February 2012
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To a Louse
by Robert Burns
Ha! whaur ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie? Your impudence protects you sairly; I canna say but ye strunt rarely, Owre gauze and lace; Tho’, faith! I fear ye dine but sparely On sic a place.
Ye ugly, creepin, blastit wonner, Detested, shunn’d by saunt an’ sinner, How daur ye set your fit upon her- Sae fine a lady? Gae somewhere else and seek your dinner On...
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The Story of Porno
lareviewofbooks:
MICHAELANGELO MATOS on two dirty books. Collage made from photographs found in Taschen’s Big Book of Pussy
Mike Edison Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! Of Playboys, Pigs, and Penthouse Paupers: An American Tale of Sex and Wonder Soft Skull Press, November 2011. 320 pp. Dian Hanson, ed. The Big Book of Pussy Taschen, November 2011. 372 pp. Introducing “The Epiphany,” one of the “Etc.”...
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An angle of light. Believe in it.
– Ana Božičević, from “Death, Is All”
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The electric things have their life too. Paltry as those lives are.
– Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Reader, I married him.
– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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The ultimate decision will be made by Time.
– Ford Madox Ford
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The underlying bureaucratic key is the ability to deal with boredom. To breathe,...
– David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
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when god lets my body be
by e. e. cummings
when god lets my body be From each brave eye shall sprout a tree fruit that dangles therefrom the purpled world will dance upon Between my lips which did sing a rose shall beget the spring that maidens whom passion wastes will lay between their little breasts My strong fingers beneath the snow Into strenuous birds shall go my love walking in the grass their wings...
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It was my love that did us both to death.
– Sylvia Plath, Electra on Azalea Path
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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
– C. S. Lewis
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A little overflowing word
by Emily Dickinson
A little overflowing word That any, hearing, had inferred For Ardor or for Tears, Though Generations pass away, Traditions ripen and decay, As eloquent appears —
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What role does dance play in acts of public ceremony? How does ritual impact the physical form? Here the artist LEGACY pays homage to the traditional Japanese Obon ceremony, made suddenly familiar to a Western mainland audience in its juxtaposition to the gestures of contemporary hip-hop culture.
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There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.
– Alan Moore
At Home and Abroad
lareviewofbooks:
HEATHER HAVRILESKY, ELIZABETH ROSNER, and ROBIN RUSSIN on new works of fiction by Krys Lee, Susan Sherman, and Allison Burnett.
Memory Railroad, Oil on Canvas © Lee Guk Hyun
HEATHER HAVRILESKY Believers Krys Lee Drifting House Viking Adult, February 2012. 224 pp. Was it right to leave? Was it wrong to stay? Are we better off here, or there? These are the questions that...