January 2009
90 posts
Just flew in to Berlin this morning. I’ll be here for 3 weeks.
“The great thing about the dead, they make space”
– Rabbit is Rich
“Something distant is attracting me. I look up, and the stars in their near...”
– John Updike
“memories are just some vague and uncertain fragments that come and go, never...”
– Kauro Ohno
Nazi angel of death Josef Mengele 'created twin... →
"Former French President Chirac hospitalised after... →
(via prolapsed)
oh man
I’ve always, always, bought more books than I’ve read. This isn’t to say that I don’t read, I do, but I’m beginning to think that I get more pleasure out of aquiring the text (by way of buying, borrowing, or shoplifting it) than I do when I get around to reading the fucking thing. And since I’ve graduated, and have nothing to do all day, this what was once a...
Just finished the first volume of Susan Sontag’s journals. Very good, although I’ve reached my annual quota for reading about the inner workings of sapphic relationships.
Foucault on the Library, 1967
“Dreams are no longer summoned with closed eyes, but in reading; and a true image is now a product of learning: it derives from words spoken in the past, exact recensions, the amassing of minute facts, monuments reduced to infinitesimal fragments, and the reproductions of reproductions. In the modern experience, these elements contain the power of the impossible. Only the assiduous clamor...
