December 2012
“Avoid adjectives of scale.
Dandelion broth instead of duck soup.
Don’t even...”
– Dean Young, Handy Guide
“It is the phenomenon sometimes called “alienation from the self.” In its...”
– Joan Didion “On self-respect”
“Listen,
It does not matter what you say. As a woman, as a woman of color, as a...”
– via PersephoneMagazine
“Are we not all of us fanatics? I only say what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Loneliness in New York →
Loneliness can be a shameful hunger, a shell, a dangerous landscape of shadowy figures. But it is also a gift.
The bluest period I ever spent was in Manhattan’s East Village, not so long back. I lived on East 2nd Street, in an unreconstructed tenement building, and each morning I walked across Tompkins Square Park to get my coffee. When I arrived the trees were bare, and I dedicated those walks...
“Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities,...”
– Jim Carroll, Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries 1971-1973
3 tags
“I will have an undergraduate class, let’s say a young white male student,...”
– Gayatri Spivak, The Post-Colonial Critic, 1990
“Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreaks
“What can I hold you with?
I offer you lean streets, desperate sunsets, the
...”
– Jorge Luis Borges
2 tags
“Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the...”
– Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State, 1871; published 1882
