December 2009
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Dec 30th
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“Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (via crepusculoestelar)
Dec 28th
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Dec 23rd
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“The family is the cradle of the world’s misinformation. There must be something...”
– White Noise by Don Delillo (via smellslikesunshine)
Dec 23rd
Kirkus Reviews may have been annoying, but its... →
“Whereas Publishers Weekly often seems like a booster for the trade, and Booklist, another book industry magazine, usually manages to find something nice to say about even the most mediocre prose, Kirkus took no prisoners. On Dave Eggers’ bestselling and much-revered memoir, “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” Kirkus proclaimed: ‘It isn’t.’”
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
Dec 19th
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The Right Kind of Quiet →
“For a library to be successful, acoustic comfort in these open plans should follow three simple guidelines: add appropriate background noise levels, provide physical separation between known noise sources and noise-sensitive areas, and distribute sufficient sound-absorbing material in the space.” Somehow having read this article last year didn’t make the “white noise...
Dec 19th
My supervisor informed me that the “white noise people” came to adjust the sound levels in the library today.  I believe I live in a Don DeLillo novel.
Dec 18th
Dec 18th
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the...”
– Franz Kafka (via fuckyeahhappy) (via wahnbriefe) (via lotusohm) (via tiffkitti)
Dec 13th
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“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too...”
– Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes (via smellslikesunshine)
Dec 12th
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“There was nothing in reality that I could give her, so I told her instead about Nabokov’s ‘other world.’  I asked her if she had noticed how in most of Nabokov’s novels - Invitation to a a Beheading, Bend Sinister, Ada, Pnin - there was always the shadow of another world, one that was only attainable through fiction.  It is this world that prevents his heroes and...
Dec 11th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 4th
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Dec 4th
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 2nd
Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd