But there are things you read in college that you can never read again. You don’t have the attention span, you don’t really care anymore.
Ben Markovitz, the rest of our lives
It is so funny that it depends on what kind of phone you have. We had rotary til the end, and a party line for savings
Also peace loving
Reading and loving Updike letters
Since the release of “Love Story,” the series about John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy's marriage, many brands have jumped on the popularity of the show by mimicking some aspect of his image. "Most of these attempts are inaccurate; some of them are downright sad," our critic writes.
Throwing it back to when the 9 train still existed, the Q train was orange, and MetroCards were blue!
"...we are trapped with a berserk brontosaurus peddling vehement ignorance..."
– Tina Brown, on rumpled Trumpskin
tinabrown.substack.com/p/trumps-wil...
‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ star Motaz Malhees said he can’t go to the Oscars as a result of Trump’s travel ban on Palestinians.
So if you stay married it’s because you’ve accepted that this is what they’re like, and what your life with them is like, and you stop expecting them to do or give you things you know perfectly well they’re unlikely to do or give you. It’s like being a Knicks fan.
-Markovits The Rest of Our Lives
She won’t
Current mood
Egg color = chicken ear lobe color!
We took a terribly wrong turn around 1500, —-Andrew Miller
Still snowdrops and crocus in NY, bit more snow to some
It was difficult to remember what they had done before the television arrived. Had they talked more? Read more? Gone to bed earlier?
-The Land in Winter, Miller
…but I don’t want to learn anything. I know enough to make me nervous now.
-Updike, letters
“These days, I prefer books that contain something real, or at least something the author believed to be real. I don’t want to be bored by someone else’s imagination.”
-Lydia Davis
I don’t want to live in the present anymore, and I certainly don’t want to live in the future—it hurts my eyes just to look at what the world is becoming. So that only leaves the past, no matter its obscenities.” -Desai
Most stupid people are not harmless.
“If you keep your existence inside art, you will live wonderfully.
Just don’t put your nose out.” -Desai
She had studied in a liberal arts college renowned for dispensing an education so sophisticated as to be useless save for the cultivation of an eye divorced from need -Desai
an American degree was so frivolous that it was sheer madness. In her time in college, she studied Leopardi, the Yanomami Amazon tribe, Coltrane and Chekhov, Iran and the West, the philosophy of Hannah Arendt, ecology, creative writing, pottery, animal behavior, Dryden, Pope, and Swift -Desai
Cleaning a closet…
We do not need men like Proust and Joyce; men like this are a luxury, an added fillip that an abundant culture can produce only after the more basic literary need has been filled.
-Updike, letters
It is essential…Desai
Tiny concerns, -Desai
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