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February 15, 2024
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Sheldon Moldoff!
February 13, 2024
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Books make great Valentine gifts!
“We know what gentlemen are,” put in the widow. “As well grasp a hedgehog as seek justice from one of them. A fistful of prickles is all you get.”
•Mika Waltari, The Adventurer (1948).
Fox knows many,
Hedgehog one
Solid trick.
•Archilochus, fragment (C7 BC)
I tell you, Madam, it was all a Trick,
He made the Giants first, and then he kill’d them;
As Fox-hunters bring Foxes to a Wood,
And then with Hounds they drive them out again.
•Henry Fielding, Tom Thumb (1730)...
February 8, 2024
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Happy early Valentine’s day!
The ultimate antiromantic novel! $2.99!
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Forte / Moldoff!
February 6, 2024
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These books will bring you joy!
Truth is the anagram of an anagram. Anagrams = ars magna.
•Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum (1988).
God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience.
•Melville, Moby-Dick (1851).
Is it but a world of trouble—
Sadness set to song?
Is its beauty but a bubble
Bound to break ere long?
Are its palaces and pleasures
Fantasies that fade?
And the glory of its treasures
Shadow o...
February 1, 2024
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Kirby/Brodsky!
January 30, 2024
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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
•Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathurstra (1883).
Along came the bishop, his robe a tatter:
Sleep and it won’t matter.
•Niedecker, For Paul: Six Alternative Sequences, Group Two (1951).
To me, even kind sleep is cruel.
•Nonnos, Dionysiaca (C5).
Night is always a giant, but this one was especially terrible.
•Nabokov, Transparent Things (1972).
Arouse thyself! How long more wilt thou slumber?
See thyself, full of marve...
January 25, 2024
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Russ Manning!
January 23, 2024
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William Kloman: There was a curious story in one of the news magazines recently about the exceptional instability of marriages around the space installations.
Stanley Kubrick: Because the machines are so sexy.
•“In 2001, Will Love Be a Seven-Letter Word?” NY Times 4.14.68.
The caress of the eye over the skin is so utterly, so extraordinarily gentle, and the sensation is so bizarre that it has something of a rooster’s horrible crowing.
•Georges Bataille, The Story of the Eye (1...
January 18, 2024
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Eisner/Feiffer!
January 16, 2024
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Our astronomers are interested only in stars we cannot see.
•Jules Verne, Paris in the Twentieth Century (1863/1994).
Many people wished Grettir a safe journey, but few a safe return.
•Grettis Saga (c. 1400).
He hiked the rucksack onto his shoulder and walked away through the woods, leaving her alone on the grass, not even pausing to look back.¶You never know just who might turn you into salt.
•Richard ...
