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Archive for June, 2009
Le Bateau Ivre (Aphorisms for a Sunny Thursday)
Without misanthropy there can be no certainty. * * * Excellence is a result of making a virtue of necessity; mediocrity, of making a necessity of virtue. * * * The only burden one bears is that of his own potential. Related Posts:I Peggior Fabbri: Millenial Versifiers and the Decline of PoetrySuper-Surprise Me: Boston University [...]
Rhyme Scheme: For Poets Praise Is Profit in the Attention Economy
In a commentary in the May 27 edition of The London Times, Robert Cole takes pains to make a point many would consider obvious: “No one should write poetry for money,” he writes: “No one can expect to make any money either.” Cole doesn’t reserve this admonition for the many unknown versifiers scribbling madly to [...]
GAD and Man at Yale: Haun Saussy on the Didactics of Divorce
Marriage, which in modern times has become little more than a bathetic spectacle in service to threadbare bourgeois norms, the good professor has reinvested with positive utility, re-imagining it as the necessary prerequisite to an edifying divorce.
Smile-alectical Reasoning: Zappos Founder Tony Hsieh's Happiness Revolution
Via Calculated Risk comes this graphic, which appeared in The New York Times way back in October 2008. Entitled “The Fall of the Mall,” its color-coded assessment of the current recession’s effect on mall stores paints a stark picture of consumer preferences. Calculated Risk summarizes the information thusly: The best performers are a dollar store, [...]
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