December 2010
4 posts
Dear Coke Talk: On new years eve. →
dearcoketalk:
What’s up with the collective disinterest in NYE this year? A shared coming of age for those claiming to be newly minted as mature? “It’s a recession, yo” (hardly seems to be the case with economic success to the few at all-time highs)?
It’s almost January, mid 60s and sunny (my half-hearted…
November 2010
4 posts
“Nightlong, in the granite yard, invisible cats
Have been howling like women, or...”
– Sylvia Plath from “Insomniac,” 1961. (via liams)
“You have lived on broken hearts all your life.”
– C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (via rguiden)
June 2010
2 posts
“Please don’t go. We’ll eat you up. We love you so.”
– Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are (via libraryland)
May 2010
8 posts
musicage:
Margaret Leng Tan on Radio Papesse in...
A Writer's Ruminations: The Black Art by Anne... →
booklover:
A woman who writes feels too much, those trances and portents! As if cycles and children and islands weren’t enough; as if mourners and gossips and vegetables were never enough. She thinks she can warn the stars. A writer is essentially a spy. Dear love, I am that girl. A man who writes knows too much, such spells and fetiches! As if erections and congresses and products weren’t...
April 2010
2 posts
“Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via quotesixty)
“Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary...”
– Boris Pasternak, Russian Nobel Prize-Winning Author extraordinaire (via nocaute) (via libraryland) (via booklover)
March 2010
11 posts
“Substitute ‘damn’ everytime you’re inclined to write ‘very.’ Your editor will...”
– Mark Twain (via libraryland)
February 2010
8 posts
Why Regret? →
Didn't you like the way the ants help the peony globes open by eating the glue off? Weren't you cheered to see the ironworkers sitting on an I-beam dangling from a cable, in a row, like starlings, eating lunch, maybe baloney on white with fluorescent mustard? Wasn't it a revelation to waggle from...
pencil version of misirlou →
January 2010
31 posts
nietzche's angel foodcake recipe
NIETZSCHE’S ANGEL FOOD CAKE.
BY REBECCA COFFEY
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1. Allow the angel to reach room temperature. Then kill it.
2. Kill God. Set Him aside.
3. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
4. Ecstatically whip, as if possessed by a storm-wind of freedom, 1-1/2 cups of excellent egg whites with 1/4 tsp. salt and 1-1/2 tsp. cream of tartar. Continue until peaks are as if raised to their own heights...
the beautiful and talented art history guru/lounge...
“There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that...”
– Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners. Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction. (via msodradek) (via enormousair) (via booklover)
