January 2011
206 posts
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
– The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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Watchwaxandmilk:
“Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?”
The Maldive Shark, by Herman Melville →
About the Shark, phlegmatical one, Pale sot of the Maldive sea, The sleek little pilot-fish, azure and slim, How alert in attendance be. From his saw-pit of mouth, from his charnel of maw They have nothing of harm to dread, But liquidly glide on his ghastly flank Or before his Gorgonian head; Or lurk in the port of serrated teeth In white triple tiers of glittering gates, And there...
Musee des Beaux Arts, W.H. Auden
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always must be Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating On a pond at the edge of...
Podcast Paroxysm: What Clutch? →
I swung by my old stomping grounds and hung out with my good friend Matt Moore for a while. We talked about the Spurs, the Jazz, the Celtics, the Bulls, the Thunder, the Hornets, and the hairy eyeballs Matt gets when he checks game scores during Lamaze class. Give it a listen if you’ve got an hour to spare.
The Guardian’s Jack Shenker reports from...
