May 2011
63 posts
“Blind George is a cat. And blind. He chases mice that aren’t there and...”
D H Lawrence
“This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. “
Put it in perspective.
Think about it. Our entire childhoods we are shown what the color (for instance) red is. “Red”. Red is just a concept though. Red itself is only as much as what it comprises. Stop signs are red. Red apples are red. Blood, after coming in contact with oxygen is red. Roses-red roses of course-are red. So I say to you, “stop sign” and you imagine a stop sign. And that stop...
Excerpt from "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov
“All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other’s soul and flesh; but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do. After one wild...
"God gave us memories so that we may have roses in...
Lately, I continue to revisit this memory that I have from when I was very young. I remember the dress I was wearing exactly because I hated it. It was too tight on my shoulders and black and white plaid with lace. But I had it on because I was at some sort of function with my parents. I’m assuming my brother and sister were there too but I can’t remember them. I only know the setting...
Personal Helicon
by: Seamus Heaney
for Michael Longley As a child, they could not keep me from wells And old pumps with buckets and windlasses. I loved the dark drop, the trapped sky, the smells Of waterweed, fungus and dank moss. One, in a brickyard, with a rotted board top. I savoured the rich crash when a bucket Plummeted down at the end of a rope. So deep you saw no reflection in it. A shallow one...
“Some people are learning to die and some people are yearning to fly.”
– Brett Dennan, When I Go
Things change and things stay the same.
Being home is like a time-warp. I have come back to the same people with the same issues and the same fucked-up ways of dealing with their issues. I don’t know when caring about your friends and being unconditionally involved in their lives became an anomaly, but that’s how I treat my friendships and it’s not as easy as just flicking a switch that someone’s hurt and...
“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via whiporwill)
MUST ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING TODAY.
I feel like I’m festering.
It might be impractical To seek out a new romance...
“Write drunk; edit sober.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“All you really have to do is forget you’re in the world.”
– White Denim, All you really have to do
Resisting the urge to title this with Vitamin C...
I am currently in Rochester, NY for my older brother’s graduation from the University of Rochester. There were two ceremonies today; one big one for the entire class in the morning and then a smaller one specifically for Ben’s major. Between the two of them I feel like I ran marathon (mostly because my entire extended family is together in one place trying to coordinate and make...
just drinking wine and shootin' the shit...
going white water rafting
I wish that I had a canoe
So that I could canoe to you
That’s all I really want to do
Is to canoe on over to you
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