A way of happening, a mouth
May 2012
163 posts
“He refers to the seasons as ‘Winter, winter, Google, fall.’”
—This NYT review almost reads like a Dos Equis commercial
iwantnothingless replied to your quote: It occurred to me that the novel, though fiction,…
Wait Elif is talking about Orhan Pamuk? I read The New Life and I had NO IDEA WHAT IT WAS ABOUT except that it have me certain feelings and I liked that a lot. Let’s read more Pamuk.
She created a minor controversy last year when she told a reporter that she couldn’t finish Snow; she may have even called Pamuk boring. I guess she has come around.
Also, I’d be willing to put one of his novels on The List. (Incidentally, should we publish The List for the sake of accountability and also consistency?)
“It occurred to me that the novel, though fiction, isn’t uniformly fictional. Endings are fake, because nothing in real life ever ends; characters are composites, because real people are either too close to you or too far. But the furniture and clothes: that stuff must almost all be real. There’s no way Balzac invented all that furniture. All those soaring ambitions and human destinies are just a pretext for telling the truth about the sofas and the clocks.”
—Elif Batuman
There is a Fountain Filled with Blood
The Welcome Wagon
“There is a Fountain Filled with Blood” - The Welcome Wagon
iwantnothingless replied to your post: One of the sixth graders asked me what “a kegel”…
wait…but what did you say?
Well, she asked in front of a class full of 11th and 12th graders, so I told her to either ask me later or talk to another adult about it.
One of the sixth graders asked me what “a kegel” was today.
SOMEBODY GET ME A DRINK.
You Are The Blood
Sufjan Stevens
Sufjan Stevens — You are the Blood
“This little fishy got caught…this little fishy went to the market…this little fishy died….”
—sixth grader talking to herself in the corner
- Student 1: [referring to Symphony No. 5 in C Minor playing on my computer] What is this?
- Student 2: Are you serious? This is Beethoven.
- Student 3: You know, whenever music was just bum-bum-bum-bum-bum...
- Student 1: I thought Beethoven was a dog...
atomicairspace: Today is my dog's fourth birthday.
You guys may not care as much, but I sure as hell do.
Happy 4th Birthday Butch, this is crazy.
I can’t believe we’ve been kickin’ back and owning all these fools for four years, and they’re still taking our shit. You’re my home dawg skillet gangster if I ever did have one. I’ve never seen a dog that can top your mad swag. Happy happy fourth to you buddy. Love the poop that comes out of you, amazing little stub butt mutt <3
