The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. your dimness or its dim- ness, who’s to say? in the hush your heart sounds like a black cricket. – Charles Simic, from The World Doesn’t End I love the prose poetry of Charles Simic, especially those in The World Doesn’t End. … Continue reading
I wanted to continue a little bit on the book issues I brought up last week. In the original post on Kottke, one commenter brought up that the service which Tim Carmody and all the rest of us were thinking about already existed, and it’s called “the library.” I wrote this off as somewhat impractical, … Continue reading
I read Kottke a lot (as you know) and occasionally, when Mr. K needs a break from the site, Tim Carmody will occasionally fill in for him (does someone doing something twice constitute them doing it “occasionally”? if not, then fill in your own more appropriate term there). Over on Tim’s Twitter feed and also … Continue reading
