“Fiction in particular, narration in general, may be seen not as a disguise or falsification of what is given but as an active encounter with the environment by means of posing options and alternatives, and an enlargement of present reality by connecting it to the unverifiable past and the unpredictable future.” – Ursula K. Le [...]
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QOTD
“The king was pregnant…” -From The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Reading
I just finished Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. It was definitely one of my favorite recent reads. I read it once a while back (probably in school) and I wasn’t impressed then. This time however, I was either laughing my ass off, sobbing into my beer, or seething with hatred at the tragic irony of life. [...]
QOTD
“…the difference between stupid and intelligent people—and this is true whether or not they are well-educated—is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations—in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.” From The Diamond Age or, A Young Lady’s [...]
Best run-on ever
Nor had they asked her, even out of courtesy, why she was so pale or why she awoke with the purple rings under her eyes in spite of the fact that she expected it, of course from a family that had always considered her a nuisance, an old rag, a booby painted on the wall, and [...]
it’s about time us slobs got some respect…
Something I heard on the radio yesterday. An interview with the author of A Perfect Mess, David Freeman. “…if you have a really neat desk, then that means you’re spending a certain amount of time taking every piece of paper that comes across your desk and processing it in some way. If you keep a [...]
