September 2010
7 posts
erinbird:
I’m really happy how this turned out....
August 2010
23 posts
You can sleep in my bed for ever
Please, please let me know if you / anyone needs a place in Chicago. I’ve been living with this lovely subletter named Aldo the past few months, and he wants to stay on here, but is having trouble finding a roomie.
My place here, if you haven’t seen it, is really a great deal. Inexpensive, spacious, on a tree-lined street in Andersonville/Edgewater, right by the train. I’ve...
“I liek my teacher and I liek to eet peezza.”
– Ghada, the 6-year-old daughter of the family I’ve been tutoring. A lady of simple tastes! I’m going to miss all of them so much.
What a friend we have in Jesus
Dinner with Amy tonight at Lulu’s, where my most favorite baker Jesus works his night job. I hadn’t seen him in a couple of months since I quit the bakery, and he gave me one of those manly-friends-hugs (shake hands while patting the other person gruffly on the back). As we finished our dinner, our friend Isaac brought over the MOST RIDICULOUS BROWNIE SUNDAE: coconut ice cream on top,...
from The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk
ofamplehills:
Trying to forget everything, as soon as I awoke I’d write down those dreams in which action and meaning were one, taking great pains to make my style poetic: I dreamt…our shadows were not extinguished with the setting of the sun, but took on a life of their own, mastering a thousand little things that we should have mastered while we slept peacefully in our clean, cool beds…
Yes, I lived. The State hung me up by the feet, I saw St. Petersburg’s daughters, swans, I learned the grammar of gulls’ array and found myself for good down Pushkin Street, while memory sat in the corner, erasing me with a sponge.
I’ve made mistakes, yes: in bed I compared government to my girlfriend. Government! An arrogant barber’s hand shaving off the skin. All of us dancing...
Unity with all life
This is from The Power of Myth, the interview with Joseph Campbell, and really just made my day incredible. The section is quoted to a greater extent here, but you can also check out the interview’s transcript in book form, or watch a recording.
One day, two policemen were driving up the Pali road when they saw, just beyond the railing that keeps the cars from rolling over, a young man...
July 2010
22 posts
My brother's reaction to Donne's Holy Sonnet xiv...
Joshua: ew
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Oh em gee. Wounds of Jesus = Vaginas.
“And then at once she was filled with love and inestimable satiety, which, although it satiated, generated at the same time inestimable hunger, so that all her members were unstrung and her soul languished and desired to fly away. And she wished neither to see nor to feel any creature. And she did not speak and did not know whether she could speak, but within she spoke, clamoring that God...
Finally!: "The Book of Science and Music"
Late Renaissance music from Istanbul streaming here via Millennium of Music. I heard this on the radio in the spring, and I’m SO EXCITED it’s finally up online. Seriously check this out, very beautiful, intricate music.
from Another Life, by Derek Walcott
And which of them in time would be betrayed
was never questioned by that poetry
which breathed within the evening naturally,
but by the noble treachery of art
that looks for fear when it is least afraid,
that coldly takes the pulse-beat of the heart
in happiness; that praised its need to die
to the bright candour of the evening sky,
that preferred love to immortality;
so every step increased that...
