December 2011
“Those first years when you can’t blow your own nose, when your father...”
– A.A. Gill, “Fatherhood” — from Is Further Away
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Eygpt: A Riche History →
On the history of Café Riche in Cairo, and how it has paralleled decades of social revolution. This whole piece reminds me of this quote, on the politics of encounter:
Nobody can know in advance when an epic historical-geographic performance will be enacted, nor are there preconceived formulas for what makes a successful encounter. What is clear, however, is that any moment of encounter will...
Free '20s Jazz Collection →
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“The endowment effect works for good in the German city of Munich. I once rented...”
– How to Dispel Your Illusions.
“It had been long enough since I had taken a siesta through a heat-struck...”
– Alexandra Fuller, “Her Heart Inform Her Tongue.”
Siesta.
“Here’s how it works: Historic recordings from wax cylinders or scratchy...”
– What’s it like to play with a ghost?
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Penthouse Interviews Patti Smith, 1976 →
pavblog:
“I’m still pretty dumb about girl stuff. For a while I said, “Ah, girls are stupid.” But after seeing all these Jeanne Moreau movies, I think being a girl is where it’s at. Like when I’m about thirty-five I’m gonna start wearing black cocktail dresses and become a real cunt.”
this entire interview is unreal.
“A hundred years ago the Araucanians were incredibly fierce and brave. They...”
– Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia. So lyrical.
little death.
“A university silo in Arizona published a theory that the impact of speech can be measured, with high dosages producing symptoms of the little death, the evening coma, a rictus in the legs.”
This “little death” that is literatures favorite thing. Annie Clark sings of it in “The Apocalypse Song” — “please keep your victory/but give me little death” — Leonard Michaels observes its edge in the...
