76 days, 3299 pages, 7797 footnotes, and 5 continents later... Time for some fiction!

My default livejournal icon is now out of date. The linen suit is now indigo.

PS Hot water dying is the secret to brilliant colors but also to shrunk sleeves.
PPS I've (somewhat) successfully let out the sleeves of said linen jacket using a needle and thread.

Screaming into a void.

1953 was another year in which Chinese New Year's Day fell on February 14th. To commemorate the coincidence, one of my favorite French poet/playwrights, Eugene Valene, composed a pair of short poems as double dactyls ( Read more... )

-Red silk bowtie with small white polkadots ( Read more... )

She granted herself a private viewing of the manuscripts and books, and had quite a shock when she came to the last item in the case, a copy of Un Cabinet d'amateur. The legend read:

HIS LAST NOVELAnn rushed to find Perec, to explain to him the difference between "latest" and "last" and to make him change the card. Perec did no like making ( Read more... )

Experimental Demonstration of the tomatotopic organization in the soprano. (Cantatrix sopranica L.)

Love is...somewhat akin to mania, a temporary condition of selfishness, a transient confusion of identity. It enables man to predicate of others who are his other selves, that which he is ashamed to say about his real self. I will suppose the beloved object to be ugly, stupid, vicious, perverse, selfish, low-minded, or the reverse; man finds it ( Read more... )

This LBJ trilogy1 is in no small way contributing to this year's seasonal depression2... But with only 130 more pages to go, We Shall Overcome!

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Now excuse me as I go scream into my pillow.

1As currently published.
2Why Oh Why did I start this thing at the end of October? Couldn't I have been sensible and tabled Caro until June or July?

Stupidest list ever: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/07/the-mostly-complete-annotated-and-essential-postmodern-reading-list.html