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Zoë Heller on Shirley Hazzard:
“The portrait of the permissive era that emerges from these stories is a rather somber one. Eros is less the bringer of carnal fun than a dark and rather dangerous force on which men and women (but mostly women) pin their romantic hopes at their peril. Hazzard’s female characters are not constrained by conventional sexual morality, inasmuch as they engage in premarital and extramarital sex without compunction or shame, but they evince none of the antic libertinism or experience-gathering curiosity of, say, Mary McCarthy’s women. Sex remains for them a solemn rite, a significant act of surrender, and their inability to divorce the act from higher feeling leaves them horribly vulnerable to the emotional sadism and moral carelessness of men.”
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“Meanwhile, Brenda’s corporate clients were self-satisfied knowing they had not replaced their phone lines with a customer-service bot. What they were using, instead, was cutting-edge AI backed by PhDs in literature.”
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The constant failure of muscle memory on putting contact lenses in versus taking them out, such that I’m always either sticking a lens onto another lens or grabbing voids off my cornea
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And really, both of those amount to challenging alto exercises in themselves.
Spotify wrapped my year idiotically in that the top three spots were taken by the alto-range vocal exercises I do every day, leaving as a footnote the actual music I listen to, which is apparently, um, Mitski and Bach.
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Who is going to tell the Texans that kids don't become queer by seeing drag shows? Kids become queer by seeing Linda Hamilton do pull-ups in Terminator 2.
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Penelope Fitzgerald, Innocence. This "party" scene starring a count, a monsignor, and three novelists is the funniest thing I've read in a bit.
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I call it a November-loneliness because there is a sort of demanding stillness in my heart...November never pauses, it listlessly seems to show off, don’t you think so?
-Katharine Mansfield, letter to Virginia Woolf, Nov 1921
#everynightapoem #ofsorts #epistolary #portrait
[Portrait of Katharine Mansfield by Anne Rice, 1918]
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You asked when I was coming back:
no date fixed yet;
In the hills of Ba the rain by night
spills over autumn ponds.
When might we trim the candle’s wick together
at this window facing west,
And speak back upon this moment:
of night rain falling on the hills of Ba?
君問歸期未有期，巴山夜雨漲秋池。
何當共剪西窗燭，卻話巴山夜雨時。
For tonight - a lifelong favorite, by the late Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin
李商隱 - of time, loss, and rain.
#everynightapoem #poetry #translation
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quite difficult to get good shots of these excellent c17 Snapchat filters @museecarnavalet@twitter.com
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Chinese protesters in Tsinghua holding up signs with (apparently, a physicist friend tells me) the Friedmann Equation. Bilingual math puns, that’s strong protest game.
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NEW: More than 90 #humanrights and #LGBTQ groups have sent a letter to Congressional leadership opposing #KOSA the poorly named and terribly drafted "Kids Online Safety Act," which would make kids less safe and harm marginalized communities. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/28/kids-online-safety-act-may-harm-minors-civil-society-groups-warn.html
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I keep a scrapbook/visual diary of all my projects - this is my latest experiments with tea toned cyanotype on Japanese paper.
In the course of having post-op junk cleared from my nose (sorry) I learned the word “debridement” (don’t Google it) which I wrongly interpreted to mean the production of debris.
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Latter-day Austro-Hungarian civil servant; THE WARM SOUTH, 2020 Northern Calfornia Book Award (https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781948072038/the-warm-south-a-novel.aspx); web developer; lapsed academic; bad at Zen; 🏳️⚧️
Joined Nov 2022
