February 2012
4 posts
“Dear Friedrich, the world’s still false, cruel and beautiful…
...”
– Charles Simic - The world doesn’t end
via Um túnel no fim da luz: Caro Friedrich
“The engines of her pain, the tools
That shaped her sorrow, rocks and pools,...”
– “Ruth”, Wordsworth
January 2012
7 posts
““Living is different. One doesn’t gather up sights in quite the same...”
– Don DeLillo, The Names
“And what of narrative flow? There is still movement, but in hyperspace’s...”
– Texto de 1992 do Robert Coover sobre narrativas hipertextuais, aqui
“How much happier the wide-awake indolents, the monarchs among men, the rich...”
– Nabokov, Pale Fire
“On Kafka’s side of the Tower of Babel, the heavens, the imperial palace,...”
– Laurence A. Rickels, Aberrations of Mourning
December 2011
8 posts
“Bore that I am, I mentioned R. H. Blyth’s definition of sentimentality:...”
– Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters - Salinger
“There will be not a grain left bearing my marks, just as my mother has now,...”
– Michael K, Coetzee
“A: But I love my irony.
Q: Does it give you pleasure?
A: A poor … A...”
– d. barthelme
muitas exclamações
“Fiction after Joyce seems to have devoted itself to propaganda, to novels of...”
– donald barthelme
gente essa última frase
“It went on for a month. Those who had taken it for a cosmic sign cringed beneath...”
– “Against the Day” - Thomas Pynchon (Pynchon está narrando a reação dos habitantes que moravam próximo ao local onde ocorreu o chamado “Evento de Tunguska”, misteriosa queda de um objeto celeste que mudou a cor do céu por uns dias.) (Para mim, representa uma das passagens mais bonitas já escritas por...
“I started out very quiet and beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and beat Mr....”
– Ernest Hemingway (via anna-karenina-x)
November 2011
8 posts
“E assim Sabbath passava o tempo, fingindo pensar sem pontuação, do jeito que J....”
– Philip Roth, O Teatro de Sabbath
“The hoary debate over analog vs. digital recording usually grinds through its...”
– nossa, muito boa essa diferenciação ONTOLÓGICA entre analógico e digital. faz pensar no dia em que o gmail crashar de vez. (tirado dum perfil da Joanna Newsom)
“She watches the wipers wagging back and forth. ‘A better explanation,’ she says,...”
– Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello (no capítulo The Lives of Animals)
October 2011
14 posts
“Agora, um ano depois de seu sepultamento, graças à misteriosa ação da memória...”
– Beckett sobre Proust [sobre ele mesmo também, né] de novo.
“Por seu “impressionismo”, refiro-me a seu relato não-lógico de...”
– Samuel Beckett - Proust Cada parágrafo deste caraglio de livro é mais citável que o outro.
Rough Transcript of Franzen, on "The Unreliable...
Remnick: Well, I was, I was fascinated to hear... that there are some people in this world who feel that it's o-- that to have a kind of hyper-postmodern view of non-fiction/fiction questions, that it's all writing, and that questions of fact, facticity and, well, that's kind of square and old-fashioned, and it's okay that Kapuscinski does what Kapuscinski does and kind of makes this up because it's really just a metaphor for uh, Poland itself. Um, and other writers that one could name who have a different view of fact and fiction... You're pretty strict about the dividing line. You see, you think that somebody who's --
Franzen (interjecting): [unintelligible]
Remnick: -- allegedly writing non-fiction and cheats it --
Franzen: Yeah.
Remnick: -- is cheating the reader, is somehow, umm, in a way that should be kind of like, uh, admitting a false --
Franzen: David and I disagreed on that.
Remnick: David?
Franzen: Dave Wallace, yeah.
Remnick: So Wallace felt well --
Franzen: Yeah, cause he --
Remnick: He said it was okay to make up dialogue on a cruise ship?
Franzen: For instance, yeah. Uhhmmm...
Remnick: I'm heartbroken to hear it.
Franzen: I know, I know. No, those things didn't actually happen. Umm, you notice he never published any non-fiction in your magazine.
Remnick: Not for want of trying but that's another matter, but but...
Franzen: He would have had to, maybe he...
Remnick: He would have fell before the fact-checkers.
Franzen: I think the fact-checkers... and to me the uh fact-checkers, we, uh, I'm so afraid of fact checkers.
Remnick: Good. [laughs]
Franzen: But that's, you know, that's kind of like the boundary lines in tennis. That was a great shot, only problem was it was two feet behind the baseline. I will have crushed...
Remnick: But David called it in.
Franzen: Well yeah, I mean... I love that cruise ship piece of Dave's so I'm not, I'm not... it was uh, yeah, two somewhat different approaches.
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“É aterrador como as pessoas são abandonadas, com toda a naturalidade e com a...”
– “O homem sentimental”, Javier Marías
September 2011
9 posts
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Watchandreisp:
Screen Test: Susan Sontag
pra quem não acredita que a sontag já foi tremenda gatinha
The Plot Against The Giant
First Girl When this yokel comes maundering, Whetting his hacker, I shall run before him, Diffusing the civilest odors Out of geraniums and unsmelled flowers. It will check him. Second Girl I shall run before him, Arching cloths besprinkled with colors As small as fish-eggs. The threads Will abash him. Third Girl Oh, la…le pauvre! I shall run before him, With a curious puffing. He will bend...
“It being the painting of this very house, that I am talking about, and which...”
– Wittgenstein’s Mistress
“What these Bloomington ladies are, or start to seem to me, is innocent. There is...”
– DFW sobre o 11 de setembro,
Consider the Lobister
“Although what I have basically been doing about the rain is ignoring it.
How I...”
– Wittgenstein’s Mistress
“Diana Abbott would instead describe her mother coming to sit down, with her...”
– Benjamin Kunkel in n+1
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