Poems should echo and re-echo against each other. They should create resonances. They cannot live alone any more than we can.
— Jack Spicer
Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough.
— Jeanette Winterson
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How was this not on my vacation itinerary!!?!! Now I need to go back to England just to see this.
so, you ask, why am i telling you a story without a great ending? because, as in all great stories, the end is never where you expect it to be.
— rabih alameddine, the hakawati. (via paperbackgirl)
here’s a very pretty picture of the royal observatory, in honor of me having to sit here and think about greenwich. (via here)
This was one of my favorite stops in London.
Just had to explain the difference between being in an awkward situation and being the awkward person in a situation. Luckily for me I have an inexhaustible supply of personal anecdotes to demonstrate both of these.
In one way or another, we’re all anchored to the book. A library is a metaphor for human beings or what’s best about human beings, the same way a concentration camp can be a metaphor for what is worst about them. A library is total generosity.
— Roberto Bolano
Rhett Miller at Housing Works Bookstore last night, performing the Pogues’ Fairytale of New York with opening act Jill Hennessy.
Rhett played a terrifically long set, which since he was playing in a bookstore consisted only of songs that mentioned books or writing. The best moment was him telling the crowd he wouldn’t insult their intelligence by assuming they didn’t know which writer’s work influenced Rollerskate Skinny, and then mid-song deciding to insert “it was Salinger” between lines of the first verse. Hennessy’s set was surprisingly decent, although after every song instead of clapping I wanted to make that Law & Order scene transition noise.
The Olympic flame is given multiple seats on its flight from Athens to Canada. Do you think the flame enjoyed the in-flight movie?
Via the Big Picture
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James Nord - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
i covered my first christmas song
This is terrific.
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