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Gillian Welch in the morning for what ails you.

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Must it sound so eerie.

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Among all the imaginary literature courses I daydream of teaching, one of them has always been a class of nothing but memoirs from the children of famous authors.

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If ever I’m going to want a hardback collected works of, it’ll be Annie Ernaux.

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Night.

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New-to-read for my work stack - Julia Alekseyeva’s “Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s”.

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Tonight’s rabbit hole: Diane Luckey AKA Q Lazzarus AKA singer of “Goodbye Horses” from THAT scene in The Silence of the Lambs, having a documentary made about her by Eva Aridjis and a compilation album released, a few years after she died in 2022.

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#NowWatching - a documentary on Tanaquil Le Clerq.

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Whatever became of Small Press Distribution shutting down and screwing everyone over and all their remaining inventory stock just sitting there?

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Kickstarter rewards for the Farscape campaign arrived today. Probably the one show I’ve rewatched more than any other.

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Are you building something?

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Bound from birth to certitudes of the contemporary, an amnesiac tumbles through a century of vagaries, neglectful of the Self. Patient, the marble garden.

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Unintentional Composition

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"The archives are under this very building, and this building runs deep.” Nathan Englander | The Ministry Of Special Cases | #archives

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"He is baring his soul, which he does rarely. Also, he’s in the midst of cataloging another small-h holocaust site, adding it to his archives. It is clear he would appreciate some fucking solemnity here." Neal Stephenson | Cryptonomicon | #archives

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"How much more perfect that unhistory would be, second time around, when he could construct the evidence not only from fragments in archives, not from the cross-reference of misunderstood documents, but could add to those planted sources..." China Mieville | The City And The City | #archives

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“Hey there, there's such tender wolves 'round town tonight / 'Round the town tonight”

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"It may be that the plans are still stored in the archives, but there is no one who is able to decipher them." Magdalena Tulli | Dreams And Stones | #archives

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"...the target had a feeling of being photographed by a camera whose aim could not miss, which sucked him up, swallowed him, developed him, and then put him away for good in an archive that would cease to exist only when the camera died." Cees Nooteboom | Rituals | #archives

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Idolatry of the damned.

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"The dispute was, finally, ended by a fire in the archives that destroyed the minutes of the proceedings; since none of the august members of the Plenum could recall what position they had taken on the issue, the whole matter was dropped." Stanislaw Lem | Memoirs Of A Space Traveler | #archives

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"This complete clearing up was tacitly set for Saint Never-Plus-One’s Day, when all the files that are still open rise up from the graves of the archives." Robert Musil | The Man Without Qualities v02 | #archives

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Insular rabbit holes of misconstrued reality.

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A handful of books I’m attempting to finish or focus on this year. One set falls under “reading for pleasure” and the other set falls under “trying to better understand some folks close to me”.

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Impending reads - need to finish Anna Tsing’s “The Mushroom at the End of the World” and then begin Maja Lunde’s “The History of Bees” for my virtual book club.

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Next up on the reading list - Jeff VanderMeer’s new Southern Reach novel “Absolution”.

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"She was a dull, plain child. I wonder what became of her. Nothing. She is still a dull, plain child in my archives. That's the way she stops." Joseph Heller | Something Happened | #archives

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"She had come to look for Vander’s past, following his trail along the shelves of public archives, libraries, university records; the farther she travelled the fainter the traces of him became, as if a broom had brushed away his tracks." John Banville | Shroud | #archives

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"Some M.I.T.s are compulsive about taping the shows and then listening to the musics again and trying to track them down in stores and college archives..." David Foster Wallace | Infinite Jest | #archives

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"She has not contacted the Mormon Archive in Salt Lake City and has no plans to do so. She’s sent off no letters of inquiry." Carol Shields | The Stone Diaries | #archives

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My copy of Neko Case’s memoir arrived today. Will be my weekend read.

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"His fingerprints cancel blank stamps in that archive for letters with doomed addresses, each house buried or empty." Agha Shahid Ali | The Veiled Suite | #archives

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"Professore Svegli was in the factory archives surrounded by documents written on ancient paper and parchment. 'Your ancestor’s records,' he greeted them, 'are as hard to track down as the man himself was.'" Thomas Pynchon | Against The Day | #archives

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"A wealthy American couple, Horace and Rose Johnson, had bought it and were turning it into a great archive of art. They interviewed me twice and then took me on as a translator—of correspondence as well as for research and cataloguing." Michael Ondaatje | The Cat's Table | #archives

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"The Curator sends FBI memos concerning the President’s brain, which has been missing from the National Archives for over twenty years." Don DeLillo | Libra | #archives

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"Some will die on the road overwhelmed by the first snows of winter. Some few may even die fighting with pitchforks. After which the barbarians will wipe their backsides on the town archives. To the last we will have learned nothing." J.M. Coetzee | Waiting For The Barbarians | #archives

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"Radio, television, the telephone are exclusively methods of achievement; motion pictures, photography, the phonograph—authentic archives—are methods of achievement and retention." Adolfo Bioy Casares | The Invention Of Morel | #archives

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"Are great ideas real? The philosophers would have us believe so. Of course, I have had great ideas in my time, but somehow – do not record this, Paul, I am not certain it is for the archive – somehow, sometimes I wonder how real they were." Julian Barnes | England, England | #archives

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Ice block.

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"And yet even in the archives, where outrageous behavior was more easily accommodated, Mrs. Gottlieb’s bouts of erratic and pragmatic activity persisted in equal measure." Roberto Bolaño | 2666 | #archives

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"Every so often he froze frames; by now he had a small archive of them. Sometimes he’d print them out and give a copy to Jimmy. It could be dangerous – it could leave a footprint for anyone who might manage to trace a way through the labyrinth..." Margaret Atwood | Oryx And Crake | #archives

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"The last ones had turned up too recently, and not one person had taken it upon himself to travel the whole circuit of archives and museums around the world. If I managed to carry out my plan, I would be the first one." Paul Auster | The Book Of Illusions | #archives

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In heaven, everything is fine.

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A whimpering murmuration of inchoate prostrations before the engulfing wrath of the great aggrandizer.

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