I went to the lawyer's estate sale to see what kind of freak shit you accumulate when you have the money and the dedication to the life of the mind.
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A weaving association of human desires, the reading of which moves the mind as living does.
Issues that, despite the great age of the texts we find them in, speak directly to our current moment.
Morrison might call the "nameless inscrutable, earthly thing" Ahab's prophetic ability to perceive whiteness as ideology.
These are not deplorables. They are people navigating challenging circumstances with the tools available to them.
I didn't understand love was real,
that kind people write evil poems.
The nature of her celebrity means that the world shapes itself around M.
The main advantage of halves is their flexibility. They can adapt to anything.
I hate utility when we are talking about poetry because the function of a poem is to be a poem
It is as if he took an old rotting book, hollowed it out, and stuffed his own weird little objects in there.
the book presents the odd spectacle of a more interesting writer admiring the work of a less interesting writer. It is the complete reverse of the Sontag book
There is no arrival. All arrivals are departures.
We used to dream about getting a plastic ball, and now we had a real, genuine hand-stitched football. But we were too scared to even show it off.