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the significance doesn’t matter. The historical significance deadens it. Across those unbridgeable distances—between bird and painter, painting and viewer—I hear only too well what’s being said to me, a psst from an alleyway as Hobie put it, across four hundred years of time, and it’s really very personal and specific. It’s there in the light-rinse
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The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground: A Library of America Special Publication
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the scalp-crackling gust of Phoenix heat,
David Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest
wildly seductive
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
attractive people are shown having a near-illegally good time
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
It is an attack on the cruel idea that work confers dignity and therefore that people who don’t work—the old, the disabled—lack value. On the contrary, dignity is intrinsic to all human beings, and in designing a work regime rigged for the profit of the few and the exhaustion of the many, we have failed to honor one another’s humanity.
The Baffler • The New Neurasthenia
its hazard lights bleating carmine auras into the morning mist.
David Shafer • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Not handsome in a to-die-for way, just this monstrous radiance of ordinary health—a commodity rare, and thus valuable, in Baltimore.