Emma Bovary, Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
She was pale all over, white as a sheet; the skin of her nose was drawn at the nostrils, her eyes looked at you vaguely. After discovering three grey hairs on her temples, she talked much of her old age…Her eyelids seemed chiseled expressly for her long amorous looks in which the pupil disappeared, while a strong inspiration expanded her delicate nostrils and raised the fleshy corner of her lips, shaded in the light by a little black down.
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[Image: Still from an episode of Degrassi Junior High showing Liz and Spike looking toward the left side of the frame at Joey with amusement.]
Pretty much watching episodes of DJH for the sole purpose of seeing these two fierce grrls together.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvv4edDIyn1qj2zz3o1_500.png)
[Image: Still from an episode of Degrassi Junior High showing Liz and Spike looking toward the left side of the frame at Joey with amusement.]
Pretty much watching episodes of DJH for the sole purpose of seeing these two fierce grrls together.
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The film tells five different stories about women who have developed psychoses. It consists of five episodes each telling the story of one woman. In the first a woman prefers to stay underneath her bed because of the imaginary killers hunting around her. In the second a teenage girl becomes the assistant of UFOs controlling sounds heard on earth. In the third episode a woman crawls over a bridge because things have become unstable due to the emergence of past events. The fourth part depicts how anger takes the form of a wind in a woman’s apartment. In the last episode a woman starts to hear the sounds of other places, and shuts out all images by covering the windows of her house so as to be able to be in the space where the sounds are. The script links the episodes together by using various spaces and surroundings, and through the treatment of images.
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Below is the second excerpt from my interview with Joan Didion. She was in a hotel in Washington; I was in Toronto. The entire interview will be posted on The Believer website in a few weeks, while further excerpts will posted here. Previous excerpt. - Sheila Heti
BLVR: You have a line in The White Album whereyou say, “I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic, believing that salvation lay in extreme and doomed commitments.”
JD: Right.
BLVR: I wonder if you consider marriage or motherhood, or even writing—
JD: I did consider marriage and motherhood extreme and doomed commitments. Not out of any experience of them as such, but it was simply the way I looked at things.
BLVR: And having experienced motherhood and marriage, do you still see them as extreme and doomed commitments?
JD: No, I don’t. I mean, not—I don’t. I see them as, well, certainly they were for me a kind of salvation.
BLVR: Salvation from what?
JD: From a loneliness, an aloneness.
BLVR: Because the relationship was so intimate, or just the fact of a marriage?
JD: Just having another person, answering to another person, was very—it was novel to me, and it turned out to be [sly smile audible] kind of great.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly298h9Ssf1qzh8wko1_500.jpg)
Below is the second excerpt from my interview with Joan Didion. She was in a hotel in Washington; I was in Toronto. The entire interview will be posted on The Believer website in a few weeks, while further excerpts will posted here. Previous excerpt. - Sheila Heti
BLVR: You have a line in The White Album whereyou say, “I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic, believing that salvation lay in extreme and doomed commitments.”
JD: Right.
BLVR: I wonder if you consider marriage or motherhood, or even writing—
JD: I did consider marriage and motherhood extreme and doomed commitments. Not out of any experience of them as such, but it was simply the way I looked at things.
BLVR: And having experienced motherhood and marriage, do you still see them as extreme and doomed commitments?
JD: No, I don’t. I mean, not—I don’t. I see them as, well, certainly they were for me a kind of salvation.
BLVR: Salvation from what?
JD: From a loneliness, an aloneness.
BLVR: Because the relationship was so intimate, or just the fact of a marriage?
JD: Just having another person, answering to another person, was very—it was novel to me, and it turned out to be [sly smile audible] kind of great.
Don’t look up.
Professor Smith discusses the nature and scope of “political philosophy.” The oldest of the social sciences, the study of political philosophy must begin with the works of Plato and Aristotle, and examine in depth the fundamental concepts and categories of the study of politics. The questions “which regimes are best?” and “what constitutes good citizenship?” are posed and discussed in the context of Plato’s Apology.
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going…
(Source: New York Magazine)
After I heard It’s a Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
played softly by an accordion quartet
through the ceiling speakers at the Springdale Shopping Mall,
I understood there’s nothing
we can’t pluck the stinger from,nothing we can’t turn into a soft drink flavor or a t-shirt.
Even serenity can…
Frank Porter Graham Lecture 2011 with David Simon
I came across David Poolman’s work above and I love it.
I still don’t know how something I scribbled in a hurry at 3am got so many notes in the space of a day? Shakespeare is clearly too awesome. I spelt “bated” wrong, awk :) Someone said this looks like a serial killer’s notebook, which made me laugh a lot. They’re not wrong, I’ve been a sleep deprived zombie lately.
George Kuchar & Guy Maddin in Conversation (WNDX 2010)
Say that a spider with a death’s-head
crawls into your bed
and offers to make love.
How explain
that you are done with love?
And what of death?
Poem, don’t be so strange.
Excerpt from Michael Palmer’s Thread (New Directions, 2011)
Review of Thread by Jordan Davis
things I like: photos, writing, videos, links
Kathryn Mockler
is a writer and filmmaker and co-founder/editor of the literary journal The Rusty Toque.
Books
The Saddest Place on Earth (DC Books, 2012)
Onion Man (Tightrope Books, 2011)
Day four
I’m going to ramble incoherently today.
New York Magazine published this...
Lather Rinse. Repeat.
