February 2010
59 posts
January 2010
46 posts
“‘Cause it would be awesome dude, have you seen this place?”
and the heart says whatever →
“Feelings for days!” - Molly McAleer, Internet user
But the books you like must also be read with shudders and gasps… Literature,...
– Vladimir Nabokov, in his rather critical lecture on Dostoevksy, arguing that while there is pleasure to be taken in dismantling mediocre literature it is just as necessary to interrogate and re-imagine one’s favorite works. (via mills) (via ljm)
rendit:
“Natty Boh? Isn’t that the hipster beer?”
worst ever (missed connections edition) →
“living with you was worse than…. anything. you smoked my cigarettes behind my back and bullied me to my face. you were drunk and naked a lot.”
I still don’t see the problem?
"I want to marry my novels and have short stories... →
Welcome to the World Ten Years From Now →
Anybody who “paints a picture” of some coming year is kidding - he’s only fancying up something in the present or past, not blueprinting the future. All such writing is essentially satiric (today-centered), not utopic (tomorrow-centered). This book, then, is a rather bilious rib on 1950 - on what 1950 might have been like if it had been allowed to fulfill itself, if it had gone...