February 2012
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“At the halfway house, Wallace got to know people with radically different...”
– David Foster Wallace’s struggle to surpass Infinite Jest : The New Yorker (via pegobry)
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January 2012
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“The shift [in the 1990s] from neo-Marxist to Foucauldian ideas permits the...”
– The Unintended Reformation, p. 127, Brad S. Gregory [via Joel]
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WatchSå vackert att det gör ont. Laleh och Eva Dahlgren - Lär mig om
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“To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle,
When in fact you haven’t...”
– Lying, by Richard Wilbur
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“Iceland never had any bookshops between the sixteenth century and the...”
– Robert Darnton, “‘What is the History of Books?’ Revisited” (2007)
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December 2011
16 posts
“I don’t like this expression “First World problems.” It is false and it is...”
– Teju Cole on the “#firstworldproblems” meme, in a series of tweets compiled by Alexis Madrigal (via risenapes)
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“By the time Milton reaches Book VII he has come to a kind of accord with his own...”
– John Milton, part 3: does Paradise Lost really attempt to justify God’s ways? | Jessica Martin | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk. If you’re not yet reading this series, START. (via ayjay)
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WatchDet är en Ros Utsprungen
Artist: Danny Gibson
Musician: David Åhlèn with Andreas Eklöf
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“She sang beyond the genius of the sea.
The water never formed to mind or voice,...”
– The Idea of Order at Key West – Wallace Stevens
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“After all—and this is a truth so certain that only the most doctrinaire Marxist...”
– David Bentley Hart in The New Criterion.
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November 2011
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“At the first session I attended I witnessed a meeting which included every kind...”
– The story of Abū ‘Umar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Sa’dī who visited Baghdad at the end of the tenth century, from the biographical dictionary of the Spanish Arabs written by the eleventh century author Abū ‘Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥumaydī (d. 1095). [Quoted from Sidney Griffith, The...
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“When the Greek crisis began two years ago, the cover of a popular German...”
– George Zarkadakis [via notes from a commonplace-book]
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October 2011
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“In the Islamic community, Ahmad said, dispute centers around the religious...”
– “Screen Savers,” over at The New Yorker [via Paul] (via portraitoftheartistasayoungman)
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