“Love, she believed, must come suddenly, with great thunderclaps and bolts of lightning, — a hurricane from heaven that drops down on your life, overturns it, tears away your will like a leaf, and carries your whole heart off with it into the abyss. She did not know that the rain forms lakes on the terraces of houses when the drainpipes are blocked, and thus she would have lived on feeling quite safe, had she not suddenly discovered the crack in the wall.”
— Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, p. 87 (Lydia Davis translation)
2:06 am • 12 May 2013 • 2 notes
every story in the history of the universe is better with:
- a female protagonist
- lesbians
even better with a female protagonist who is a lesbian
(Source: deadchester, via isadoradandy)
11:24 am • 16 April 2013 • 5,023 notes
lookuplookup:
unbornwhiskey:
Creamed chicken specials, plates of fried vegetables, cheese sandwiches with soup. It was hard to think of all the ways you’d never come through for people, closed them out, never loved them, and still order lunch.
Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital is one of the few truly perfect novels I’ve read. Go read it now.
4:17 pm • 9 April 2013 • 44 notes
“Gentrified happiness is often available to us in return for collusion with injustice. We go along with it, usually, because of the privilege of dominance, which is the privilege not to notice how our way of living affects less powerful people. Sometimes we do know that certain happiness exists at the expense of other human beings, but because we’re not as smart as we think we are, we decide that this is the only way we can survive.”
— Schulman, Sarah (2012-01-07). The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination (Kindle Locations 2266-2269). University of California Press. Kindle Edition.
2:36 pm • 9 April 2013 • 16 notes
“Gentrified thinking is like the bourgeois version of Christian fundamentalism, a huge, unconscious conspiracy of homogenous patterns with no awareness about its own freakishness.”
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Schulman, Sarah (2012-01-07). The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination (Kindle Locations 721-722). University of California Press. Kindle Edition.
THIS BOOK, guys. THIS BOOK.
1:32 am • 9 April 2013 • 2 notes
“In other words, some ideas have to be formally replicated, instead of being described. They have to be evoked. This is especially true when talking about urban experience. What music best evokes life in cities? Improvisational jazz, real rock and roll, and rap/hip-hop/sampling. It’s the clash of systems that produces the authentic representation of the complex whole.”
— Schulman, Sarah (2012-01-07). The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination (Kindle Locations 287-289). University of California Press. Kindle Edition.
12:46 am • 9 April 2013 • 1 note
othermike:
communalperversion:
Sarah Schulman, NYC, 1988, photographed by Robert Giard for the “Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers” series (via emilygould)
i am actually crying over these serious & gorgeous portraits of queer writers in the 1980s, many of whom have been super fucking inspiring to me!! stay tuned, more queued and coming soon
<3 <3 <3
6:49 pm • 7 April 2013 • 97 notes
othermike:
this weird day is all about staying in bed and thinking about what a good drummer Janet Weiss is
9:16 pm • 31 March 2013 • 254 notes
“These are the days that must happen to you.”
— Song of the Open Road, Walt Whitman. (via janale)
(via oldtobegin)
10:29 pm • 26 March 2013 • 75 notes
