December 2011
12 posts
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“Hipsters can logically be compared to marketers: they take whatever they can...”
– Oakes, op. cit., 203-04
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“The truth is that the classics are by definition in decline; even in what we now...”
– Mary Beard, Do the Classics Have a Future? New York Review of Books, Jan. 12, 2012
“When someone used to make a joke that referred to some pop-cultural ephemera -...”
– The extra chortle of recognition, Just North of Something Important, Dec. 21, 2011
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“The fundamental fact of human sexuality is the back and forth between the...”
– Foucault on S&M, prefigured by some eighty years. Count Harry Kessler. (via)
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Sleeve-Rolling and Solipsism—Downhill Both Ways →
“Nobody was paying any attention,” the author intones. But he was. I almost want to say that that suborns sleeve-rolling.
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“…’The Perfect Kiss’ makes no attempt to hide what a limited...”
– On New Order’s Low-Life. Garry Mulholland, Fear of Music: The 261 Greatest Albums since Punk and Disco (2006; London: Orion, 2007), 176.
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“Endlessly, time-honoured irritant,
A bubble is restively forming at your tip....”
– Philip Larkin, “Dry-Point” (1950), in Collected Poems, ed. Anthony Thwaite (London: Marvell Press and Faber and Faber, 1988), 36-37. (First published in his XX Poems [1951] as the second of “Two Portraits of Sex” under the title “Etching.”)
“The English are great collectors and curators of culture, perhaps more than any...”
– A.A. Gill, The Angry Island: Hunting the English (2005; New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008), 6.
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“My tendency is, if I see something interesting, to not take a picture of it, but...”
– Stephen Shore (via magnificentruin) 