Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-05

  • What’s the first half of the word “painting”? Pain. #
  • “IMMEDIATELY create a strong suction to draw the plastic material up into the roof of the mouth and onto the sides of the teeth.” #
  • Will the new room work? Is it a cave? Why the “keep this door closed during class” sign? I want to see in! #
  • “the beneficient play of criticism” #
  • “(like the sight of the forest of the adage, which fails for the presence of the trees)” #
  • It was like not knowing. It was like not knowing and not knowing that you didn’t know. That’s what it was like. #
  • All fear is in the future. #
  • The only breaks I had today were to eat. I say that like the day is over. Now to read more! #
  • “Avoiding Germans, they were delivering themselves into rural silences ever more profound. They ate snow.” #
  • I really like everyone in the class I’m teaching! They, however, are still unsure about me. #
  • @LairdHunt Reading Slaughterhouse 5 this morning, Vonnegut used the word “radium” twice. Both times about a watch face. in reply to LairdHunt #
  • Dear Matmos, Your album “The Civil War” is making me very happy at the moment. Thank you. #
  • Representation imitated?! Mr. James, could you please complicate that further? #
  • Helped Dani buy a new computer. Will now help her set it up. #
  • Pushing fattening, but tasty, but fattening food into my body, drinking drinking drinking coffee, and reading David Wirthlin’s work. #
  • @LairdHunt Is the bowler cocked down over his eyebrows? in reply to LairdHunt #
  • Another poorly attended grad reading. Not even the people who asked that they no longer be on Friday. #

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One Response to Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-05

  1. Dina says:

    “All fear is in the future.” Amen, brother.

    “Reading Slaughterhouse 5 this morning, Vonnegut used the word “radium” twice. Both times about a watch face.” Look at this:

    http://www.rerowland.com/dial_painters.htm

    and this

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls

    There was a radium dial plant in Ottawa, IL, and people are still being diagnosed with cancer there, allegedly because radium dial did not properly dispose of the radium.

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