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Monthly Archives: June 2011

The Most Unheard-of Solution

Thursday, June 30, 2011

“Every human being has, I believe, at times given room to the idea of creating a world himself. The Pope, in a flattering way, encouraged these thoughts in me when I was a young man. I reflected then that I might, had I been given omnipotence and a free hand, have made a fine world. […]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2011-06-26

Sunday, June 26, 2011

just got back from amiens & paris. best thing i saw was the musée Fragonard http://bit.ly/jvJXjG , the veterinary museum. a romantic, i am. # when life gives you lemons, say "thank you." an unwelcome gift is no reason to be discourteous. # bought three more books today, this time at pêle-mêle. dinesen, paz, and […]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2011-06-19

Sunday, June 19, 2011

new goal: concoct marvin the martian cologne. # flannery o'connor reading Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Literature, then A Good Man is Hard to Find – http://bit.ly/iHbV45 # fifty thousand words done on this novel. can't wait to be done with the draft, so i can work on some short stories. #soslow #slowest […]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2011-06-12

Sunday, June 12, 2011

listening to pet sounds & dusty springfield, which means i should be writing this [interminable] book. instead, got distracted by logarithms # oh man they do everything they are everyplace i can see the inside of the universe and it is all plaited maths what is happening #logarithms # this hostel is playing a light […]

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Time Cannot Alter It—And

Sunday, June 12, 2011

We have the picture of you in mind, when you were young, posturing (for a photographer) in scarves (if you could have done it) but now, for none of you is immortal, ninety- three, the three, ninety and three, Mary, Ellen and Emily, what beauty is it clings still about you? Undying? Magical? For there […]

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Squint Skyward and Listen

Thursday, June 9, 2011

We could stand for a century—staring— With our heads cocked In the broad daylight at this thing. Joy, landlocked, In bodies that don’t keep, Dumbstruck with the sweetness of being Until we don’t be told “Take this,” and “Eat this” Told: “The meteorite is the source of the light, And the meteor’s just what we […]

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Thailand – Koh Tao – Chumphon Pinnacle – Whale Shark

Monday, June 6, 2011

Whale shark, Chumphon Pinnacles – Koh Tao – Thailand from paulboccaccio on Vimeo. “These monsters are seven spans long. Between their eyes there is a distance of one span. But they are harmless souls.” —the cartographer of the Piri Reis map

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2011-06-05

Sunday, June 5, 2011

@kawesomes KAAAATEEEERNAAAA, AAAAAH'LL SEEEEE YOOOUUU SOOOON #weareskydiving #orpossiblyinapipe in reply to kawesomes # tomorrow i venture north, toward bucharest &c. # @ken_schneyer istanbul is good story soil. and, of course, shauna exploits that like nobody's business. in reply to ken_schneyer # @mikejoosse not really, but i always want recommendations from you. stand and deliver, sirrah. […]

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Not Many Such, Norm

Friday, June 3, 2011

For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm. There are not very many such books. Vladimir Nabokov, in the afterward of Lolita

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