“researchy”
Writing at disquiet, Marc Weidenbaum says:
Often my non-fiction reading is more piecemeal and “researchy” than straight-forward reading.
Me too.
Reading
Stuff from the books & long-from articles I read.
Storms, Doom-Music, Anne Carson, Rage, Grief, & Castration
Yesterday was a very warm day. As I was wrapping up my work day, the sky filled with huge thunderheads that were filled with lightning. When the sun went down, the sky was like a strobe light. I stayed at my office because tornado sirens went off, and shortly after,
Patti Smith
I became very interested in Patti Smith and whatever she is up to when I picked up her book M Train (Amazon) when it first came out in 2016.
When I encountered this book, I had met the woman who is now my wife a little before this, and I
Anne Carson on why we should read classics today
Here is an excerpt From Anne Carson/Antiquity, a collection edited by Laura Jansen.
This is Carson being quoted from an interview she gave, where she responds to the idea that teaching classics is relevant because it can teach us to recover something we need today.
I don’t feel
[Reading] Fassbinder Thousandsof Mirrors by Ian Penman
These are passages I highlighted in the book Fassbinder Thousandsof Mirrors by Ian Penman because I like them.
I don't recall ever feeling particularly English or British or Anglo Saxon or Celtic or whatever; this may have been partly the punkish, puckish spirit of the times, and partly
The more accelerated our life becomes…
The text below is from The Novel of the Future by Anaïs Nin.
The more accelerated our life becomes, the more we have to learn to select only the essential, to create our own repose and meditation islands within an uncluttered mental space.
I did not come across the text
Could anything become normal?
“Even time travel becomes normal when it’s your day job.”
A line from the novel Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds.
So far, this is one of the most interesting time travel novels I’ve ever read. (The most interesting time travel book I’ve ever read was The Time Traveler’