language of shapes. A photograph always is about light, and what is hidden, too...more | |
“To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.”
― John Berger
― John Berger
“For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.”
― Adrienne Rich
― Adrienne Rich
“I drove all night, northeast, and once again I felt it was literature I had been confronting these past days, the archetypes of the dismal mystery, sons and daughters of the archetypes, images that could not be certain which of two confusions held less terror, their own or what their own might become if it ever faced the truth. I drove at insane speeds.”
― Don DeLillo, Americana
― Don DeLillo, Americana
“I think that's what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications will arise.”
― Misha Glouberman
― Misha Glouberman
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