February 2012
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David Foster Wallace essay archive - Harper's... →
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I Wonder How Many People in This City
I wonder how many people in this city live in furnished rooms. Late at night when i look out at the buildings I swear I see a face in every window looking back at me and when I turn away I wonder how many go back to their desks and write this down.
— Leonard Cohen (from The Spice-Box of Earth)
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“I am not able, and do not want, completely to abandon the world view that I...”
– George Orwell, Why I Write
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Jonathan Franzen warns ebooks are corroding values... →
For serious readers, Franzen said, “a sense of permanence has always been part of the experience”. “Everything else in your life is fluid, but here is this text that doesn’t change,” he continued. “Will there still be readers 50 years from now who feel that way? Who have that hunger for something permanent and unalterable? I don’t have a crystal ball....
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things you cannot do on a...
#9818738919 :
Insert tiny pieces of paper between pages (on which you would have penciled “THIS”), and watch the spine of the book seem to grow thicker as more refugee scraps seek asylum between pages you have visited, and which you know you will revisit.
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synchronicity on 3 February 2012, 9AM
Reading the final paragraph in Part 1 of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay to The Beatles’ Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight.
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“The idea that “the deepest purpose of reading and writing fiction is to sustain...”
– “Why Write Novels at All?” by Garth Risk Hallberg, New York Times Magazine, January 13, 2012 (via postmodernnovice)
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January 2012
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“In 5-billion yrs the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember...”
– astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on Twitter five minutes ago. (via corcordium)
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Literally - the much misused word of the moment •... →
lol read the comments
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“Listen: I am ideally happy. My happiness is a kind of challenge. As I wander...”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via amylovesbooks)
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Lana Del Rey: Born to Die – review | the guardian →
“Isn’t there, though, a chance that Grant might be playing dead? Her album takes the “gangsta Nancy Sinatra” persona introduced last summer on “Video Games” and runs with it, often from the cops. If she is acting a little blank, it’s because that is just what a self-medicating 21st-century Stepford moll with an existential hangover would be doing. The...
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“Owning books has been only intermittently of importance to me. At one time,...”
– Claire Messud
(via Writers and Their Books: Inside the Personal Libraries of Famous Authors)
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“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden (via dontforgetyourefilthy)
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“Shops are places where your money makes the wealthy wealthier. Libraries are...”
– Caitlin Moran (via brokenheartedprince)
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