janvier 2009
19 billets
Quotations
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
~ Hesketh Pearson
James Wood is a bit of a blowhard
As I plodded through James Wood’s essay, Hysterical Realism, I found myself becoming increasingly frustrated as I read along, and I noted, after having read about two thirds of the text, that my anger had eventually given way to a sort of exhaustion and weariness. It seemed as though Wood had no absolutely grounds for his objection to this ‘Hysterical Realism,’ and that it was simply its deviation...
An email from my dad (in response to my post about...
“Dear Ben,
I have been working hard, so it’s absolutely necessary for me to take a brief respite from my advance planning for my patients. So I thought I’d pause for a moment (as few in number as those moments are), and just between you and I, during this temporary reprieve from my dreary work, drop you a line. Have you been watching the inaugural events? It is so...
David Foster Wallace explains, essentially, the...
psychotherapy:
“The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing is gonna come in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don’t make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I’m gonna be pissed and miserable every time I have to shop. Because my natural default...
Food
Having not yet been able to thoroughly reflect on Mark Greif’s latest n + 1 article, “On Food,” I can offer only some initial thoughts and impressions: I find myself wondering, after some twenty pages, what exactly it was that Mark Greif sought to do in this article. Highlighting statistics, in the beginning of the text, that illustrate the disproportionate amount of food available in...