January 2011
167 posts
McNally Jackson Bookmongers: The Sex Thing, Or,... →
mcnallyjackson:
love affairs
love-connection
the thing
it
Why couldn’t a girl be queenly, and give the gift of herself?
the love-making and connection
this sex business
sexual love
the sex thing
A woman could take a man
this sex thing
the sexual intercourse
prolong the connection and achieve her…
“What do you do all day? All night?”
“Nothing.”
“You...”
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A short story by Marguerite Duras. Now can’t remember/ find which—help??
“I think a poem, when it works, is an action of the mind captured on a page, and...”
– Anne Carson (via theparisreview)
“That’s why we don’t wear habits anymore. Everyone would be all OH NO SOMEONE...”
– The nun who came to the Electric Literature reading. (And is, obviously, ahhhmazing!)
“grangerize \ GRYEN-juh-rahyz \ , verb;
1.
To add to the visual content of a...”
– Word of the Day | Dictionary.com
what an excellent word!
WatchCornel West, on the Colbert Report, calls himself a “militant for tenderness and an extremist for radical love.” I adore this: “tenderness is what love feels like in public; justice is what love looks like in public”. Pretty psyched about the (otherwise dem-soc heavy) Left Forum opening plenary now.
“In my mind all of this leads back to the same thing: the shame of eccentricity...”
– How my hippie parents turned me into a consumer - Real Families - Salon.com
“It is better to read Carlyle in your own study chair than to visit the...”
– Virginia Woolf on the value of writers’ houses. On our Roundtable blog, A.N. Devers recounts the history of literary pilgrimage in her new essay “House Hunters.” (via laphamsquarterly)
Confessions of an Opium-Seeker →
essayist:
BY NICK TOSCHES
I was born to smoke opium. Don’t get me wrong: I am against drugs, having long ago forsworn their use and embraced the spiritual path as set forth by The Celestine Prophecy and that guy with the big, shiny forehead. Drugs kill. Nonetheless, I was born to smoke opium. More precisely, I was born to smoke opium in an opium den…
“Last month, MacArthur wrote a column for the Providence Journal, subsequently...”
– Venerable Lefties at Harper’s Divided by Union — Daily Intel
Harper’s vs its newly-formed union; Harper’s vs the Internet…
“For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the...”
– Francoise Sagan (via theparisreview)
seedy: 36 Versions of The Internationale →
c-d:
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alistair hulett - the internationale.mp3 ani difranco & utah phillips - The Internationale.mp3 black - Die Internationale.mp3 Canciones revolucionarias - internationale.mp3 chinese - internationale.mp3 coro en chino - internationale.mp3 czech - Internationale.mp3 ddr lieder - Die…
“I want my books to have their own shelves,” you said, and that’s how I knew it...”
– David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary (via notwritenow)
