November 2011
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“The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of...”
– Don DeLillo, ‘Human Moments in World War III’ in The Angel Esmeralda. New York: Scribner, 2011, pp. 43–4.
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“She slept awhile. I floated in the pool, feeling the uneasy suspense lift off...”
– Don DeLillo, ‘Creation’ in The Angel Esmeralda. New York: Scribner, 2011, p. 8.
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“Why had Shiva become a doctor? Why, to please his father, and why a...”
– Will Self, ‘Dr Mukti’ in Dr Mukti & Other Stories of Woe. London: Penguin, 2009, pp. 105–6.
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“In the prefatory remarks to her magisterial essay “Illness As...”
– Will Self, ‘The trouble with my blood’ in The Guardian
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“The ascetic treats life as a wrong path that he has to walk along backwards till...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘Third Essay’ in On the Genealogy of Morality (ed. K. Ansell-Pearson & trans. C. Diethe). Cambridge University Press: New York, 2010, p. 86.
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“In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writers offered the real thing;...”
– Haruki Murakami, Interview with the Paris Review
October 2011
13 posts
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The Baldy Bugler, Issue 1
Created with a 30-day trial version of InDesign that I certainly have no idea how to use, welcome to The Baldy Bugler, daily newspaper from the outback town of Baldy, known for its croquet and cult activity. Sample column below. $4.90.
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“Hubris today characterizes our whole attitude towards nature, our rape of nature...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘Third Essay’ in On the Genealogy of Morality (ed. K. Ansell-Pearson & trans. C. Diethe). Cambridge University Press: New York, 2010, p. 82.
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“The argument that Nietzsche could not have propounded a set of statements which...”
– Alisdair MacIntyre, ‘Genealogies and Subversions’ in Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality (ed. R. Schacht). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, p. 298.
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“So the genre of the academic treatise is, it may be conceded, the apparent genre...”
– Alisdair MacIntyre, ‘Genealogies and Subversions’ in Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality (ed. R. Schacht). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, p. 296
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“Which great philosopher, so far, has been married? Heraclitus, Plato, Descartes,...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘Third Essay’ in On the Genealogy of Morality (ed. K. Ansell-Pearson & trans. C. Diethe). Cambridge University Press: New York, 2010, p. 77.
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“I have to speak my mind in a case like this, which is embarrassing in many ways...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘Third Essay’ in On the Genealogy of Morality (ed. K. Ansell-Pearson & trans. C. Diethe). Cambridge University Press: New York, 2010, p. 71.
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“That the ascetic ideal has meant so much to man reveals a basic fact of human...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘Third Essay’ in On the Genealogy of Morality (ed. K. Ansell-Pearson & trans. C. Diethe). Cambridge University Press: New York, 2010, p. 68.
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“Interpretation reveals its complexity when we realise that a new force can only...”
– Gilles Deleuze, ‘The Tragic’ in Nietzsche and Philosophy (trans. H. Tomlinson). Athone Press: London, 1983, p. 5.
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“Genealogy means both the value of origin and the origin of values. Genealogy is...”
– Gilles Deleuze, ‘The Tragic’ in Nietzsche and Philosophy (trans. H. Tomlinson). Athone Press: London, 1983, pp. 2–3.
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“It is Ulysses that approaches from the east,
The interminable adventurer? The...”
– Wallace Stevens, ‘The World as Meditation’
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“In the Wyclif version [2 Timothy 3:16] is rendered: ‘All scripture is...”
– Gordon Campbell, Bible: The Story of the King James Version. Oxford University Press: New York, 2011, p. 63.
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“Apart from anything else, the higher up the building he climbed, the worse the...”
– J.G. Ballard, High-Rise. Fourth Estate: London, 2011, p. 114.
September 2011
4 posts
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“What is found at the historical beginning of things is not the inviolable...”
– Michel Foucault, ‘Nietzsche, Genealogy, History’ in Language, Counter-Memory, Practice (ed. D.F. Bouchard). Cornell University Press: New York, 1980, p. 142.
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“It is impossible to dissociate the question of art, style and truth from the...”
– Jacques Derrida, Spurs: Nietzsche’s styles (trans. B. Harlow). Venice: Corbo e Fiore Editori, 1976, p. 59.
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“One the one hand (and in a way which will have to be qualified) Nietzsche...”
– Jacques Derrida, Spurs: Nietzsche’s styles (trans. B. Harlow). Venice: Corbo e Fiore Editori, 1976, p. 43.
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“For us in the contemporary university the nineteenth-century lecture is a genre...”
– Alisdair MacIntyre, ‘Genealogies and Subversions’ in Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality (ed. R. Schacht). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, p. 285.
August 2011
2 posts
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“Do you suppose perchance that these little Greek free cities, which from rage...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power (trans. W. Kaufmann & R.J. Hollingdale). New York: Vintage, 1968, p. 429.
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“For our part, we will not make a long speech no one will believe — full of fine...”
– Thucydides on Justice, Power and Human Nature (ed. P. Woodruff), 1993. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1993, pp. 89 & 103.
July 2011
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June 2011
7 posts
Welcome to Ghostface Villa →
My new Tumblr documenting coffee drinking in Sydney, more to come!
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“It was already evening, and, in the twilight, a beautiful tangerine light had...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, ‘The Doorbell’ in Terra Incognitia. London: Penguin, 2011, p. 55.
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INTERVIEWER: I’ve heard that when the third Civil War volume was finished and you turned it in, it went straight to typesetting without being copyedited.
