Reading The Iliad
Here is a short line:
the god spread deadly plague throughout the camp,
so that the common troops began to die,
In 16 words a story is told.
Texas & VPNs
From the if Houston based artist Ganzeer’s blog.
Apparently, there are websites you can't access from Texas anymore. I remember how the use of VPNs became quite wise in Egypt towards the tail end of the half-revolution, certainly becoming a thing amongst more tech-saavy folk. Never would
Thursday 4/18 | Delusion
In There are Four Discourses, Lacan says that Freud thought:
That all is but a dream and that everyone (if one can say such a thing), that everyone is mad, that is, delusional.
In the novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan writes:
one key ingredient of so-called
The mind you want to live with
On this episode of The Ezra Klein Show (Apple Podcasts, NYTimes). Marilynn Robinson says:
You will have to live with your mind every day of your life, so make sure you have a mind you want to live with.
Simple, but true. I also think the same logic applies to
Good Text in Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
I'm reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. I'm enjoying it a lot. Here are some bits from the text that I like:
“Always remember, mine Sadie: life is very long, unless it is not.” Sadie knew this to be a tautology, but it
Percival Everett & Subjective Meaning
From a New Yorker profile of Percival Everett (who I had never heard of before reading the profile).
Everett is American literature’s philosopher king—and its sharpest satirist. The significant insignificance of language has long been a preoccupation of his fiction, which plumbs the failures of storytelling to capture
Reading, research, & procrastination
From the most recent this wonderful post on disquiet:
Reading is a form of writing procrastination that sort of doubles as research.
Yeah.