June 2012
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“I see you have books under your arm, brother. It is indeed a rare pleasure these days to come across somebody that still reads, brother.”
— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, 1962.
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May 2012
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Who is that girl from a dream?
I can scarcely remember
that vivid apparition, brown-haired and slender
a phantom in the night
a corpse to my conscious mind
the muse of dusk and dimly lit rooms
So familiar in the moonlight
in the dark she blooms and beckons
At dawn, a faint memory.
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It’s such a damn shame that I have no desire to read any of the assigned readings for my English class and instead want nothing more than to settle down with my neglected personal library to cranially ingest at full capacity.
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“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”
—Aldous Huxley
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Get Drunk
Tonight is the, but more importantly my celebracion de cinco de Mayo. And what more is it anyway, than a proclamation to exhort drunkenness? Taken literally or metaphorically, this madness is brilliance.
And thus,
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“…he retrieved the book from the stacks, returned to the third floor, then settled down in a green leather armchair in one of the smoking rooms. The bright May morning lurked outside like a temptation, a call to wander aimlessly in the air, but Quinn fought it off.”
— Paul Austen, City of Glass, 1985.
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“So this is where she lived! I smelled it, touched it with my fingers, walked through it with my feet. It was as I had imagined. This was her home. Blindfolded I could have acknowledged the place, for her odor possessed it, her fevered lost existence claimed it as part of a hopeless scheme. An apartment on Temple Street, and apartment in Los Angeles. She belonged to the rolling hills, the...
April 2012
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“All I want out of life is to be a monkey of moderate intelligence who wears a business suit. That’s why I’ve decided to transfer to business school.”
— Guenter
March 2012
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A Brief Interview with Hilarious Men
A conversation between Laika & the Cosmonauts and an interviewer about up-keeping a ramshackle, vintage bright green Italian-made electric Farfeeza organ from the ’60s.
I: “Well duct tape solves all problems, doesn’t it?”
L&C: “Also known as Jesus tape.”
I: “Is that what that’s called, because it performs miracles?”
L&C:...
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“I traveled far and wide through many...
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