January 2011
39 posts
Jan 1st
“‎For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words...”
– T.S. Eliot
Jan 1st
December 2010
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved...”
– Maurice Sendak via Catherine Campbell, Michelle. (via somethingchanged)
Dec 21st
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Dec 19th
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Dec 17th
Things I Want for Christmas:
1.  History books.  Specifically: China, unification to present; Europe, 16th cent. to present; United States, inception to 20th cent. 2.  Relatedly, theological history books. 3.  Every Out of Print t-shirt (okay, not every one.  Not a Pride and Prejudice fan). 4.  Scrivener. 5.  High expectations for the coming year (not sure how you gift wrap that one).
Dec 17th
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“When a poet’s mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly...”
– T.S. Eliot, The Metaphysical Poets.
Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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“You don’t read Crumley for plot. You read him for his outlaw attitude,...”
– Maxim Jakubowski, on James Crumley, author of the best goddamn detective novel of all time.
Dec 16th
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Dec 14th
“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is...”
– e.e. cummings  (via psychotherapy)
Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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December 10th
1830 Emily Dickinson is born in Amherst, Mass., where she is to spend most of her life: “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”  1950 Accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm, William Faulkner avows: “I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail.” - A Book of Days for the Literary Year.
Dec 11th
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“Literature is not a way of knowing reality but a kind of collective utopian...”
– Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory.
Dec 11th
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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“Hey, little train! We’re all jumping on The train that goes to the...”
– O Children, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
Dec 8th
deadpresidents: “It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.” — Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), 7th President of the United States (1829-1837), and a notoriously bad speller.
Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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“When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an...”
– James Crumley, The Last Good Kiss.
Dec 7th
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Dec 4th
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Dec 2nd
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“In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne’er...”
– John Keats, Stanzas.
Dec 2nd
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December 1st
1590 Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene is registered for publication with the Stationers’ Company.  1663 John Dryden, 32, marries Elizabeth Howard, the daughter of the first Earl of Berkshire.  She will bear him three sons.  1860 The first installment of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations is published in All the Year Round. (from A Book of Days for the Literary Year)
Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
Dec 1st
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