May 2012
88 posts
“Apparently Arab scholars, when speaking of the text, use this admirable...”
– Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text (Le Plaisir du texte), 17.
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Index Rerum: Cambridge, 20/5/2012 →
Solitude is a problem for writers generally, who spend so much time alone rehearsing a form of ideal communication. And men —as a practical matter — are often worse at being alone than women. But for male writers, however often an appearance of self-sufficiency can be stripped away to reveal a hidden structure of support, there is a writerly tradition of solitude that has existed at least since...
So Sleepy by Fiona Apple f/ Jon Brion and the Punch Brothers on Grooveshark
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“You are sad. Go into your sadness rather than escaping into some activity, into...”
– Osho, The Book of Wisdom (via index-rerum)
Walk a Thin Line by Fleetwood Mac on Grooveshark
tusk, which, despite loving fleetwood mac as a kid, i only came to later in life. one of the records that freed me from the tyranny of sophisticated and precise lyric writing. i wouldn’t go so far as to say that its rewards are only musical for me.
even though i am a lo-fi girl at heart, i don’t care how much it cost to make. i’m...