FOOTE: So did volume two. I had a funny experience with copy readers back at the outset. They worship reference books and dictionaries and all that ticky kind of thing. We had a sure-enough expert for volume one. He complained that I was using the phrase “by ordinary” instead of ordinarily. He said, That’s incorrect. You shouldn’t do that. I said, No, I’ve heard that and used it all my life. He said, That doesn’t keep it from being wrong. I said, “Well, let’s look.” I opened the Webster’s unabridged and went to ordinary. Under it, it said, “By ordinary—Shelby Foote.” That convinced him.
INTERVIEWER: So he didn’t try to change anything after that?
FOOTE: No. Random House stopped using him after that.
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Links: Duke Nukem Never, A Life in Porn, Liberty...
Hey Tumblrettes, this is stuff I read today, enjoy or don’t enjoy.
Learn to Let Go: How Success Killed Duke Nukem Clive Thompson, Wired
A look at the development team—or particularly its fraught leader George Broussard—behind the famed Duke Nukem Forever up until it broke down and gave up in 2009. Curious how the great freedom available to Broussard, of money, time, resources, undid him...
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“Meanwhile delirious visions, taking advantage of the general confusion, were...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, ‘Terra Incognitia’. London: Penguin, 2011, pp. 10-11.
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“The woods were gradually thinning. I was tormented by strange hallucinations. I...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, ‘Terra Incognita’. London: Penguin, 2011, p. 4.
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“‘When you are learning a new language, the first thing you learn is the...”
– Diego Marani, New Finnish Grammar (trans. J. Landry). London: Dedalus, 2011, p. 56.
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“The adult industry is vulgar. Would anyone disagree? One of the AVN...”
– David Foster Wallace, ‘Big Red Son’ in Consider the Lobster and Other Essays. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005, pp. 7-8.
April 2011
7 posts
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“How to show your advanced age: punctuate your hip youth lingo with more than one...”
– Roger Ebert reviewing Atlas Shrugged the movie.
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“In 1993’s “Pink Cookies in a Plastic Bag,” LL Cool J delivered...”
– Adam Bradley, ‘Wordplay’ in Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop. New York: Basic Civitas, 2009, pp. 103-4.
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“That’s the part of hip-hop that’s missing,” says Pusha T, one-half of the...”
– Adam Bradley, ‘Wordplay’ in Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop. New York: Basic Civitas, 2009, p. 91.
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“Wreak havoc, beep beep it’s mad traffic
Sleek and lavish people speaking...”
– MF DOOM, ‘Strange Ways’ on Madvillainy (Madvillain) 2004.
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“Camouflage chameleon, niggas scaling your building
No time to grab the gun,...”
– RZA, ‘4th Chamber’ on Liquid Swords (GZA) 1995.
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“Orpheus plays the new Radiohead album:
There was a hill, and on the hill a...”
– Ovid, ‘Book 10: Orpheus & Eurydice’ in Metamorphoses (trans. S. Lombardo). Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2010, pp. 269-70.
March 2011
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“What kind of art is Beckett’s? It completely ignores the traditional...”
– The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classical Guide to World Literature (eds. C. Fadiman & J. S. Major). New York: HarperPerennial, 1999, p. 282.
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CAN WE EVEN BE FRIENDS ANYMORE (POEMS ON ALERT)
ghostorballoon:
IN 1956 (I think, sometime between ‘56 and ‘65, almost definitely on the earlier side of that (edit: 1957)) Jack Spicer taught a class at San Francisco State college called “Poetry as Magic.” Registration for this course involved filling out a small questionnaire, which I’m pretty much adopting as my litmus test for the value of a human being.
“POETRY AS MAGIC” WORKSHOP
This...
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“Sharp as an arrow Orpheus
Points his music downward.
Hell is there
At the...”
– Jack Spicer, ‘Orfeo’ in My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (eds. P. Gizzi & K. Killian). Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2008, p. 172.
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“A woman watches the sunrise in her martini,
And drinks—and drinks darkness....”
– Frederick Seidel, ‘Descent into the Underworld’ in Poems: 1959-2009. New York: Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2009, p. 427.
February 2011
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crepuscular
crepuscular, adj.
1 of or relating to twilight
1998 Don DeLillo Underworld p. 383 She loved the washed blue light of the film, a kind of crepuscular light, a tunnel light that suggested an unreliable reality
2 fig. resembling twilight. “Resembling or likened to the morning twilight as preceding the full light of day; characterized by (as yet) imperfect enlightenment.”
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“And this summer he was trying to put together financing for a documentary about...”
– Don DeLillo, Underworld. London: Picador, 1998, p. 378.
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tree
tree, v.
vt. To drive into or up a tree; to cause to take refuge in a tree, as a hunted animal, or a man pursued by a wild beast. Also fig. to put into a difficulty or ‘fix’.
1834 C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing xxxii. 266 It wasn’t long afore he tree’d a rakoon.
1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 250 Some small squirrel which has treed itself for scrutiny.
1859 H. Kingsley Recoll....
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“A long time ago, years ago, I read a book called The Cloud of Unknowing. Written...”
– Don DeLillo, Underworld. London: Picador, 1998, p. 295.
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Watchlazenby:
Here’s the first big documentary on David Foster Wallace since his suicide. Interviewed are: DFW (archived), Don DeLillo, Rick Moody, Mark Costello, Michael Pietsch, Bonnie Nadell and Amy Wallace.
Originally aired on Radio 3, February 6th, 2011. Runtime: 45:04.
This is really good, and not available in the US. So even as I choke on these words, please reblog the shit outta this.
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