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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.
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Memphis, Tennessee, c.1970. Photograph by William Eggleston
(Copyright The Eggleston Artistic Trust. Courtesy Cheim & Read, New York
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0007:part=4:chapter=41
a vision
we are in the clubhouse
3rd race, 83 degrees in June,
they have just sent in a 40-to-1 shot
in a maiden race,
the tote has clicked 3 or 4 times,
the old general feeling of futility
has arrived early
and then a girl walks by
to the window to make a bet
her skirt is slit
almost to the waist
and as she walks
this
most beautiful leg
is exposed
it sneaks out as she walks
flashes and vanishes.
every male in the clubhouse
watches that leg.
the girl is with a woman
who looks like her mother
and her mother keeps close
to the side of the skirt
that is slit,
trying to block our view.
the girl makes her bet
turns and now the leg is on
the other side
along with her mother.
the girl disappears down an
aisle to her seat
as all around us
there is a rising,
silent applause.
then the applause stops
and like forsaken children
we go back to our
Racing Forms.
from Charles Bukowski's Come on In! (2006)
Mon Taxi Driver --Alizée
Éteint le moteur
Laisse le compteur
Que les aiguilles jouent les anguilles
Laissons les voleurs
Voler nos douleurs
Laissons rouler ce qui prient
Laisse les menteurs
Nier la chaleur
La mècanique au coeur des filles
Feu vert mon over
Goutte la saveur
Sous mon pull-over
Si sexy mon taxi driver
C'est accidentel
C'est arrêt du cœur
Tarif féerique
Sons périphériques
La rue meurt de tant de fureur
Métal et plastique
La fille élastique
Nous fait danser de vos bonheurs
Feu vert mon lover
Goutte la saveur
Sous mon pull-over
Fais moi une faveur mon lover
C'est providentiel
Ce fut jamais vert
Si sexy mon taxi driver
Ma petite musique (whispering)
Me rend électrique (whispering)
Si sexy mon taxi driver
Langueur et saveur
Rêveur for ever
Si sexy mon taxi driver,
C'est accidentel
C'est arrêt du coeur
Feu vert mon lover
Goutte la saveur
Sous mon pull-over
Fais moi une faveur mon lover,
C'est providentiel,
Ce fut jamais vert
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jOIAi2XwuWo
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https://www.torah-box.net/torah-pdf/neviim/malachi/3.html
Thank you. Exercise 91.
The Greek is from Thucycides's History of the Peloponnesian War (405 B.C.E.). I remember copying it from a Greek Grammar.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Book_of_Haftarot_for_Shabbat_Festivals_a/QZD9gR9L1CoC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=haftarah%20for%20toldot&pg=PA82&printsec=frontcover
https://www.sefaria.org/Mishneh_Torah%2C_Prayer_and_the_Priestly_Blessing.12.1?lang=bi
"While the Temple was off limits for many Jews and sacrifices the preserve of the priests, the synagogue expected of each Jew to approach God individually and directly.The primacy of the Torah required literacy and learning of everyone. Henceforth, leadership would be determined by study rather than birth.
Education is Essential
But these advantages came at a price. The effects of Torah worked only as long as people could read it. If its language became as impenetrable as hieroglyphics, it risked turning the synagogue into a museum and its rabbis into intermediaries. Serious education and lifelong study are what vivify inert letters into life giving water. The greatest danger toJudaism has always been illiteracy, which is why the Rabbis insisted that 'The world itself rests on the breath of children in school.' (Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 119b)"
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/torah-like-water/
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