February 2012
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“I merely put [the date] pro forma, for there is no such thing as time and space,...”
– Keats, on putting the date on a letter to his brother.
January 2012
4 posts
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“My daughter will be frank, neither promiscuous nor childless: those two things...”
– Ryder, Djuna Barnes
December 2011
15 posts
“I’d like to believe that, much like the infamous “Carolyn Keene”, Harold Bloom...”
– Kara Vanderbijl on This Recording
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November 2011
17 posts
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“& does it matter
how many metaphors
reach out to you
when the sun
goes...”
– Jayne Cortez, from “Poetry”
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“And as no man knows the ubicity of his tumulus nor to what processes we shall...”
– James Joyce, Ulysses
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Goodbye to All That →
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October 2011
14 posts
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“Is it true what they say about Los Angeles, that Los Angeles is erratic,
That...”
– Ogden Nash. LAT’s Christopher Hawthorne quoted a line from Nash for his presentation at the Los Angeles Archives Bazaar. You can read the quote in Carey McWilliams’ book “Southern California: An Island on the Land” (via lahistory)
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“Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the...”
– Sir Philip Sidney, From The Defense of Poesy
