December 2010
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Aphorisms 17 - 26 December 2010
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She prided herself on being analytical, on being Apollonian, but she was still young and was unfamiliar with the contours of her character and she was far more interesting than she knew. For in her was a deep desire for the Dionysian urge, to be emotional, to be irrational, and although it had been hidden from her consciousness like an underground stream, it nourished her, and on her soul grew...
“James Wood writes: I have good reason to remember Frank Kermode’s collection of...”
– LRB · Memories of Frank Kermode
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Aphorisms 16 - 15 December 2010
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If you love her, who is the victim, you or her?
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Just because I let her doesn’t mean that she should have. Their’s no consent for a crime. Is there?
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Black people are evil too!
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He was a bad reviewer as he couldn’t pretend to have knowledge that he did not have. So he wrote for himself, there, he could be himself.
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Everytime you masturbate and cum, you lose a...
“But there is a problem with Munro’s portrait of the human world. How do these...”
– The Women | The New Republic
“Their families wear them down. Coastal, cosmopolitan glamour wears them down....”
– The New America | The New Republic
“What happens in the plot happens in the sentences; the place where the Bellovian...”
– The Whole Human Mess: On Saul Bellow | The Nation
“This is a special way of being afraid
No trick dispels. Religion used to try,...”
– Aubade - Philip Larkin
“Not until “Love Again” from 1979 did Larkin confront so nakedly the...”
– LETTERS TO MONICA by Philip Larkin reviewed by Alan Jenkins - TLS
“He married a woman to stop her getting away
Now she’s there all day,
...”
– Larkin: Self’s the man
