une fadeur exquise

Reminded

nobody@vox.com(Zach) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:14:46 -0800

Over break I took a trip to misery. and, all in all, it was a grand time -- I could not have hoped for better. Amongst the curious number of curious sensations I felt was a reification of a dream that had slept more than dreamed in my head for man...

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A Traveling Moment

nobody@vox.com(Zach) — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:56:18 -0800

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My Sweet Love Ain't Around

nobody@vox.com(Zach) — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:48:29 -0800

Somehow, I did the execrable thing of allowing this song come into my head, tonight. Damnable fool that I am, I'll post it as a reminder to myself not to make the same mistake next year.

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Reel Around the Fountain

nobody@vox.com(Zach) — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:07:46 -0800

At a few different points it's like the camera is asking, "Where is this wondrous sound coming from?" and nosing around it like a dog. Ah, the Smiths.

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Character & Happiness

nobody@vox.com(Zach) — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:17:50 -0800

I was enjoying The Life of Henry Brulard, by Stendhal, the other evening, and I came across a passage that seemed to me to be a curious synthesis of Aristotle's & Kant's notions of happiness (mentioned in the footnote of the Nicomachean post). In ...

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Can't Make A Sound

nobody@vox.com(Zach) — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:06:59 -0800

It sounds so good live.

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Walter Pater

nobody@vox.com(Zach) — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:39:48 -0800

I spent my evening finishing Walter Pater's Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, instead of working on my final essay for the semester -- an expansion of my as of yet unveiled ;) Jacob's Room essay, and I think it was the wiser choice. I'd like...

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Loveless

nobody@vox.com(Zach) — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:48:45 -0800

I blew my speakers a few weeks ago. I still use 'em. they crackle, they groan, and sometimes they sound okay. I discovered that one record was completely unaffected by the crushed cones, no matter how far past 12 o'clock I went. It was this recor...

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The Broken Tower, by Hart Crane

nobody@vox.com(Zach) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:30:00 -0800

The bell-rope that gathers God at dawn Dispatches me as though I dropped down the knell Of a spent day - to wander the cathedral lawn From pit to crucifix, feet chill on steps from hell. Have you not heard, have you not seen that corps Of ...

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Ramble, Ramble

nobody@vox.com(Zach) — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:35:57 -0800

A well informed/educated friend of mine in Vermont mentioned to me the other day that one of the more obscure but perhaps pivotal points in the dems race is the fact that Clinton and Obama talk about the middle class and Edwards talks about the po...

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