The citizens of Amsterdam expressed alarm, expectation, and a touch of arousal when faced with events transpiring in Washington.
Said things like, “Now he’s gone too far—they’ll have to stop him!”
Back in DC, things grew increasingly tender.
Tender like uncooked salmon on a bamboo slab.
Tender like a cut after you swim in the ocean.
The bass boost is all in the mind.
"The intellectual mistake was to fixate on Putin as the bad man who came along and suddenly undid the good work of Boris Yeltsin."
"In other words, do what you must, come what may."
California's East Area rapist murdered 12 people and raped 45 over decades. He's still out there somewhere, imbibing communion wafers. No one knows how he looks since he wore masks. And never left a fingerprint. The single identifying detail from witness statements confirms that the suspect had an unusually tiny penis.
Susan Sontag: I write and talk in order to find out what I really think.
I think war with North Korea will exhaust us and result in strategic immobility.
I think libertarianism will never recover unless it reasserts its liberalism while challenging the Neo-liberal consensus' approach to globalization policy.
Abbot Moses: Go and sit in thy cell, and thy cell shall teach thee all things.
"Children are the orgasm of the world like hovercraft are the orgasm of the future or silence is the orgasm of the telephone, or shit is the orgasm of the lasagne."
Walker Percy: "It is a mystery which I ponder endlessly: that my life is divided into two parts, Before and After, before and after the moment I discovered that my wife had been rendered ecstatic, beside herself, by a man on top of her." [from Lancelot]
In 1957, Donald Barthelme wrote to Walker Percy to solicit a piece for Forum. He liked the way Percy's "The Man on the Train" explored existentialist themes in American landscapes.
Both Barthelme and Percy were raised Catholics, both were fascinated by Kierkegaard, both kept tabs on pop culture as sign of national health. In response to the query, Percy sumbitted "The Loss of the Creature" which probed space between perceptions and reality.
Percy sent chapter 2 of The Moviegoer to Don who cut huge chunks from last 12 pages and shaped it into a story. The excerpt titled "Carnival in Gentilly" appeared in Forum Summer 1960 issue a year before novel was published.
Donald Barthelme's City Life was published in 1970. It included two complementary stories featuring dialogues between Q and A: "The Explanation" and "Kierkegaard Unfair to Schegel". In the first, they discuss whether purity can be quantified and agree that it can't. It is abstract. In the second, discussion about Kierkegaard's attack on Schegel in The Concept of Irony, published 1841, where K. goes after S.'s book, Lucide, for its nihilism, obscenity, formal unconventional. And K. chastises himself for being witty and clever at a party.
I still cannot find a way to write Trump.
