April 2009
18 posts
“it’s always important to ask questions, and it’s important to ask...”
– roberto bolano, 2666.
“metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a...”
– roberto bolano, 2666.
“reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like...”
– roberto bolano, 2666.
“a bastard may have no imagination and then do one imaginative thing when you...”
– roberto bolano, 2666.
“I am the slowest writer of my entire generation…I sometimes think there must be...”
– Junot Diaz, via The Baltimore Sun (via thebronzemedal)
brain snacks →
free online yale video lectures for:
milton
the american novel since 1945
modern poetry
thank you, rachel!
i started reading 2666 by roberto bolano.
based on the weight of the book, it is going to take me approximately 2666 days to finish it because i’m going to develop back problems carrying it everywhere.
Recession Fuels Readers’ Escapist Urges →
“memory is like fiction; or else it’s fiction that’s like memory....”
– haruki murakami, the elephant vanishes.
“the dirty facades, the nameless crowds, the unremitting noise, the packed...”
– haruki murakami, the elephant vanishes.
“she seemed to consider things like age and family and income to be of the same a...”
– haruki murakami, the elephant vanishes.
“this is unfair, if i may say so. here i am, stripped to my underpants, while...”
– haruki murakami, the elephant vanishes.