January 2012
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2011 Endings/2012 Beginnings
December sunburn Empanadas (hecho de M.) Mapping the sky (Alpha Centauri, a double star) Tourists A deadline A state of catatonia
Jan 1st
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December 2011
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Dec 31st
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ListenAndrew Bird, Night Sky (deuxcorps)
Dec 31st
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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“I have walked much to the sea, not knowing what I seek.”
– Loren Eiseley, “The Inner Galaxy,” from The Unexpected Universe (touba)
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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The stars do not know us. -Rilke, from Uncollected Poems
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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“It’s precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and...”
– Max Frisch
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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The lightest particles gather the energy, he says, and given their density, outweigh stars. -Rosmarie Waldrop, from “Conversation 12: On Hieroglyphs,” Reluctant Gravities +
Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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“The recoil from “survival” as a category of art historical attention is attributable to its basic impurity; Nachleben [afterlife] is impure in much the way Leben [life] itself is. Both are messy, cluttered, muddled, various, haphazard, retentive, protean, liquid, oceanic in scope and complexity, impervious to analytical organization.” —Georges Didi-Huberman, “Artistic Survival:...
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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“Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the...”
– Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 96
Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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I certainly was not planning to embark on anything so long, I wanted to write books that did not exceed the capacity of my head, if I can put it that way, that I could skim through panoptically. But something like a wave began to get bigger and bigger and to engulf me, as though it was saying to me “Don’t be so cautious with your own life.” -Pascal Quignard, from Wandering Shadows...
Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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We go forward and backward, and there is no place. -Rosmarie Waldrop, from “Conversation 4: On Place,” Reluctant Gravities +
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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“Every vision of the past is a vision of the blind.”
– Jacques Roubaud, The Loop
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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When the sea subsides into utter calm, changing clouds caught in its clarity, then fishermen say the sea is thinking about itself.  -Keith Waldrop, from “Shipwreck in Haven, Part Four,” Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy +
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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