October 2011
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On Today's Writer's Almanac
In Praise of the Great Bull Walrus
by Alden Nowlan
I wouldn’t like to be one of the walrus people for the rest of my life but I wish I could spend one sunny afternoon lying on the rocks with them. I suspect it would be similar to drinking beer in a tavern that caters to longshoremen and won’t admit women. We’d exchange no cosmic secrets. I’d merely say, “How yuh...
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“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– The Great Gatsby [by F. Scott Fitzgerald] (via perricatherine)
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“I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.”
– Sylvia Plath (via literaryheartbeat)
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oh anne sexton, you saucy, clever woman
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
a devious retelling by Anne Sexton
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No matter what life you lead
the virgin is a lovely number:
cheeks as fragile as cigarette paper,
arms and legs made of Limoges,
lips like Vin Du Rhône,
rolling her china-blue doll eyes
open and shut.
Open to say,
Good Day Mama,
and shut for the thrust
of the unicorn.
She is unsoiled.
She is as white as a bonefish.
Once...
Lewis Carroll, "Dreamland"
sharingpoetry:
When midnight mists are creeping, And all the land is sleeping, Around me tread the mighty dead, And slowly pass away. Lo, warriors, saints, and sages, From out the vanished ages, With solemn pace and reverend face Appear and pass away. The blaze of noonday splendour, The twilight soft and tender, May charm the eye: yet they shall die, Shall die and...
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Foweles in the frith, The fisses in the flod, And I mon waxe wod Much sorw I walke with For beste of bon and blod.
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studying middle english lyrics. there are some really beautiful gems in this collection.
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“She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is...”
– Vonnegut
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Concerning Cambridge: Party Hoppin'
kasiaintransit:
“Just got paid, Friday night Party hoppin’, feelin right Booties shakin’, all around Pump that jam, while I’m gettin’ down”
That, ladies and gentlemen, is the poetic chorus to “Just Got Paid” by the immortal boy band *NYSNC. What words of wisdom. How else would we know how to spend all of our hard-earned salary in the matter of hours? And on Friday night, too— way to keep the...
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Why we should use the Oxford Comma
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A direct quote from The Times newspaper, talking about a Peter Ustinov documentary and saying that:
“highlights of his global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector”.
According to AP style, journalists do not use the Oxford Comma. Different writing, different rules. I bet this writer knew how many self-professed...
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Promiscuous
“Mixes easily,” dictionaries used to say, a straight shot from the Latin. Chemists applied the term to matter’s amiability. But the Random House Dictionary (1980) gives as its prime meaning: “characterized by frequent and indiscriminate changes of one’s sexual partners.” Sounds like a long way to say “slut,” that glob of blame we once threw equally...
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“Autumn eats its leaf out of my hand: we are friends.
From the nuts we shell...”
– Paul Celan, from “Corona” in Poems, trans. Michael Hamburger (via proustitute)
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“Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.”
– Vonnegut
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Can we just talk about how Suzanne Vega is by far...
like, why are all artists so sad?
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Like, seriously. All they do is mope and talk about how crappy everything is.
WELL THEN. Please allow me to explain!
When you really like something, you find yourself putting yourself in its presence more and more.
The more you see, the better you understand.
The more you understand, the more distinct your preferences become.
Through time, given enough built up preferences,...
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it's all right
small cheap rooms where you walk down the hall to the bathroom can seem romantic to a young writer. even the rejection slips are amusing because you are sure that you are one of the best.
but while sitting there looking across the room at the portable typer waiting for you on the table you are really in a sense insane
as you wait for one more night to arrive to sit and type Immortal Words—but now...
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Good Workers
Let us praise good workers (you know who you are) Who come gladly to the job and do what you can For as long as it takes to repair the car Or clean the house – the woman or man Who dives in and works steadily straight through, Not lagging and letting others carry the freight, Who joke around but do what you need to do, Like the home caregiver who comes daily at eight A.m. to wash and dress the man...
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