January 2010
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“Do you want to know what happiness is? Happiness is the absence of unpleasant...”
– William Vollman, Europe Central (2005)
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“But one thing’s sure: Inspector Clay is dead, murdered, and somebody’s...”
– ‘Detective’, Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
(via Wired)
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Am I dreaming or high?
“Daniels’s sole previous outing as director was the stupendously kitsch, lurid and eccentric gangster flick, Shadowboxer , about the incestuous relationship between a mother-and-son team of hired killers, played by Cuba Gooding Jr and Helen Mirren (it went straight to DVD in Britain).”
(Review of Precious, The Arts Desk)
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sarahbelfort:
‘Macerating bison’s one of the worst smells there is in taxidermy,’ he says with a devilish grin.
— David Schwendeman, former chief taxidermist at the American Museum of Natural History, as quoted in Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy by Melissa Milgrom.
The book will be published in March, but you can read a six-page excerpt on Amazon. Milgrom first wrote about Schwendeman in...
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“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of...”
– Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (via first-lines)
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Death Comes as the End
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“You know that in all tombs there is always a false door?” Renisenb stared. “Yes, of course.” “Well, people are like that too. They create a false door—to deceive. If they are conscious of weakness, of inefficiency, they make an imposing door of self-assertion, of bluster, of overwhelming authority—and, after a time, they get to believe in it themselves. They think, and...
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