June 2010
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According to John Keats..
meditate on some truth/beauty/imagination
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive,...
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"Lenny Hearts Eunice" by Gary Shteyngart
See, I haven’t lost sight of posting stories!
http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/06/14/100614fi_fiction_shteyngart
This piece was featured in The New Yorker’s “20 under 40” issue and is adapted from Shteyngart’s novel “Super Sad True Love Story,” which comes out this July.
It’s an (eventually) endearing and funny piece of speculative...
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Love at first purchase
I’m moving into a new apartment come August and yesterday I bought my first decor piece.
You can buy this tealight holder from Z Gallerie or on their website. It’s on sale ;)
Z Gallerie has to be one of my favorite home decor and furniture stores. I love their aesthetic: modern but not bare and chic but not boring.
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Songbird
I took a poetry class once. It was an intro class, so each student only workshopped one piece. Here’s what I shared.
Songbird
She told me everything- How her father used his fleshy piston to sow his seed all over the trailer park How her mother quieted her brain synapses with brandy or gin How she was supposed to have a younger brother, but he came out raw and bleeding How she wanted me...
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According to Oscar Wilde.. "Phrases and...
Some light reading.
According to Mr. Oscar Wilde..
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty.
Those who see any difference between...