Archive for the 'fulltext' Category
"I am working on, or am interested to try, or expect to return to, such projects as the following. I shall first list them, then briefly specify a little more about most of them."
Borgesian list of James Agee's artistic ambitions outlined in his application for a Guggenheim.
"Alejandra Laviada is having a breakthrough. Literally. These days, when the 29-year-old photographer goes to her makeshift studio in one of the run-down abandoned office buildings that fill Mexico City’s historic center, she brings her camera, her tripod, and a large hammer. She takes a swing at a wall. And then she takes her shot."
Links to Barthelme stories, criticism, articles, etc.
Cary Grant's 14 chapter autobiography serialized in Ladies Home Journal in 1963.
Evolution of the field recording from that which records non-western or folk musicians to include also recordings of wildlife or other environmental sound. I'm not sure this is quite so recent a phenomena as all that, but the article's interesting anyway.
Saw Jill Magid speak at the New Museum last night.
"The information which it contains will be found to be greatly in advance of anything which has yet been presented to the English Reader; and, as far as facilities for practical management are concerned, it is believed to be a very material advance over anything which has hitherto been communicated to the Apiarian Public."
"In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first."
"Not long ago, Paul Begala, the political strategist, was speaking at a fund-raiser for a gay-rights group and said, 'When I told my father, back in Texas, that I was speaking to an L.G.B.T. group, he said that sounded like a sandwich.' From the audience, Frank called out, 'Sometimes it is!'"
"Frequently, during that hot summer, Dennis would write a dozen cards which had been ordered; we would deliver them, and with the twenty-five cents thus obtained would buy a watermelon. Young Dennis was generous then; he is generous now."
"There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat."
It sort of feels wrong to read this, but at the same time, I never knew much about him or his life that he didn't write about in his own essays and books.
"I asked her why she hadn’t warned me about the wasps. 'I’m not that kind of angel,' she said."
In anticipation of Chris Adrian's appearance at the Housing Works Bookstore Café on Nov. 3rd.
Apparently what I bought off of Ebay the other week is the "Model T" of record players. You have to take the platter off and move the belt by hand to a different bit of the axle to switch between 45 and 33 rpm. By hand. Pretty soon I'll be smoking a pipe and predicting the weather with my aches.
What appears to be a reasonable facsimile of the full text of Fuller's Synergetics.
"...is a large-format publication about 300 pages long and containing almost 800 maps. Data from decennial censuses prior to 2000 support nearly 150 maps and figures, providing context and an historical perspective for many of the topics presented."
"It’s fun to think of it as ‘dusty’ blue because of what befalls it later. It’s by far the best suit in the movie, in the movies, perhaps the whole world."
Vannevar Bush's landmark article in the Atlantic theorizing a machine which partially (wholly?) inspired the functional base of the world wide web.
If this isn't complete yet, they sure seem to be working on it.
