February 2012
6 posts
yunik:
Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.
Lullaby or creepy song about mortality?
January 2012
14 posts
YouTube Generation
One day you catch your reflection in the window of an abandoned storefront. You will say to yourself: “This is it. Today is the day that I start my band. The time for procrastination is through.” But, that’s a tough racket, and, aside from that, when people leave—as they have and will continually—it’s as if you’ve been left behind after the rapture, with three cigarettes and a...
“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning, sometimes find it...”
– from Silas Marner by George Eliot
New Year's Resolution
Everyday, I will say “yes” to one thing that my first inclination is to say “no” to.
December 2011
29 posts
“This process of self-consciousness in relation to another self-consciousness has...”
– Hegel, “The Phenomenology of Mind”
Watchwakecodesleep:
… Denim Chicken?
“Long you must suffer, knowing not what,
until suddenly out of spitefully chewed...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Untitled
“This is why, though the old man has a name (“[I] spoke courageously to him,...”
– Final Paper on “The Tell-Tale Heart”
“I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor...”
– Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre”
“Villains!” I shrieked, “dissemble no more! I admit the deed! —...”
– Edgar Allen Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”
“Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and...”
– from “The Natural History of German Life” by George Eliot
“I had to stop watching after the truly unsettling portrayal of beer pong…...”
– Member Review of “Beer Pong Saved My Life” on Netflix
“Dear Chris
it is 3:17 a.m. in New York city, it is
1962, it is the year of...”
– Ted Berrigan, The Sonnets, LXXVII
“The point is not that societies are just like poems, but that literary critics,...”
– Caroline Levine - “Strategic Formalism: Toward a New Method in Cultural Studies” (from Victorian Studies)
November 2011
6 posts
