Saturday, August 20, 2011

Sunday, August 14, 2011

M and M

Artists are the early warning system of a culture. - M.McLuhan

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

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Boys before me
Boys between me
Boys beneath me
Boys within me
Hatch me hatch me

Hermann Hesse

"There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself."

Thursday, August 4, 2011

extra pure pamplemousse

Mama loves mango, papa loves tango
Mama goes left, papa goes right
Mama goes slow, papa goes fast

Wicked games

Have you ever lost in the games you yourself once played?
Welcome to my world...where are all the meanings when you need them?

Title

Two things are in my mind...writing and painting

best 1st lines of novels...

"To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die." - Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988)




I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. - Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (2002)



What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long and well-made legs out before you, so that her skirt slips up to the tops of her stockings? - Gilbert Sorrentino, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things (1971)

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

1001 friends and 1001 stories

What to do on the one thousand and second night?

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Augustus

A person is neither a thing or process, but an opening through which the infinite can manifest. -M. Heidegger