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No R
… repetitions of themselves. The gang leader has a heart-to-heart with his dead Ma in the back yard after dark, and the brains of the operation feeds nickels into the jukebox so he can watch a nubile girl jitterbug with a boy her own age. Exhibitionists in gaudy undergarments perform for laid-up photographers …
Read MoreRites of Passage
… born—a man I was always told I resembled—Emily kept singling me out with glances, wistfully saying her dead brother’s name out loud, and then feeding me elaborate meals. It was an arrangement we both accepted immediately. Long after everyone else got full, I kept taking her up on her offers of coffee …
Read MoreCraft
… 2011
With the help of the janitor he screwed on to the side of the desk a pencil sharpener—that highly satisfying, highly philosophical instrument that goes ticonderoga-ticonderoga, feeding on the yellow finish and sweet wood, and ends up in a kind of soundlessly spinning ethereal void as we all must.
—Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin,
Arachne’s Cobweb
… eat him instead.
Our house spider makes pear-shaped egg sacks, which are plainly visible in her web. Each contains about 600 eggs. When spiderlings hatch they feed on the unhatched eggs and then balloon away, airborne on their first thread of silk. They drop to somewhere and begin spinning a web of their own …
Looking Up and Down
… box, what would you write?
Weeds again! Hahaha. LOL.
Yesterday I went on a field trip to the real world—my back yard. I went out to feed my worms, hoping to see a slug or two, since I’ve been reading David George Gordon’s engaging Secret World of Slugs and Snails: Life in …
Tune Out, Turn Off
… the thread of discussion in the classroom, which only serves to reinforce the distractedness that sent them out of the room to begin with. This is a feedback loop that is bound to have an effect on how teachers teach.
Many of McLuhan’s disciples appended a moral charge to his views, predicting dire consequences …
At Large and At Small: The Row to Zanzibar
… and we simply couldn’t afford the Encyclopædia Britannica. When my mother went to the A&P on Friday nights, it was with twenty-five dollars to feed the four of us for a week. I cherish her for carrying home those twenty-two volumes. Neither she nor my father had completed high school, though …
Read MoreTeaching and Mental Illness
… not teachers? In teaching, the audience is more intimate, the performances more frequent, and the material more associated with the performer (no one writes our scripts). Moreover, feedback is both more continual and more vocal than in a theatrical performance. Actor friends have described what it feels like to bomb on stage, but can this …
Read MoreCrazy Enough to Care
… and emetics—only as a last resort, instead emphasizing such new ideas as exercise therapy, pet therapy, and occupational therapy. To calm maniacs down, Samuel Tuke recommended feeding them meat, cheese, bread, and beer until they fell asleep. But the most important element of care was friendship. “The attendant on the insane ought sedulously to …
Read More@FranzKafka
… don’t like it, who aren’t good at it, who feel it saps their energy? (Beethoven’s website? Van Gogh’s Facebook page? Kafka’s Twitter feed?) There’s something to be said for agents and managers and publishers and record labels, despite their drain upon the artist’s purse and the artist’s …
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