February 2012
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“We often argue over which half of reality is true. I do not believe in objective...”
– Ellis Potter
“Randy Lenz’s obsessive compulsions include the need to be north, a fear of...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via frood)
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“Someone asked me if I was in a state of depression or despair, and I said,...”
– Errol Morris
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I feel better when I begin to attempt to pinpoint how my mind might work. Right now my mind is working via contingencies—when I get sad I think of other reasons why I am or should be sad. I feel better for the moment.
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“To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is...”
– Roland Barthes (via cnephas)
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'What I write is different from what I say, what I...
That which links thought with language, language with the external world, and man with man has disappeared. Like the mock tennis game at the end of Antonioni’s Blow-Up, all language games are felt to have become absurd because the ball, that which guarantees communication between subject and object, is lost.
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And still she cried, and still the world...
Eliot
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“Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is...”
– James Joyce to Frank Budgen
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“Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime...”
– T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
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“I have had a most shameful and distressing interview with dear Tom Eliot, who...”
– Virginia Woolf’s letter to a friend, February 11, 1928.
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“My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me.
Speak to me. Why do you...”
– T.S. Eliot, ‘A Game of Chess,’ The Waste Land
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All I want is consistency.
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“ O God, I am but an attempt at life!
Sleep falls again ere I am full awake....”
– A Hidden Life, George MacDonald (in Poetical Works vol 1)
January 2012
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“Indeed, my ideal soon became my life; whereas, formerly, my life had consisted...”
– George Macdonald (via novicepen)
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'Arrested Development' Comeback Officially a Go
Now I’m going to temper this news with the caveat that some member of the cast or crew has been saying that another season or movie was in the works every week or two since the show got cancelled in the first place. But that being said, this looks ever so slightly more solid.
Said Dean Lorey on his blog:
“We’re really doing this thing. Mitch Hurwitz, Jim Vallely and I are off writing the new...
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“We two remain:
yet by what miracle,
searching within the tangles of my brain,...”
– ‘We Two’ (Heliodora and Other Poems)
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“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“The loneliness in which they dwell is almost polar; they are exiles who have...”
– Mr. O. W. Firkins on Imagists
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“We two remain:
yet by what miracle,
searching within the tangles of my brain,...”
– H.D.
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