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Monthly Archives: August 2009
prose and why
The romantic novel can manifest the continuity of forms of the poetic absolute—and it can give individuality to this absolute—because it has discovered the absolutely dissolving power of prose. Prose signified, for the romantics, the potential for indefinite encompassment that … Continue reading
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"At home, with father and mother, the whole house smelled of tact." # Institute Benjamenta by the Bros. Quay is too imbued with their own concerns to be a good or even interesting adaptation of Walser. # 7 of clubs: … Continue reading
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a playing card from days ago . . .
Where should I keep a heart? I have forgotten that I have one. Certainly it is sad, but how should I find it proper to feel sorrow? One feels sorrow only when one has lost money, or when one’s new … Continue reading
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-22
Back from the Dismal River. NE has never been this kind of beautiful. # Just saw Visioneers. Please thank @galifianakisz because the movie is really good. Now excuse me while I explode. # Friday, 08/14: king of hearts. #reading # … Continue reading
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9 of clubs
Einige von denen, die derart hinaussprangen, hatten feurige Flügel, ihre Köpfe brannten oder ihre Hände, und sie sahen wie merkwürdige Vögel aus, die schreien aber nicht fliegen konnten. —Robert Walser, “Theaterbrand” (Some who jumped had fiery wings, their heads burned, … Continue reading
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-15
Bailed alfalfa in rows under bluffs under clouds. Everything is gold and green and gray. # 10 of spades: catching up on note typing and beginning Walser (hooray!). # This typing up of notes takes far too long. #fb # … Continue reading
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-08
king of diamonds: dictopedia! Adams! Bolaño! #reading # 8 of diamonds: @Hodgman quickly, some secondary sources, typing notes and courting carpal-tunnel . . . #reading # crossed three off the list, but still feel as though I've accomplished little today–must … Continue reading
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10 of hearts: footnote of the day (simply for the last two words)
from Fiction and Diction, chapter 3: “Fictional Narrative, Factual Narrative” by Gérard Genette: 25Jorge Luis Borges, “Epilogo,” in Obras completas (Buenos Aires: Emece, 1974), 1143. The technique, of which Borges’s text is surely not the earliest illustration, has been used … Continue reading
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-01
Hiway 40 through CO to UT, though longer than taking I-70 or 80, is well worth it. # 4 of clubs: the dictionaries are getting stranger. # saw a tattoo in a bakery in SLC this morning which simply read: … Continue reading
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