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Little Infinite Poem

To take the wrong road is to arrive at the snow, and to arrive at the snow is to get down on all fours for centuries and eat the cemetery grass. To take the wrong road is to arrive at woman woman who isn't afraid of light, woman who murders two roo

Posted: May. 2, 2008 08:14 AM

Best album of all time?

So far, my quizzees have answered: Swans are Dead Blue Pet Sounds My Aim is True Mine? Loveless.

Posted: Apr. 22, 2008 03:31 AM

Notes from Dante in Love

Dante originally called The Divine Comedy "Vision" T.S. Eliot said people stay in Hell only because they cannot change The Latin word for "knowledge" sapientia, means the distinctions of the tongue, taste In the early 1300s, businesses establish them

Posted: Apr. 21, 2008 01:12 AM

Neutral Milk Hotel Review

It's been almost exactly 10 years since I wrote this review of Neutral Milk Hotel's album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. 10 years! That album hasn't meant any less to me after all this time. The review could have used a good editor; I'm an incorrigib

Posted: Apr. 16, 2008 04:42 AM

The use of moods

Aw, thank you sweet people for worrying about my being sad. A few books and I was good as new pale green spring grass. It was just a mood. From the Anne Carson I was reading yesterday: He hugged his overcoat closer and tried to assemble in his mind

Posted: Apr. 15, 2008 04:26 AM

In The Woods by Tana French

I almost missed a couple of meetings because of this book, promising myself I'd leave the house and get downtown, but unable to force myself to stop reading, even starting a new chapter over the cries my Inner German screaming you're late, you're lat

Posted: Apr. 14, 2008 05:42 AM

Book reviews

I just went back and read all these old book reviews I wrote 3-5 years ago, and the rest going back to 2000. I'm in New York and sad and broken and missing my bed and dogs and friends and library and so I went to the bookstore and bought paperback co

Posted: Apr. 13, 2008 11:24 PM

New Ending: All over the world the beautiful red breezes went on blowing hand in hand.

Posted: Apr. 13, 2008 01:55 PM

Notes from Deep Economy

All primates live in groups and "an isolated individual will repeatedly pull a lever with no reward other than the glimpse of another monkey." (Richard Layard) Medieval cities usually had about 20,000 people, divided into four quarters, with a church

Posted: Apr. 9, 2008 10:32 AM

Presocratic Philosophy

Thales, a Presocratic philosopher, thought that, contrary to appearances and common sense, the world was composed of water, while Heraclitus thought it was composed of fire. Gleaned from my Intellectual Devotional.

Posted: Apr. 8, 2008 02:12 AM

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