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The New Romantics: Percy Bysshe Shelley

September 18, 2014

Percy Bysshe Shelley         Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in Horsham, Sussex, England on August 4th 1792. He was the eldest …

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The New Romantics: George Gordon Byron

September 17, 2014

        At the beginning of the 19th century a new breed of poets emerged. These young lions, were endowed with capricious …

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A Dog’s Life

September 16, 2014

        When I was a boy, I was no different than most boys—I wanted a dog.         After all, a dog is …

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The Vanity

September 14, 2014

        In the evenings, she found her comfort in the cushion of a set stool.         Sitting before a vanity, wrapped within …

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Just say “Cheese!”

September 9, 2014

    Just say “Cheese!”          John! John! Come quick! Look at your son! He is so adorable!         In …

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California Dreamin’

September 7, 2014

        Cali was a cute little suffer girl from Santa Ana.         She was about this tall, had a sweet laugh, great …

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The Ghost & the Machine

September 5, 2014

Once upon a time there was a ghost, and he lived in your machine. BoOt… ! Whirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr— Bebooboopbeepboopbebeepboopbeepbeboopbeepbeep. Brrrrrip—klika-tic-tic—skreeeeech. Klic— …

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A & P

September 3, 2014

  after John Updike         Up until the year I finished middle school, I worked the soda-fountain of my father’s drugstore. …

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Humpty Dumpty the Suicidal Egg

August 30, 2014

        His crack against the wall, Humpty cowers precariously on the ledge.         Wanting to look his best when he takes the …

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“A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, some strain the story through their mesh of prejudice, some paint it with their own delight. A story must have some points of contact with the reader to make him feel at home in it. Only then can he accept wonders.” ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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Martin Heidegger

Inconspicuously compliant is the thing: the jug and the bench, the footbridge and the plow. But tree and pond, too, brook and hill, are things, each in its own way. Things, each thinging from time to time in its own way, are heron and roe, deer, horse and bull. Things, each thinging and each staying […]

Hélène Cixous

We must learn from things; we have everything to learn from them. How to let things make themselves known by themselves, before any translation…  — Hélène Cixous, Coming to Writing and Other Essays (Harvard University Press September 1, 1992) First published January 1, 1986.

Ray Brassier

        Hope is reactionary: it cocoons actuality in the gossamer of the tolerable, dulling the thirst for change.         Despair is revolutionary: it grinds the knife-edge of the intolerable against the whetstone of actuality, sparking the will to change.         Whoever tolerates the present will never risk everything to change it.         Only those who […]

Jacques Derrida

[A] point of pure passage: a language without discourse, a speech without sentence, without syntax, without parts, without grammar, a language of pure effusion, beyond the cry, but short of the hinge. — Jacques Derrida, The Derrida Reader: Writing Performance (University of Nebraska Press January 1, 1998)

Walt Whitman

And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful. — Walt Whitman, from “Song of Myself,” Leaves of Grass (Simon Schuster, August 1st 2006) Originally published July 4th 1855.

Pope John Paul II

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. ― Pope John Paul II

Maggie Nelson

Do not, however, make the mistake of thinking that all desire is yearning. ‘We love to contemplate blue, not because it advances to us, but because it draws us after it,’ wrote Goethe, and perhaps he is right. But I am not interested in longing to live in a world in which I already live. […]

Philippe Jaccottet

For things are what they are, earth and sky, cloud, furrows, undergrowth, stars; it is things alone which transfigure themselves, in no way are they symbols; they are the world we breathe… — Philippe Jaccottet, Landscapes for Absent Figures (Gallimard December 18, 1997) First published January 1, 1970. 

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