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"[...]a vessel cleaving the dungeon of the waves[...]"
You're Love in the Time of Cholera!
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Like Odysseus in a work of Homer, you demonstrate undying loyalty by
sleeping with as many people as you possibly can. But in your heart you never give
consent! This creates a strange quandary of what love really means to you. On the
one hand, you've loved the same person your whole life, but on the other, your actions
barely speak to this fact. Whatever you do, stick to bottled water. The other stuff
could get you killed.
Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.
Never miss a word
You're Infinite Jest!
by David Foster Wallace
While you1 consider yourself2 to be clever,
there are those3 who think you're just full of yourself or, perhaps worse,
playing a joke4 on everyone around you, and yet you are pretty sure that
you really are that brilliant after all, since people would hardly take the time to
get to know you5 if they didn't care very deeply about what you had to
say to them, to wit, about their lives, their hopes, their dreams, their fears, their
drug habits, and of course what videos6 they prefer to watch, since,
after all, your impressive vocabulary and tendency to go on and on7 makes
you seem superior, able to educate them, and really drive a sense of something
ineffable into their measly little skulls while you are not above making a cheap
gag or really going after anyone or anything or telling them about incredible
futures involving tennis, geopolitics, and
1Meaning you personally, not someone like you or your own
personal daddy, for example.
2As well as you can see yourself, which, frankly, may not be that well.
3Though we wouldn't deign to be so peripatetic as to name them here, mind.
4Jokes, though not common in Victorian England, were known to originate
sometime in ancient history, perhaps as early as the time of Babylon, or even before.
It is thought that the history of the joke plays an integral role in the mindset of
the characters depicted here, though you may disagree at this point, in which case I
am facing quite the dilemma in relaying this narrative, no?
5It is rather time consuming, after all.
6Ha!
7and on and on and on...
Take the Book Quiz II
at the Blue Pyramid.
You're The Metamorphosis!
by Franz Kafka
Though you think you're in the midst of a dream, the fact of the
matter is that your life has become a nightmare. The nightmare at first seems
horrific to you, but you are slowly able to adjust to the facts of the matter
and settle down and make do with what you've been given. There are those that
would say you're pointless and absurd, but you're really just trying to
demonstrate that people can (and do) adapt to anything, no matter how absurd
it is. Not that this will really inspire them to change, because they probably
don't understand.
Take the Book Quiz II
at the Blue Pyramid.
About Me
- Σφιγξ
- possesses wholly unmerited academic pretensions; examines love as an entomologist; collects haunted dollshouses; notes the lunar phase as regularly as the temperature; peruses field guides; reads like a serial magazine subscriptionist; functions through coffee and "mood" music; draws to the very corners of the page; takes notes on unlined paper; reads poetry as prayer; observes textual authority with the incredulity of fiction; suppresses the smart-ass answer(s); adapts as well as anyone beseiged by her own bibelots; she is a sensation seeker in spite of all of this.
16 comments:
I visit your blog frequently, but must admit that I find it often difficult - for me - to comment! Now, when you have both Paul Klee and Jane Birkin there, I must say something! I really like both these artists!
Often, Jane has a song to match the mood I am in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb_Usp9nkhU
Nach dieser Sintflut
[After this deluge]
After this deluge
I wish to see the dove
saved,
nothing but the dove.
I would drown in this sea
if it did not fly away,
if it did not return with the leaf
in the final hour.
http://jacketmagazine.com/18/bachm.html
I would like to read her novels, eventually in German. The idea of reading so many translations is to see how I handled the texts after coming back to them years later.
I am with my niece this afternoon, and contemplating how to fit everything in; everything, without perpetuating old wounds.
I was not thinking of anyone else; but how to put everything into the container of the next card.
I was introduced to Talk Talk by someone, but I was not invoking anyone. It is a beautiful score, and I would have made the decision to buy the album on the basis of the album art.
Yes, I am returning in the final hour. I did not want to embarrass you, but I wanted you to know that you are the source and subject of my refinement. When I finally get past the beginning, the fruit of this year will surpass the last.
Exercise 43, and I am considering its composition irrespective of the card sequence (the time between is just too long) will incorporate Noguchi forms from the garden here, with SOM's black and white architecture, with some amber accents, all of which is consolidated by a torus of a black and white dog, your day sign.
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/SOM/beinecke08.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nichitecture/5709034915
http://www.samaelgnosis.net/imagenes/antropologia/aztecas/dias/itzcuintli.htm
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Itzcuintli.jpg
http://godzdogz.op.org/images/slides/Caleruega-dog.jpg
https://albumcoverhalloffame.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/james-marsh-talk-talk-interview/
I am a bit North from here, but I meant to mention that I saw one of these, like a flying zebra with a vermilion muleta, Sunday. I am not a birder, but I looked out the window, and its presence was very dramatic.
http://www.fayobserver.com/sports/columns/hal-broadfoot-spring-migration-offers-rare-glimpse-of-red-breasted/article_9cdec092-d646-51b0-955f-d3bcc86f5504.html
9 - Itzcuintli
Oursonner.
CHARLES BURCHFIELD October Outside (1963)
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bd/23/5c/bd235c3cdc3b72d3a35d87c2ae13a654.jpg
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nme.com/features/adam-curtis-cant-get-you-out-of-my-head-bbc-documentary-2880844%3futm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=adam-curtis-cant-get-you-out-of-my-head-bbc-documentary&
I like this series because it is unflattering to all social movements with innate bias multiplied into mass idiocy.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/first-recorded-evidence-of-yom-kippur-depicts-day-of-affliction-as-sectarian-struggle/
This period of upset happened because it hurt me, the rejection that would not go with me, somewhere. Either you do not trust me or you could not explain your absence to the people in your life or both.
Exercise 91.
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