Sawyer Paul's Blog, page 129
March 10, 2012
"I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when..."
"I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy. I believe that loss and emptiness and confusion often give way to new fullness and wisdom."
- Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet (via thresca)
- Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet (via thresca)
I've renamed the blog "The Mendaciloquent:...
I've renamed the blog "The Mendaciloquent: Ultrafidian synecdoche".
Because naming a blog after your own name is boring. I was a bore. I'm going to try to be less so.
Original print, 2012.
"Erotica is using a feather,...
Original print, 2012.
"Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken." —Isabel Allende
"When you see the loser-figure in a novel, what you are seeing is a complicated bargain that goes..."
"When you see the loser-figure in a novel, what you are seeing is a complicated bargain that goes something like this: yes, it is kind of immature and boorish to be thinking about sex all the time and ogling and objectifying women, but this is what we men sometimes do and we have to write about it. We fervently promise, however, to avoid the mistake of the late Updike novels: we will always, always, call our characters out when they're being self-absorbed jerks and louts. We will make them comically pathetic, and punish them for their infractions a priori by making them undesirable to women, thus anticipating what we imagine will be your judgments, female reader. Then you and I, female reader, can share a laugh at the characters' expense, and this will bring us closer together and forestall the dreaded possibility of your leaving me."
- Elaine Blair, "Great American Losers" (via millionsmillions)
- Elaine Blair, "Great American Losers" (via millionsmillions)
March 9, 2012
Currently watching Out of the Past.
Jeff Bailey: That's...
Currently watching Out of the Past.
: There's a way to lose more slowly.
Ain't that the truth.
The original iSight camera. Posting because the new iPad has one...
The original iSight camera. Posting because the new iPad has one of these crammed in there.
