Thursday, October 25, 2007
Chaw.
So, aside from more Bell Jar and a few instances of curling up in fetal position on my bed and closing my eyes while Itzakh Perlman and Vladimir Ashkenazy played sonata no. 7, feeling like floating up to the ceiling fan and being whirled into bits, there you have my whole day. Essentially.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Vonnegut
What I've gleaned (UGLY WORD!) so far, so far.
"a cosmic charley horse in the sinews of Destiny"
"if there is a God, He sure hates people. That's all I can say."
"To him, plagiarism was what Trout would have called a mopery, 'indecent exposure in the presence of a blind person of the same sex'"
"Allie's kind of porno: people deprived of dignified postures by gravity instead of sex"
"When will you ever learn that nobody cares anything about you, you, you, you boring, insignificant piece of poop? Your whole problem is thinking you matter! Get over that, or sashay your stuck-up butt the hell out of here!"
"Just because you're talented, that doesn't mean you have to do something with it."
"Beware of gods bearing gifts."
"...how comforting and encouraging the make-believe of religion can be for common folk."
"He wasn't remotely crazy. He would later say of his performance: 'It was the world that had suffered the nervous breakdown. I was just having fun in a nightmare, arguing with an imaginary editor about the advertising budget, and about who should play whom in the movie, and personal appearances on TV shows and so on, perfectly harmless funny stuff.' His behavior was so outre that a genuine bag lady passing by asked him, 'Are you OK, honey?' To which Trout replied with all possible gusto, 'Ting-a-ling! Ting-a-ling!'"
"Of native talent itself I say in speeches: 'If you go to a big city, and a university is a big city, you are bound to run into Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Stay home, stay home.'"
"To put it another way: no matter what a young person thinks he or she is really hot stuff at doing, he or she is sooner or later going to run into somebody in the same field who will cut him or her a new asshole, so to speak."
"'Skip said you cut him a new asshole'... Furthermore, life being the Darwinian experiment, or 'crock of shit', as Trout liked to call it, Roger himself had surely departed more than one tennis tournament having, like Skip, undergone a colostomy to his self-regard."
"a cosmic charley horse in the sinews of Destiny"
"if there is a God, He sure hates people. That's all I can say."
"To him, plagiarism was what Trout would have called a mopery, 'indecent exposure in the presence of a blind person of the same sex'"
"Allie's kind of porno: people deprived of dignified postures by gravity instead of sex"
"When will you ever learn that nobody cares anything about you, you, you, you boring, insignificant piece of poop? Your whole problem is thinking you matter! Get over that, or sashay your stuck-up butt the hell out of here!"
"Just because you're talented, that doesn't mean you have to do something with it."
"Beware of gods bearing gifts."
"...how comforting and encouraging the make-believe of religion can be for common folk."
"He wasn't remotely crazy. He would later say of his performance: 'It was the world that had suffered the nervous breakdown. I was just having fun in a nightmare, arguing with an imaginary editor about the advertising budget, and about who should play whom in the movie, and personal appearances on TV shows and so on, perfectly harmless funny stuff.' His behavior was so outre that a genuine bag lady passing by asked him, 'Are you OK, honey?' To which Trout replied with all possible gusto, 'Ting-a-ling! Ting-a-ling!'"
"Of native talent itself I say in speeches: 'If you go to a big city, and a university is a big city, you are bound to run into Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Stay home, stay home.'"
"To put it another way: no matter what a young person thinks he or she is really hot stuff at doing, he or she is sooner or later going to run into somebody in the same field who will cut him or her a new asshole, so to speak."
"'Skip said you cut him a new asshole'... Furthermore, life being the Darwinian experiment, or 'crock of shit', as Trout liked to call it, Roger himself had surely departed more than one tennis tournament having, like Skip, undergone a colostomy to his self-regard."
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