Charlie Huston's Blog, page 77

And now, a Tumblr break for some Serbian poetry

And now, a Tumblr break for some Serbian poetry:

brucesterling:

Pismo

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by Bruce Sterling

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for Rasa Livada (1948-2007)

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Damp streets, a dark alley outside the garage,

How many poets can one city bury?

The full moon over Belgrade expects an eclipse.

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Gritty, dear old Beograd, she’s strewn with Xmas decorations,

Tourist-luring tinsel for the…

Is it wrong that this put me more in the holiday spirit than anything else that’s happened so far today?

Mr. Sterling, always worth the time.

Photo

natgeofound:Two girls sit in front of an apple display in the...

natgeofound:

Two girls sit in front of an apple display in the shape of a turkey in West Virginia, 1939.
Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart, National Geographic

"Just had someone in the IRC channel today who mined… 7500BTC….and then threw the hard drive..."

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Just had someone in the IRC channel today who mined… 7500BTC….

and then threw the hard drive away.

We encouraged him to take a trip to the landfill and see if he could find it, maybe hire someone(s) to help him. He said he’s going to make a few calls.

I felt so bad for him. That’s $6 million and counting.

[…] He went to the “recycling centre” and they showed him around. The hard drive, if it was there, would be buried under around 4 feet of mud and waste, in an area the size of a soccer field. T...

"For epilogue here, let’s append a passage from the Baroness Blixen’s Albondocani, a long..."

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For epilogue here, let’s append a passage from the Baroness Blixen’s Albondocani, a long series of connected tales still unfinished at the time of the author’s death in 1962. This excerpt is from “The Blank Page,” published in Last Tales (1957). An old woman who earns her living by storytelling is speaking:

“With my grandmother,” she said, “I went through a hard school. ‘Be loyal to the story,’ the old hag would say to me, ‘Be eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story.’ ‘Why must I be tha...

mares-nest-x:Illustrations

mares-nest-x:

Illustrations

The Glorious Boneyard: A Report From Our Starting Line

The Glorious Boneyard: A Report From Our Starting Line

mattfractionblog:arsanatomica:Inflating a set of cat...

mattfractionblog:

arsanatomica:

Inflating a set of cat lungs

Lungs are by most accounts mundane. Everybody has them, few give it much thought. But sequestered within darkness of the chest cavity, enveloping the fluttering heart, there’s a incredible wonder to this oddly inflatable organ.

Dissection is a destructive process. Rudely excised from membranous mooring and nourishing vessels, the deflated lungs appear little more than bloodied meat; amorphous and exposed…….until a breath of air unfurl...

"In the hope that some fourteen-year-old kid in Milwaukee reads Amnesia Moon and is ratified in his..."

“In the hope that some fourteen-year-old kid in Milwaukee reads Amnesia Moon and is ratified in his suspicion that the government is television, that George Bush is the star of a rotten soap opera. That’s all I have to offer, what Philip K. Dick had to offer me, solidarity. My politics are everywhere.”

- Jonathan Lethem,Paris Reviewinterview, speaking for my state of mind where Baker left off.

"Wars trivialize every small-scale concern you have, like saving newspapers or saving a train..."

“Wars trivialize every small-scale concern you have, like saving newspapers or saving a train station. They call into question ever minor joy. Why are you making that coffee shake after mowing the lawn? Why are you taking that picture of a scrolled leaf? Wars are bad for the novel, because suddenly all of our precious mundanity is justifiably marginalizable.”

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Nicholson Baker, in his 2011 interview with Paris Review,stepping in and summarizing my current state of mind regarding all of my wor...