- Looking at beetles and ants.
- The Politics of the Rhizosphere.
- On pets and friendship and on pets and friendship.
- 500 yards from where I sit typing this sentence.
- Donald Trump is a very, very American American.
- This is for anyone asserting Hillary Clinton wouldn't take America to brink of war over a personal scandal.
- Futile but serving a purpose. Confession: I know shit about Syria except everyone sucks.
- And Chicken Little, a reference librarian here, sent out an email this morning asking for GUPD to hold a training session in survival should DC be bombed.
- Psychological weapons of mass persuasion.
- Births.
- Israel and annexation by lawfare.
- Yes, a petty duh, but watch him rage against her during her 2020 POTUS campaign.
- The most essential variable in our training to upgrades in invisible fencing is via our regular reeducation in the standard duhs, I have told you this more than three times.
- Vollmann interview.
- I'm more than convinced I'm the only person to read front to back The Dying Grass and I've read it goddamn twice and will a third time in 2019.
- Is why the I'm telling you three times thing is a deliberate tic.
- I will still buy you a copy, you don't have to finish, just honestly try.
- Excerpt from Vollmann's new two cinderblock non-fiction on climate change
- which I will not be buying and will not read
- (once I would have bought it and not read it, fool me, who *knows* I can't read non-fiction).
- Dan reviews Ann Quin's The Unmapped Country.
- I finished Murnane's A Million Windows but I want to reread the the last five sections again before not writing about it here, but next, Hawthorne?
- Reminder: Guided by Voices / all Pollard projects reinstated within the past year to rightful spot as Third of Three Permanent Seats in My Sillyass Deserted Island Five Game.
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Before the Witness Can Answer I Receive a TRANSMISSION On High
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about pets and friendship - i have begun to read Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut's book How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary scientists and a Siberian tale of jump-started evolution - i am enjoying it very much
ReplyDeleteabout Vollman's The Dying Grass - a 2015 review in the washpost says
It progresses without quotations marks and with trains of thought and interior dialogue set off by indents and further indents when a thought is interrupted by another. One must learn how to read this novel, how to chase the thread, just as Howard and his crew must learn the language of the plains. For us, for the Nez Perce and for Chief Joseph’s band, the ruthless pedagogy stretches on for what feels like an eternity and is followed by glossaries, addenda, indexes and a list of characters that reads like a Homeric catalogue of ships.
But I tell you now: Get over it. Because if you do, you will have given yourself the reading experience of a lifetime.
https://tinyurl.com/yazhq9g3
I am telling you three times: there is not a day that goes by I didn't think still about this novel....
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