December 2010
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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved...
– Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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Sick of this shit.
True facts.
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When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and...
– John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
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‘Why, Sir, exclaimed I, in astonishment, ‘do you imagine that the...
– Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Earth’s Holocaust”
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disappear is right
you can scream your throat raw out here
and the landscape...
– Dan Dietz, Americamisfit
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Thus it is that ideas, which grow up within the imagination and appear so lovely...
– Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Artist of the Beautiful”
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I many times thought Peace had come
When Peace was far away –
As Wrecked Men –...
– Emily Dickinson (739)
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Bouyed up by that coffin, for almost one whole day and night, I floated on a...
– Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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I feel strained, half-stranded, as ropes that tow dismasted frigates in a gale;...
– Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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See! Moby Dick seeks thee not. It is thou, thou, that madly seekest him!
– Herman Melville, Moby Dick (Starbuck)
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I love it when my vision starts blurring. That’s when I wonder why I’m writing about Melville and his goats.
Melville, I didn’t know you and Aberforth were in the goat fan club (also known as “OMG GOATS ARE THE CUTEST BESTEST THINGS EVAH!!!”) together.
Now, I guess I do.
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Ahab: What do ye do when ye see a whale, men?
Crew: Throw poodles at its eye!!!
Ishmael: (aside) Ah, but the whale has two eyes…
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They therefore that against nature viciously use the night for the day, and the...
– Thomas Hill, A most briefe and pleasant treatise of the interpretation of sundrie dreames (1601)
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The Beaux' Stratagem: A Play Guide →
Bitches.
This will be a presumably ongoing project for oh ever. For whatever it’s worth. Or isn’t worth. Eh.
But really, once these classes are fecking over? What really ought to go down is an Iceman one, is what.
Point being, I don’t plan on dicking around with it much before tomorrow. Because papers hold precedence, though I’d rather those ‘ud just disappear a...
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One more week of this bullshit.
One week.
Oy.
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"She Caught the Katy," The Blues Brothers →
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Oh my god, Eugene O’Neill fell in a puddle.
Two days ago.
The puddle was cold.
Poor Eugene.
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A sort of water fell into my soul.
Today is much better than yesterday.
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You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the Truth in.
– Herman Melville, ‘Hawthorne and His Mosses’
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CAN YOU GUESS WHAT PLAY THIS IS??!?
Everyone wants to be wealthy. Some guys try to sleep with some ladies. The king of the dunces is a highwayman. And then the author died.
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… “I would prefer not to.”
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Will I have eyes at the bottom of the sea, supposing I descend those endless...
– Moby Dick
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Culture representing form and order will always demand sacrifice and subjugation...
– Susan Howe, My Emily Dickinson
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