January 2012
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speak up dear
The other day I stopped by my Russian Folklore professor’s office to discuss the role of women in the religious conversion from paganism to monotheism. This man intrigues me. He is 82 years old, he sits while lecturing, and stares right through you and the world around him, harboring secrets that old age has gradually dimmed down. Little things find their way into our lectures, like how...
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Sunken Cathedral || Claude Debussy
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extremely loud & incredibly close: a brief review
Just the other day I finished re-reading Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. I don’t even remember the last time I read it, but man, it’s the kind of thing I will always keep near me. Foer weaves three perspectives in an unconventional, poetic fashion. Both his words and the imagery in his book serve as a kind of visual art.
I found myself putting...
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“Touched my heart,”
as if the words that were
assembled in a certain
way reassembled
themselves into a hand,
a hand that was invisible
yet tangible,
a hand that pushed through
skin and flesh, through
your ribcage,
and stopped just short
of your pulsating muscle
of a heart, a hand that
just ever so slighty
extended its fragile index
finger and touched a
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“Why don’t you tell me that ‘if the girl had been worth having, she’d have waited...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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