To my linguist friends: Do not work for Andovar Pte Ltd. They are having financial difficulties and haven’t paid me in 3-4 months.
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To my linguist friends: Do not work for Andovar Pte Ltd. They are having financial difficulties and haven’t paid me in 3-4 months.
Pursuing an idea in Fear and Trembling. What can I say—it’s Sunday.
Yeah, I often take notes. Will do!
If you can see them, these are the books I pulled forward from my parents’ shelves to keep. There are some wonderful reads in these hardcovers.
A book with punch! Goddamn.
The owner of my favorite bookstore just got in a DeLillo I don’t have, put it aside for me. Like got in touch out of the blue, just when I needed some good news. Get addicted to books and they’ll find you!
Just finished part II of On the Calculation of Volume. I read the last 30 pages in a fever that ends in chills. Amazing writing.
It’s on to one of these bad customers next…
The 18-year-old and I hit up the local habitat for humanity bookshop and came away loaded for bear. Walker and Kerouac are for the kid. I was reading Jack at about his age…
Over the past year, I’ve worked up to consistently reading 100 pages a day. It takes a lot of time to read the classics and to read in German, but if I pair these books well, I feel like I’m making progress on my list and in my library. It’s a good feeling, a feeling of avocation.
BF mudding walls in the guest room and I’m cruising Marketplace for bookshelves. The library must grow.
Enjoying a lap cat, a coffee, and a good read.
The stack I’m most focussed on, that I will take with me for a week away. Rorty is so quotable, so is Dos Passos. Very excited about High as the Horses’ Bridles by Scott Cheshire.
German reading this morning: Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos. “Na, kiekste Löcher in die Luft?” Northern German/Berlin dialect.
Also an ad for the Montague Book Mill…
We woke to a few fresh inches on the chicken coop, to add to the total tumult of snow. It’s gorgeous because I won’t have to shovel.
Not sure PKD is for me. Solvej Balle, can you do it again? I’m on page 50 and tending “yes.”
I used to avoid starting anything new before I’d finished a standing read. But, bottom line, reading is reading and reading is prime. I’ll never regret the half-hour I just spent with this book, which was akin to attending a talk or an exhibit. Really, I’m just trying to swim in an ocean of ideas.
The newsreels in Dos Passos’s The 42nd Parallel sound like fiddling with the radio dial.
Dipping into these this afternoon. A departure from everything else, a “lecture” in pages. @jeffsharlet.bsky.social
Latin review this morning before “class” with my dad and my son.
Damn it, I’m in love again.
The characters here! Muckrakers and shysters. The mix of historical and fictional, the racing prose, bits of song, headlines gathering steam…
March 1 and I’ve been a more consistent reader for a year or so. I wish I’d never left it.
Shit, I think I’m going to like this. There’s all this American bluster and life and death from the get-go. John Dos Passos’s The 42nd Parallel: such energy.
Recreating college
Possible pairings with Dos Passos’s The 42nd Parallel.
Facing a big read makes me want to race through something suspenseful, at the same time.
Prepping to read John Dos Passos.
Bookmark is a hand-written rejection note from Rita Bullwinkel at McSweeney’s.
Dos Passos’s grandfather immigrated to the U.S. from Portugal’s Madeira in the 1800s. Imagine ICE fucking that up for us.
“War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.” Don DeLillo, White Noise
Finishing White Noise tonight, then it’s one of these or Jenny Offill’s Department of Speculation from the library…
Taking a whiskey-maple tea on this dog hike. Taking a hot shower afterwards. Taking the end of this winter to the mat.