February 2012
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“Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It’s just that...”
– Mary Norton, The Borrowers (1953)
“Now I know what art is, and I don’t care.”
– Minor White (via amyjunesmells)
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“Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome...”
– John Berger (via shalitfryah)
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“Nothing saves me from monotony except these brief commentaries that I write...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
WatchThe Opposite of Jazz 4
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“Speech was given man so that he might hide his thoughts.”
– R. P. Malagrida
(No such person exists. This is the epigraph to chapter XXII of The Red and the Black, and my English edition notes that “most of the epigraphs… are imaginary, and so are their ascriptions.”)
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“Am I a born city dweller? It’s quite possible. I hardly ever get stunned...”
– Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten (1909; translated by Christopher Middleton, 1969)
J. M. Coetzee on Walser
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8tracks Mix: Frozen Music →
January 2012
26 posts
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“Half the devilment in this country caint be located on account of it’s...”
– Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth
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“It was an odd sensation to remember meaningless ideas. It was a bit like trying...”
– Charles Baxter, from his short story about Ezra Pound, “The Old Fascist in Retirement”
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WatchThe Genius of Augustus Pablo
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“I’m sorrier for those who dream about the probable, the legitimate, and...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
(the mix that goes with these lines)
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My collected 1Q84 tweets
The opening of #1Q84 is oddly reminiscent of Kazuo Ishiguro
30 Oct
Alice Munro > Haruki Murakami
11 Nov
Murakami writes about sex like someone who’s never had it.
12 Nov
Aristotle and Plato were as different as Mel Tormé and Bing Crosby. —Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
14 Nov
“Bad premonitions have a far higher accuracy rate than good ones.” —Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
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WatchThe Same But Different
December 2011
21 posts
WatchMore Where That Came From