A Polysyndetonic Life

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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:23:15 -0400

"Nine to five is how to survive, I ain’t trying to survive I’m tryna live it to the limit..."

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:21:17 -0400

“Nine to five is how to survive, I ain’t trying to survive
I’m tryna live it to the limit and love it a lot”

- Sean Carter

thexxsoundboard: James Blake - Overgrown

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:37:55 -0400

thexxsoundboard:

James Blake - Overgrown

yen-yaw: good-universe: needlesslycrunk: Day made. If I need...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:52:29 -0400

yen-yaw:

good-universe:

needlesslycrunk:

Day made.

If I need a smile… I consult this pony.

I want this. So bad.

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:44:22 -0500

I want this. So bad.

nevver: Half full, half empty

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:40:52 -0500

nevver:

Half full, half empty

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Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:23:26 -0500

"At times, Chomsky can be maddening. He is not a particularly good listener, and he aims to win every..."

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:44:56 -0500

“At times, Chomsky can be maddening. He is not a particularly good listener, and he aims to win every argument, preferably by taking the most contrarian stance possible, like arguing that language evolved not for communication but for internal thought. The odder the arguments are, the more he seems to enjoy himself. A friend of mine was a student of Chomsky’s in the mid-seventies, and he recalls his strategy for meeting with Chomsky. Instead of the usual one-on-one meetings that most students have with their advisors, my friend would bring a classmate along. The two students would take turns debating Chomsky, one stepping in when the other ran out of things to say. Chomsky would win every argument (or at least never admit defeat), and the two would go home exhausted, but also elated. Each debate with Noam brought them a step closer to understanding the true nature of language and mind.”

- “Happy Birthday, Noam Chomsky” by Gary Marcus

Why aren’t all academic experiences like this?

stu-pidface: i could care less about the royal family. follow...

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:38:25 -0500

stu-pidface:

i could care less about the royal family.

follow this blog!

yen-yaw: Finished Reading:The Crying of Lot 49. Conclusion: a...

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:47:38 -0500

yen-yaw:

Finished Reading:The Crying of Lot 49.

Conclusion: a book worth reading twice.

Not for information’s sake, mind you. This is a book that plays off its fastidiousness. Pynchon is great at making a point through his characters and through scenes, to create something that comes off the page. His take on the postmodern actually works because of the absurdity and the references to that absurdity. You see where DFW gets his ideas. Because the conclusion of this book almost made me saw, “Aw.” In awe. You see how the human mind is bent sometimes on organizing as a chaotic manifest which otherwise doesn’t become anything, anything at all. Or maybe it becomes something seriously personal, perilously and endlessly dimensional for the mind.

But TCoL 49 is a book I have little qualms with. Pynchon is an endearingly intelligent individual. And it’s an honor to read such a succinct and round text. When I got to the ending, I smirked at the final sentence. Because it wasn’t clever. It was true to the story. And that’s all I can ask for.

nevver: “She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of...

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 20:45:04 -0500

nevver:

“She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.” — J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

nevver: Sorry

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:49:40 -0500

nevver:

Sorry

theparisreview: “Literature adds to reality, it does not simply...

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:40:35 -0500

theparisreview:

“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”

—Happy Birthday, C. S. Lewis

"If getting rich had been on my father’s agenda, he’d have had no trouble becoming the wealthiest man..."

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:27:52 -0500

“If getting rich had been on my father’s agenda, he’d have had no trouble becoming the wealthiest man in the village, of that I’m sure. But he was a dragon among men, and dragons have no interest in accumulating property.”

- “Bull” by Mo Yan

Republicans Blast Susan Rice for Misleading Public

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:29:59 -0500

Republicans Blast Susan Rice for Misleading Public:

newyorker:

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—A trio of Republican senators today blasted U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice for misleading the American public, which, in the words of Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC..), “has traditionally been our job.”

Oh my sweet Carolina/ What compels me to go

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:53:25 -0500

As I finish reading The Sound and the Fury, I find myself reflecting on my fraught relationship with the South, my birthplace, my antagonist, my home. For most of my life, I have forgone indulging in Southern traditions because of the blatant ignorance and bigotry encountered first hand. Southern Culture to me meant racism, selfishness, and disillusionment. Soon I will no longer live in the land I am tied to but have never acknowledged, and in lieu of feeling like a cultureless void to be transplanted in a far off country, I find myself realizing “Southern” is as much a part of my identity as my name. I do enjoy sweet tea, I do enjoy grits, and saying “Yes ma’am” or “No sir,” and collards, and the twang of a dobro, and southern folklore, and the feeling of orange clay caked into humidity drenched pores while napping under an old tree laden with Spanish Moss. Most importantly, I realize that enjoying those things doesn’t make me ignorant, doesn’t make me a bigot, and instead makes me infinitely aware of the duality of the South, being able to enjoy a culture and also acknowledge the injustice within it. As Fitzgerald puts it, “To hold two opposed ideas in the mind and still retain the ability to function.”

The goal of ones life should be to be at peace with its paradoxes and trials of humanity, and understanding the South is learning to be at peace with the human condition.

"(1) Neiman-Marcus Nihilism, declaimed via six-figure Uppies and their salon-tanned, morally vacant..."

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:12:00 -0500

“(1) Neiman-Marcus Nihilism, declaimed via six-figure Uppies and their salon-tanned, morally vacant offspring, none of whom seem to be able to make it from limo door to analyst’s couch without several grams of chemical encouragement;
(2) Catatonic Realism, a.k.a. Ultraminimalism, a.k.a. Bad Carver, in which suburbs are wastelands, adults automata, and narrators blank perceptual engines, intoning in run-on monosyllables the artificial ingredients of breakfast cereal and the new human non-soul;
(3) Workshop Hermeticism, fiction for which the highest praise involves the words “competent,” “finished,” “problem-free,” fiction over which Writing-Program preand proscriptions loom with the enclosing force of horizons: no character without Freudian trauma in accessible past, without near-diagnostic physical description; no image undissolved into regulation Updikean metaphor; no overture without a dramatized scene to “show” what’s “told”; no denouement prior to an epiphany whose approach can be charted by any Freitag on any Macintosh.”

- The boiling down of young fiction by David Foster Wallace in “Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young”

My co-Favorite, and this is why.

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:16:57 -0500

My co-Favorite, and this is why.

"In the end, both questions point to the same impulse, and the same spark of ambition: a desire to..."

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:12:21 -0500

“In the end, both questions point to the same impulse, and the same spark of ambition: a desire to make something defiantly big out of the little you are given.”

- “Little Strangers” by Nathan Heller, a review of Andrew Solomon’s “Far from the Tree”

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