Monthly Archives: July 2009

4 of clubs

The Khazars pray by weeping, for tears are a part of God, by virtue of always having a bit of salt at the bottom, just as shells hold pearls. Sometimes women take a handkerchief and fold it until it can … Continue reading

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-25

king of clubs: the end of Modernism and still not enough time never enough time (perhaps that sums Modernism up?) # that should have been the king of spades. # 3 of clubs. # 8 of clubs: PhD play date … Continue reading

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king of spades

Gentle ideas are pregnant with mountains of corpses. —Witold Gombrowicz, A Kind of Testament

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-18

Is the Montclair Rec Center the perfect or perfectly wrong place to read Waiting for Godot? # @LairdHunt What do the worms in the Strand look like? in reply to LairdHunt # Managed to read half of Lucky's tirade aloud … Continue reading

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3 of hearts

Comps Deathmatch! (you say modernism; I say modernism) Franz Kafka vs. Rainer Maria Rilke   “The Truth About Sancho Panza” Without making any boast of it Sancho Panza succeeded in the course of years, by feeding him a great number … Continue reading

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Chicago Tribune, 1881

. . . who is accused of talking too freely about his neighbors’ wives and otherwise rendering himself objectionable . . .

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what are you doing here?

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2 of spades

And they went further and further from her, being attached to her by a thin thread (since they had lunched with her) which would stretch and stretch, get thinner and thinner as they walked across London; as if one’s friends … Continue reading

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I saw a teenager wearing an “Unknown Pleasures” t-shirt just the other day

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-11

One of the cats disappeared for a while today. I was the kind of frantic that looks calm. # Queen of diamonds: More Modernism # 10 of clubs: I'm reading poetry & I don't understand (it). I just looked up … Continue reading

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