hardly anyone still reads nowadays. people make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.
- j. franzen 'exurban'
― doug ellin (Lamp), Friday, 12 June 2015 02:49 (eleven years ago)
the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse that feels a flea, the base-/ball fan, the statistician —/nor is it valid/ to discriminate against “business documents and/ school-books; all these phenomena are important
- f. fukuyama - 'sublime modernity'
― doug ellin (Lamp), Friday, 12 June 2015 02:51 (eleven years ago)
my favorite pokemon is psyduck
- d. delillo, 'cosmopolis'
― doug ellin (Lamp), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 20:00 (eleven years ago)
being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation
- j. galassi, 'mordant'
― doug ellin (Lamp), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 20:03 (eleven years ago)