December 2009
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“THERE ARE MORE WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES written about the fictional places of Middle...”
– Mapping the Geographies of Wikipedia Content, Zero Geography.
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A STUB OF A PENCIL
Charles Simic on writing (in) books at NYRblog:
I would love to see an anthology of comments and underlined passages by readers of history books in public libraries, who despite the strict prohibition of such activity could not help themselves and had to register their complaints about the author of the book or the direction in which humanity has been heading for the last few thousand years.
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Sehnsucht
Via:reckless-abandon:
Sehnsucht (phonetically in English, ‘zane-schooot’. Well, that’s the best I can give you!) is one of those German words that it is almost impossible to translate adequately. Along with Weltschmerz (world weariness or taedium vitae), the stage director and author Georg Tabori called Sehnsucht one of those quasi-mystical terms in German for which there is no satisfactory...
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Got my new Harper’s subscription and read Richard Rodriguez’s “Final edition: Twilight of the American Newspaper” on the train tonight. Rodriguez is saying what lots of others are saying, but he also calls on this great frontierism trope to back it up, arguing that the local newspaper used to define the city, back when the city was still a physical space:
In the...
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I guess it’s that time of the year/decade when people get all list-y about music, movies, species, etc. I love lists as much as the next guy, but sometimes enough is enough! How do people (esp. people not getting paid) have the time to consume all this culture? Shit just makes me feel inadequate! I prefer preposterous lists devoid of any temporal relevance/reference, like the 50 Most...
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