March 2012
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Old, but probably one of the better essays I've... →
February 2012
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“In winter, I’m a Buddhist,
and in summer, I’m a nudist”
– Joe Gould, one of the few times he was allowed to read poetry
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"'We're like the middle man's middle... →
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Move Under Ground, by Who Cares →
Here is the best sentence of the first page of what Wikipedia describes as “a horror novel by Nick Mamatas which combines the Beat style of Jack Kerouac with the cosmic horror of H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.”
“Those boozy latenight dinners with crazy soulless characters whose jaws clacked like mandibles when they laughed are what got to him in the end, I’m...
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“Why my wife owned a shotgun, I had no idea. Or ski masks. Neither of us had ever...”
– Haruki Murakami, “The Second Bakery Attack”
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“Some people used to tell this story as though it were an unhappy love affair,...”
– Olga Tokarczuk, “The Ugliest Woman in the World”
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“He lay there wondering what it must be like to be her, what it felt like from...”
– Olga Tokarczuk, “The Ugliest Woman in the World”
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“I said: “But there’s no way not to suffer—is there....”
– James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”
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“This was the last time I ever saw my mother alive. Just the same, this picture...”
– James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”
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“All this was carrying me some place I didn’t want to go. I certainly...”
– James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”
Vanity Fair: In 10 States, No Child Left Behind …... →
vanityfair:
The Associated Press reports that President Obama will soon announce that he has given permission to Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and Tennessee to abandon the contentious, George W. Bush–conceived No Child Left Behind education…
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Possible Ramifications of Reaching Lake Vostok →
1. unleash mighty Cthulhu
2. unleash Adam a la “Neon Genesis Evangelion”
3. unleash The Thing
I’m hoping for 2.
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“If the female gets the chance, she will eat him, beginning by biting his head...”
– Richard Dawkins describing the mating habits of praying mantises, The Selfish Gene
