February 2012
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unedited somethings briefly thrilled about, then...
1. There are moments during my day when I’m alone and being myself and laughing out loud at something that crosses my mind or listening to opera—of which it should be noted I have absolutely no real interest in, and just pick out at random according to how intense and deeply depressing it sounds—while heaving around a glass of wine like it’s the most cumbersome thing I...
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The real threats are artists who refuse to stop there—who move from confession, which describes a situation, to analysis, which seeks to explain it. If someone foolishly insists on making his—or her—life known, institutions have words for discrediting it. This candidate can’t be admitted. As Kraus declared in Video Green:
I think that “privacy” is to contemporary female art what “obscenity” was...
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opening line, or a life in summation:
It happened quickly and then less so until it gradually became nothing.
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“All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for...”
– Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
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five things to chew on.
1. “Can we love each other more?”
“Do you want to?”
“Of course I do.”
“How do we do that?”
“We have to stop thinking that the other person is always going to be here.”
“I never thought that…”
“Well, I did.”
2. When I was nineteen I sat on a beach sometime in the early hours of the morning when it was still dark out with a woman of indeterminate age who told me about her life with...