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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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Well, since I do not live with the threat of a reformation camp, that excludes the "dog-collar" variety.
I am ashamed to say that the second type, with its pretensions and exclusiveness is most likely the case. The chauffeur notwithstanding...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3K_HMl9zvA
"תָּעִינוּ תִּעְתָּעְנוּ" (taw'inu, titawnu) are usually translated as: "We went astray, We led others astray."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confession_(Judaism)#/media/File:Ashsmnu-sins-pt1.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confession_(Judaism)#/media/File:Ashamnu_sins_pt_II.jpg
The composite sins that consume a life did not occur to me too late. I have time to rectify things in with you, with my brother's children, with my professional life.
In the spring and summer, I feel exhausted late afternoon when I am off, and then I awake with my second wind to work into the evening. Twelve and thirteen hours of daylight (excluding the days I work, which is like being submerged in a sub without diurnal cues) are more difficult for me than the short days of fall and winter.
https://www.sefaria.org/Psalms.63?lang=bi&with=Midrash%20Tehillim&lang2=bi
We walked Atticus on the loop around Longview past the surgeon's house; the one that works with me. We pretend to not know each other; although, she was surprised thinking this three-year-old is mine. We saw the hellebores revived by the rain. I found a Sholom Aleichem collection of short stories with Chagall on the cover in a Little Library.
I will get this, sometime:
https://www.jewishlives.org/books/reilly
Sidney Reilly was the British spy fictionalized by Ian Fleming as 007 James Bond. Ayn Rand, Hyman Rickover and Stanley Kubrick to follow, perhaps.
I have a facsimile of the ornithologist, James Bond, whose Birds of the West Indies (1936) captivated Ian Fleming while staying in his estate, Goldeneye, Jamaica. Ann Fleming had a career of marriages and affairs of which Ian Fleming was the official third in line. I sometimes think that his wife's subterfuges drove the author to settle the score with his flying dutchman character, James Bond, who beds a lot of women.
Lucian Freud painted her portraits when she was young and not so young.
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw71742/Lucian-Freud-Anne-Geraldine-Fleming
https://www.twibchicago.com/p/the-real-james-bond-was-a-legendary
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