November 2011
5 posts
Today is shaping up to be an all-around You Have to Be Kidding Me kind of day, but when you start the morning standing next to someone on the F train who is not only also reading Infinite Jest, but is on the exact same page—the exact same footnote—as you…well, how do you expect the rest of the day to go?
I mean. Really.
“…in our desire to think great things about our IT ‘cloud’,...”
– Simon Ings on The Brain is Wider Than the Sky: Why Simple Solutions Don’t Work in a Complex World by Bryan Appleyard in the Guardian
Reversible Souls
Allow me a banality for a second: Things are rarely what they seem.
While I’m still working on substantial revisions on the novel, I started research for a new project. “Project.” Sparing the details for now, I ran across someone who was too fascinating not to talk to, despite it not being the right time to get myself engrossed in something else. But I followed my instincts and...
“Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose...”
– Infine Jest by David Foster Wallace
(Is it okay to start dreaming again?) (When do I know, exactly?)