author of Walkman (Penguin) and other books; associate professor of English Free Palestine Rock chalk https://xitter.cf/t.co/nSfHcVdjiu…
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De Man says in his essay on Shelley, "Forgetting is a highly erotic experience." In college I might have thought that sentence was cool & struggled to understand what he meant. Now I just said out loud, "Oh come on"
When I was I college I walked into a parking meter because I was reading while walking, & these girls laughed at me. But today I tripped over a rock & looked around to see if I had embarrassed myself, but everyone was looking at their phone. Progress.
one of the few pleasures of middle age is learning that music you dismissed in youth as lame is actually pretty great
Select all images with Burning Man heatstroke victims. Select all images with Courtney Love's mascara. Select all images with people you have met in dreams. Select all images with the sense of futility that comes from doing anything at all in a darkening world
They could just take you up yonder, honey
You're already wild and blue
RIP John Anderson, whom even the Mekons loved
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the Elizabeth Holmes movie is just the latest in a string of cultural detritus that try to find something interesting to say about these vacuous grifters, but they're "only capital personified," as Marx wrote; their souls "are the souls of capital"
This textual note to Donne’s “The Prohibition” is a little avant-garde prose poem, shades of Gertrude Stein
