March 2009
3 posts
“It’s true that good governments appreciate the holy indignation of the...”
– Michel Foucault, “Confronting Governments: Human Rights”
Dream Dumpage
Two nights ago, woke up just after I had discovered (written on a wall?) a four line or perhaps four couplet poem that was so intensely beautiful that it put me on the edge of tears. Came fully awake, the poem drifting away as I sought to hold on to the end, at least. Couldn’t, although I kept the sense of it. My guess now is that the dream logic imparted some impossibly few words with some...
“Look, man, we’d probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid...”
– David Foster Wallace, quoted in the wonderful article about his life and work in The New Yorker. [extreme spoiler warning applies. the article discusses both The Broom of the System’s and Infinite Jest’s plots at length, and includes the final lines from both novels. you have been...